Outfest 2006 Winners
by Andre Soares
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’s 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.
List of winners at the 2006 Outfest
Winners at the 2006 Jerusalem Film Festival
Great To Be Nominated: Fiddler on the Roof
Atlanta Film Festival 2006 Winners
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