2006 Outfest – Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Awards
Outfest 2006 was held between July 6-17, 2007.
Among the winners of the 2006 Outfest – the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – were:
Ned Farr's The Gymnast, the story of a former gymnast who falls in love with a younger woman, was chosen as the Outstanding American Narrative Feature. (It also won the Audience Award for Best First Narrative Film.)
The Outstanding International Narrative Feature Award was given to Amnon Buchbinder's Canadian dramatic comedy Whole New Thing, about an androgynous thirteen-year-old (Aaron Webber) who develops a crush on his English teacher (Daniel MacIvor).
The Outstanding Documentary Feature Award went to Malcolm Ingram's Small Town Gay Bar, which depicts small-town prejudice against gays who congregate at their local bar.
The Audience Award for Best Narrative Film was shared by two films dealing with forbidden love: Katherine Brooks' Loving Annabelle, inspired by Leontine Sagan's 1931 drama Mädchen in Uniform, and starring Diane Gaidry as a Catholic school teacher who falls in love with her student (Erin Kelly), and Christian Faure's Un amour à taire / A Love to Hide (left), which has Jérémie Renier and Bruno Todeschini hiding their feelings in Nazi-occupied Paris.
In the acting categories, Michael Carbonaro was Best Actor for in Another Gay Movie, and Diane Gaidry was Best Actress in Loving Annabelle.
Grand Jury Awards:
Outstanding American Narrative Feature: THE GYMNAST directed by Ned Farr
Outstanding International Narrative Feature: WHOLE NEW THING directed by Amnon Buchbinder
Outstanding Documentary Feature: SMALL TOWN GAY BAR directed by Malcolm Ingram
Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film: Michael Carbonaro in ANOTHER GAY MOVIE
Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film: Diane Gaidry in LOVING ANNABELLE
Outstanding Screenwriting: Q. Allan Brocka and Philip Pierce for BOY CULTURE
Audience Awards:
Outstanding First Narrative Feature: THE GYMNAST directed by Ned Farr
Outstanding Narrative Feature (tie): LOVING ANNABELLE directed by Katherine Brooks and UN AMOUR A TAIRE / A LOVE TO HIDE directed Christian Faure
Outstanding Documentary Feature: CAMP OUT directed by Kirk Marcolina and Larry Grimaldi
Outstanding Narrative Short: AVAILABLE MEN directed by David Dean Bottrell
Outstanding Documentary Short: MY CRAZY LIFE directed by Carlos Arguello and Enzo Ybarra
Outstanding Soundtrack: PIC UP THE MIC directed by Alex Hinton
Special Programming Awards:
Freedom Award:
Dan Hunt, Janet Baus and Reid Williams, Directors, CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Outstanding Emerging Talent: Ash Christian, Director, FAT GIRLS
Outstanding Artistic Achievement: Ho Tam, Director, BOOKS OF JAMES
U.S. Dramatic Features Competition Jury: Craig Chester, Mia Riverton, Ernest Hardy
International Dramatic Features Competition Jury: Matthew Fox, Robert Hawk, Doris Yeung
Documentary Features Competition Jury: Shannon Kelley, Jennifer Morris, J. Karen Thomas
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