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Gender queries: "Straightlaced," Bay Area filmmaker Debra Chasnoff's new doc on high schoolers, world premieres at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Jan. 14.

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Debra Chasnoff goes back to school with "Straightlaced"

By Judy Stone

In eighth grade, Debra Chasnoff was already a tall, attractive brunette with beautiful blue eyes, who yearned to be noticed by a boy named Sammy but he didn’t have eyes for her. Although she had a crush on him, what he saw and wrote in the class yearbook was "To the girl who gets As in French class. I don’t know how or why."

Now a 51-year old prize-winning filmmaker and the mother of two boys, 14 and 20, Chasnoff laughed as she recalled being "devastated" by Sammy’s comment. "The thing he had noticed about me was that I was really smart and not that I was someone appealing to him. I felt a lot of pressure because I was smarter than you were supposed to be if you were a girl."

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