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, Film Festivals, 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
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 [...]
by Andre Soares | September 19, 2009
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Tags: An Englishman in New York, And Then Came Lola, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Handsome Harry, Lesbian Interest, Queen of Brazil, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, The Man Who Loved Yngve
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
Outfest Awards 2009
2009 Outfest Awards
2009 Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: July 9-19
2009 Outfest winners
JURY AWARDS
Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature Film
MISSISSIPPI DAMNED, Directed by Tina Mabry
Outstanding International Dramatic Feature Film
THE MAN WHO LOVED YNGVE, Directed by Stian Kristiansen
Outstanding Documentary Feature Film
OFF AND RUNNING, Directed by Nicole Opper
Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film
Derrick L. Middleton (above, left) in RIVERS WASH OVER ME
Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film
Laura Harring in DROOL
Outstanding Screenwriting
E.E. Cassidy and Bruce Pavalon, WE ARE THE MODS
Outstanding Documentary Short Film
FIRST AND LOVELISS, Directed by Shaun Kadlec & Deb Tullman
Outstanding Dramatic Short Film
THE BATH, Directed by Lee Mi-rang
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Outstanding Dramatic Feature Film
CHEF’S SPECIAL, Directed by Nacho G. Velilla
Outstanding Documentary [...]
