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

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Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009

The 2009 edition of the Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, billed as the oldest and largest gay film festival in the American Southwest, will take place from Sept. 8-13
Among the screening films are:

Writer-director Caspar Andreas‘ Between Love & Goodbye, in which two lovers, Marcel (Justin Tensen) and Kyle (Simon Miller), find their happiness seriously threatened once Kyle’s former prostitute transgender sister (Rob Harmon) moves in with them.

Fred M. Caruso’s The Big Gay Musical, the story of two actors, Paul (Daniel Robinson) and Eddie (Joey Dudding), whose private lives mirror their stage roles in a play called "Adam and Steve, Just the Way God Made ‘em": while Paul searches for True Love, Eddie struggles with [...]