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
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
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
