Outfest 2010: Call for Submissions for Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
PRESS RELEASE
CALL FOR SCREENWRITING LAB SUBMISSIONS
Outfest Screenwriting Lab Spring 2010 – Submissions Now Open
Submission early deadline: January 23, 2010; final deadline: February 5, 2010.
Continuing Outfest’s commitment to supporting LGBT-themed films from conception to exhibition, this Lab nurtures screenwriters and promotes screenplays featuring LGBT characters and/or themes. The authors of five screenplays are invited to participate in a dynamic three-day workshop in Los Angeles in the Spring 2009, working closely with established mentor writers.
Submit at www.outfest.org/accessla/swl.html and www.outfest.org
CALL FOR OUTFEST 2010 FILM/VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
Outfest 2010, July 8-18: The 28th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Submission early deadline: January 23, 2010; [...]
by Andre Soares | January 22, 2010
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Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Baby Jane by Billy Clift (top); Shirley Knight, Liz Jahren in Not Fade Away (middle); Homewrecker by Paul Hart (bottom)
Reeling 2009, this year’s edition of the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, kicked off on Thu., Nov. 5, with a screening of Casper Andreas‘ The Big Gay Musical.
Upcoming feature films include:
Billy Clift’s Baby Jane, a recreation of What Ever Happened with Baby Jane? starring real drag queens playing the two female leads — as opposed to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis playing drag queens playing the two female leads.
Florencia Manovil’s romantic drama Fiona’s Script, about an insecure bisexual woman who reluctantly enters into a relationship with a ladies’ tomboy.
Rob Williams‘ Make the Yuletide Gay, a family Christmas [...]
by Andre Soares | November 7, 2009
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Tags: Baby Jane, Fiona's Script, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Hollywood je t'aime, Homewrecker, Lesbian Interest, Make the Yuletide Gay, Not Fade Away, Reeling
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Awards
2009 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: Oct. 16-25, 2009
A major box-office hit in its native Norway, Stian Kristiansen’s The Man Who Loved Yngve chronicles the (homo)sexual awakening of a small-town male teenager after another male teen starts attending his school.
JURY AWARDS
BEST FEATURE FILM: The Man Who Loved Yngve, directed by Stian Kristiansen
FEATURE FILM HONORABLE MENTION: I Can’t Think Straight, directed by Shamim Sarif
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement, directed by Gréta Olafsdóttir and Susan Muska
BEST SHORT FILM: Diana, directed by Aleem Khan
SHORT FILM HONOURABLE MENTION: Claiming the Title, directed by Jonathan Joiner and Robert H. Martin
MOST INNOVATIVE SHORT: The Apple, directed by Emilie Jouvet
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Best [...]
by Anna Robinson | October 27, 2009
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Tags: Claiming the Title, Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement, Film Awards, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, I Can't Think Straight, Lesbian Interest, Prayers for Bobby, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, The Man Who Loved Yngve, Waxie Moon
Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009
Among the highlights at the 2009 Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which runs Oct. 9-15 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are:
Tom Murray’s Amancio: Two Faces on a Tombstone, about the brutal murder of Yuma-based drag performer Amancio Corrales, whose body was found floating in the Colorado River. The local police didn’t seem all that interested in solving the case, but Yuma resident Michael Baughman became determined to keep the hate crime in the public eye.
Chaim Elbaum’s Israeli short And Thou Shalt Love tells the story of a young man studying in the special “Hesder” program for orthodox soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. Much to his chagrin, said young man eventually comes to realization that he [...]
by Andre Soares | October 5, 2009
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Tags: And Thou Shalt Not Love, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Girl Seeks Girl, Javier Beltran, Little Ashes, Robert Pattinson, Shank, Simon Pearce, Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Country Teacher, The War Boys
Out on Film 2009: Atlanta’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Stephan Bender, Maximillian Roeg in Dream Boy (top); Sharon Gless in Hannah Free (bottom)
Out on Film, Atlanta’s gay & lesbian film festival, kicked off last night with a screening of Casper Andreas‘ The Big Gay Musical. The festival runs until Oct. 8.
Among the screening films are:
Glenn Gaylord’s Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat, featuring hunky guys, some identity mix-ups, a three-way sex scene, and Mink Stole.
John G. Young’s Rivers Wash Over Me, about a gay teen New Yorker who is forced to move in with his family in the rural South.
Ellen Siedler and Megan Siler’s And Then Came Lola, a lesbian-themed version of the German hit Run, Lola, Run.
Doug Sebastian’s A Cross Burning in Willacoochee, a documentary about the [...]
by Andre Soares | October 3, 2009
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Tags: A Cross Burning in Willacoochee, And Then Came Lola, Andy Warhol, Blow Job, Dream Boy, Eating Out 3, Eric Debets, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Hannah Free, Hollywood je t'aime, Lesbian Interest, Maximillian Roeg, My Hustler, Out on Film, Shank, Sharon Gless, Stephan Bender