Dustin Lance Black Shares The ‘Emotionally Brutal’ Process Behind Creating ‘Mama’s Boy’

Dustin Lance Black in HBO’s “Mama’s Boy.” TRAVERS JACOBS/HBO Viewers may be surprised to find only fleeting references to Dustin Lance Black’s game-changing Hollywood career in “Mama’s Boy,” his new documentary. Instead, the film ― which premiered last week at NewFest, New York’s annual LGBTQ film festival, ahead of its HBO debut this Tuesday ― zooms in on the Oscar-winning “Milk” screenwriter’s relationship with his mother, Roseanna “Anne” Bisch. Born into a Southern family that lived below the poverty line and paralyzed from childhood polio, Bisch overcame fractured marriages and other personal setbacks to become a medical technologist for the… Read Full Article