Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival/Fort Lauderdale
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Awards Sponsored by HBO
ANNUAL BEST OF THE FESTIVAL AWARDS
This year’s jury:Carol CoombesFestival/Program Director Eric Freedman Video Artist and Associate Professor of Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University Saundra Grace Writer/historian & MGLFF Executive Board member Martin Haro Writer, Florida International University Jaie Laplante Associate Director of South Beach Food and Wine Festival & MGLFF Board member Fran Levey Executive Producer, Rimon Productions Dennis Williams HBO Manager Segment Marketing $1,000 MGLFF Career Achievement Award 2008 sponsored by HBO awarded to Christine Vachon $5,000 MGLFF/FLGLFF BEST FICTION FEATURE sponsored by HBO awarded to the director List of eligible Fiction Feature Films: Before I Forget (France) Boystown (Spain) Breakfast with Scot (Canada) Ciao (U.S) Lokas (Mexico/Chile) Love My Life (Japan) Otto; or, Up with Dead People (Canada/Germany) Saturn in Opposition (Italy) Savage Grace (U.S/Spain) Save Me (U.S) Shelter Me (Italy/France) Stealth (Poland/Switzerland) The Edge of Heaven (Germany/Turkey) The New World (France) The Secrets (Israel/France) The World Unseen (U.K./South Africa) Tru Loved (U.S) Were the World Mine (U.S) $1,500 MGLFF/FLGLFF BEST DOCUMENTARY sponsored by HBO awarded to the director List of eligible Documentary Films: A Jihad for Love (See page 71) Ask Not (U.S) Be Like Others (See page 42) Bi The Way (U.S) Call Me Troy (U.S) Chris and Don: A Love Story (U.S) Derek (U.K) |
List of eligible Documentary Films Continued: Eleven Minutes (U.S) In Sickness and in Health (U.S) Jerusalem is Proud to Present (Israel) Pageant (U.S) By The Way (U.S) Sex Positive (U.S) She’s A Boy I Knew (Canada) Through Thick and Thin (U.S.) Voodoo Woman (Canada/Cuba) PAST CAREER ACHEIVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS SPONSORED BY HBO 2007: Eytan Fox (Israel) 2006: Francois Ozon (France) 2005: Gregg Araki (U.S.) 2007 FESTIVAL WINNERS sponsored by HBO $5,000 MGLFF JURY AWARD FOR BEST FICTION FEATURE The Bubble (Israel) Directed by Eytan Fox $1,000 MGLFF AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD FOR BEST FICTION FEATURE The Bubble (Israel) – Joint Winner Directed by Eytan Fox The Chinese Botanists Daughters (France/Canada) – Joint Winner Directed by Dai Sijie $1,500 MGLFF JURY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY Red Without Blue (U.S.) Directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sils $1,000 MGLFF AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY Emile Norman – by his own design (U.S) Directed by Will Parrinello $500 MGLFF AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT Float (Bahamas) Directed by Kareem Mortimer Sunday, May 6th Closing Night Party Awards $1,000 MGLFF/FLGLFF Audience Favorite Award for Best Fiction Feature sponsored by HBO $1,000 MGLFF/FLGLFF Audience Favorite Award for Best Documentary sponsored by HBO $500 MGLFF/FLGLFF Audience Favorite Award for Best Short sponsored by HBO |
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Dale Stine.com Opening Night Gala The Picture of Dorian Gray, 2007 JURY #2 - YOU - all films are competition entries (unless listed) across Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals It’s YOUR Festival. Which film did you think was the best? The film with the highest overall average score will take the prize in one of the categories listed below. Vote carefully, your vote does count. We will announce the Audience choices and give out the following prizes at our Closing Night Gala Party at MAS following the screening of Were the World Mine on Sunday May 6th. |
Dennis Williams, HBO Manager Segment Marketing will
present $1,000 to the three winning filmmakers of the
SHOUT LGBT script competition at the Closing Gala
screening on Sunday May 4th. The filmmakers each
received $15,000 in production costs. You can see the
World premieres of the three selected titles on Friday
May 2nd prior to the screening of Tru Loved See page
69 for more details. There are 46 short films across the MGLFF/FLGLFF this year – will you see them all? (NOTE: the PlanetOut Short Movie Award winning films are ineligible for audience voting as they have already been declared winners).  The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film
Festival (and the Fort Lauderdale
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
presented in conjunction with the MGLFF) with 14
partner international gay and lesbian film festivals is
officially recognized as a nominating festival for the Iris
Prize. The prize, valued at $25,00, and generously
sponsored by the United Kingdom post production
sector, will allow one winning filmmaker to make their
next short film in the UK. The winner of the
MGLFF/FLGFF Audience Favorite Short sponsored by
HBO will automatically be nominated for this
prestigious competition which will be announced
October 2008 in Wales. For more details see
www.irisprize.org
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