Gays Did Sundance

by Andre Soares

 

Quinceanera (2006), directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, starring Emily Rios, Jesse GarciaIn the Salt Lake Tribune, Christy Karras talks about a few of the 40 or so films with important gay/bi/tri/multi characters that were screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Among those, are Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’s Little Miss Sunshine, one of the festival’s most popular hits; Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer’s Quinceañera (see photo), winner of the best (U.S.) dramatic film award; Malcolm Ingram’s Small Town Gay Bar, set in a small community in Mississippi; and Maria Maggenti’s Puccini for Beginners, which revolves around a woman romantically entangled with both a man and another woman.

Full list of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival winners

Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2005 Golden Globe Award winners and nominees

List of the British Academy of Film 2005 nominees

 

 

by Andre Soares | January 31, 2006 | Filed Under American Cinema / Hollywood, Film, Film Festivals, Gay & Lesbian 

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One Response to “Gays Did Sundance”

  1. Ricardo on March 21st, 2008 2:12 am

    Quinceanera deserves to be better known. A sweet little film, much better than the ballyhooed Little Miss Sunshine.

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