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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Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Sonia Sebastian’s Girl Seeks Girl (top); Glenn Gaylord’s Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat (middle); Jochen Hick’s The Good American (bottom)
The 2009 edition of the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival runs from Oct. 16-25.
Among the screening films are:
Bette Gordon’s Handsome Harry, starring Jamey Sheridan as a 52-year-old, divorced ex-Navy man who, following an encounter with an old — and dying — Navy buddy (Steve Buscemi), decides to face an uncomfortable issue from his past. Also in the cast: Campbell Scott, Aidan Quinn, Titus Welliver, and John Savage.
Two documentaries on transvestites/transsexuals: Fernanda Tornaghi and Ricardo Bruno’s Queen of Brazil, about the 32-year-old Miss Gay Brasil beauty pageant, and Queens at Heart, about pre-Stonewall transsexuals. According to the festival’s [...]
