Outfest 2009 Winners
The tale of a poor backwater family struggling against poverty, addiction, and assorted personal and social maladies, Tina Mabry’s Mississippi Damned was the jury’s pick for best U.S. narrative film at this year’s edition of Outfest, Los Angeles’ gay and lesbian film festival.
Among the other Outfest 2009 jury winners were Stian Kristiansen’s The Man Who Loved Yngve, the late 1980s tale (written by Tore Renberg) about a Norwegian teenager who unexpectedly finds himself madly in love with a handsome tennis player, which was chosen as the festival’s best international narrative feature; Nicole Opper’s documentary Off and Running, about a young woman trying to discover the identity of her biological mother; and best actress Laura Harring and best actor [...]
by Andre Soares | July 20, 2009
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Tags: Chef's Special, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Javier Cámara, Lesbian Interest, Mississippi Damned, Nacho G. Velilla, Outfest, Outfest 2009, The Man Who Loved Yngve
Outfest 2009: CHEF’S SPECIAL, PTOWN DIARIES, Daniel Craig
Outfest 2009 hightlights on Saturday, July 18. Synopses from the Outfest website.
Chef’s Special / Fuera de Carta (Sat, Jul 18th 11:00am, DGA 1)
(Spain, 2008, 111 mins)
In Spanish with English subtitles
video
Directed By: Nacho G. Velilla
SCR: Nacho G. Velilla, Oriol Capel, Antonio Sanchez & David Sanchez
Gay type-A-plus chef Maxi (Javier Cámara, TALK TO HER) is too busy trying to run his chic restaurant and dreaming of a write-up in the Michelin guide to have a personal life. But when his estranged wife dies – leaving him two kids to raise – and a gorgeous Argentine soccer player (Benjamín Vicuña) moves in next door, Maxi may have to change the menu. This tasty Spanish comedy [...]
by Andre Soares | July 16, 2009
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Tags: Chef's Special, Daniel Craig, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Javier Cámara, Los Angeles Screenings, Love Is the Devil, Outfest, Outfest 2009
Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Javier Cámara, CHEF’S SPECIAL
Nacho G. Velilla’s Spanish comedy Fuera de Carta / Chef’s Special opened the 24th edition of the Torino GLBT FIlm Festival last night.
In Chef’s Special, a highly regarded chef (Javier Cámara, above, with festival programmer Cosimo Santoro and Velilla) working at a trendy restaurant in Chueca, Madrid’s gay neighborhood, believes that life is just perfect. It doesn’t take long, however, for imperfection to knock at his door in the form of his children from a former marriage and of a hunky ex-soccer player from Argentina.
The festival’s opening ceremony was hosted by actress Lucia Ocone, and featured a special appearance by veteran actress Franca Valeri. Valeri can be seen in Vittorio Caprioli’s Lions Lying in the [...]
by Andre Soares | April 24, 2009
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Tags: A Choice of Love, Chef's Special, Eirik Andreas Sandaker, Ferzan Ozpetek, Film Festivals, Franca Valeri, Fuera de carta, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Islam, Javier Cámara, Lucia Ocone, Nacho G. Velilla, Photos, Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009
Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Feature Lineup
Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Feature Lineup
Feature Films IN COMPETITION
Rückenwind (Light Gradient) by Jan Krüger (Germany, 2009)
friday 24 april, 18.30 – saturday 25 april, 14.30
El patio de mi cárcel (My Prison Yard) by Belén Macías (Spain, 2008)
friday 24 april, 22.45 – saturday 25 april, 11.30
Gu huo (Fire in Silence) by Shen Weiwei (China, 2008)
saturday 25 april, 18 – sunday 26 april, 14.15
Leonera (Lion’s Den) by Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil, 2008)
saturday 25 april, 20 – monday 27 april, 11
Selda (The Inmate) by Ellen Ramos, Paolo Villaluna (Philippines, 2008)
saturday 25 [...]
by Andre Soares | April 23, 2009
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Tags: Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild, Auraeus Solito, Beautiful Crazy, Belen Macias, Born in 68, Boy, Chef's Special, Daybreak, Ellen Ramos, Film Festivals, Fire in Silence, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Jacques Martineau, Jan Kruger, Javier Cámara, Leonera, Lesbian Interest, Lesbians, Light Gradient, Lola Dueñas, My Prison Yard, Olivier Ducastel, Pablo Trapero, Paolo Villaluna, Rabioso sol rabioso cielo, Selda, Shen Weiwei, Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009: WRANGLER: ANATOMY OF AN ICON, CHEF’S SPECIAL
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Sunday, April 5, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
Out Late
Directed by:
Beatrice Alda, Jennifer Brooke
Country:
USA
Year:
2008
Running time:
62min
A truly inspiring and important film about the experiences of LGBT elders, specifically those who have come out in their sixties and seventies. There are stories about coming out in church, discovering The L Word for the first time at eighty and transitioning from male to female after a lifetime in the navy and raising a family. The film movingly explores the difficulties and liberation of discovering sexuality later in life and in particular highlights the often unsuccessful search for life partners in a world that places so much value [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Ander, Benjamin Vicuna, Chef's Special, Cristian Esquivel, Devotee, Film Festivals, Gay Erotica, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Jack Wrangler, Javier Cámara, Jeffrey Schwarz, Lola Dueñas, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London Screenings, Nacho G. Velilla, Out Late, Remi Lange, Roberto Caston, Wrangler: Anatomy Of An Icon
Palm Springs Film Festival 2009: Film Line-Up
PRESS RELEASE
The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival has announced a roster of 210 films, culled from 73 countries for the 2009 Festival. The selection of films for screening includes a total of 77 premieres (14 World, 48 U.S. and 16 North American). Also, 50 of the 67 films submitted for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the Academy Awards will be screened at this year’s Festival, held from January 8-19, 2009. (Complete list of this year’s films)
"Over the course of its first 19 years, this Festival has always celebrated creative expression and embraced a diversity of visions and viewpoints," said Festival Director Darryl Macdonald. "Happily, we are reaching our [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 18, 2008
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Tags: Alien Trespass, Chef's Special, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Film Festivals, Last Chance Harvey, Palm Springs Film Festival, The Burning Plain
