Gay Sex Challenge HUMPDAY Wins John Cassavetes Award: 2010 Spirit Awards
Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard in Humpday
Lynn Shelton’s Humpday, about two guys who decide to have sex with one another so they can take part in an amateur porn competition, won the John Cassavetes Award "given to the best feature made for under $500,000" at the 2010 Spirit Awards ceremony in downtown Los Angeles. Last year, Shelton won the Spirits’ Someone to Watch Award for My Effortless Brilliance.
“We’re not gonna be at the Oscars," Shelton explained in the press room. "So having a forum at this event … is really awesome.”
Photo: Humpday (Magnolia)
by Steve Montgomery | March 5, 2010
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Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: HUMPDAY, PASSENGER SIDE, EMBODIMENT OF EVIL
Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard in Humpday (top); Embodiment of Evil (middle); Joel Bissonnette, Adam Scott in Passenger Side (bottom)
A few highlights today at the Los Angeles Film Festival, currently being held (mostly) in the Westwood Village and at the Westside’s Landmark theater complex. The festival runs until June 28.
Among today’s highlights are:
Passenger Side, one of the recommendations in the L.A. Weekly, which describes the Canadian dramatic comedy as "literate, amusing and unexpectedly moving." Written and directed by Matthew Bissonnette, the film follows two brothers — struggling writer Adam Scott and ex-junkie Joel Bissonnette (Matthew’s brother) — on a road trip throughout the Los Angeles area.
Stella, about a streetwise 11-year-old girl who finds herself [...]