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Publicity Contact:
Jim Dobson
INDIE PR (818) 753-0700, (818) 753-0709 fax
press@mglff.com

All current official press releases regarding the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival are listed below.

March 2008

March Screening: XXY

January 2008

January Screening: The Witnesses

December 2007

December Screening: The Walker

October 2007

October Screening: For the BIBLE tells me so

September 2007

September Screening: Kate Clinton - 25th Anniversary Tour - Documentary

August 2007

August Screening: Mala Noche

May 2007

Shout: The HBO Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Short Film Competition
HBO® partnered with Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF), and the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF)…
Read more…

April 2007

"WayOUT", Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Centerpiece Party on Española Way!
The MGLFF Centerpiece Party is a "WayOUT" maze of video and performance art along Española Way!… after the festival centerpiece film
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March 2007

2007 MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS PROGRAM LINE-UP:
100 International films to compete during 9th annual event

The celebrated 9th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, presented by Avis Rent-a-Car, The Flamingo South Beach and Sundance Channel has unveiled the line-up of the best gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender films that will be featured during the 10 day event from April 27 to May 6…
Read more…

January 2007

January Screening: Paper Dolls
A poignant true story about a group of care-givers, living in Tel Aviv, who have built new lives for themselves after being cast out of their families because of their sexual orientation.
More Information: Paper Dolls

November 2006

Press Release: Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival to host screening of Coffee Date

November Screening: Coffee Date
A refreshingly sweet movie that reminds us life could always be more complicated.
More information: Coffee Date

October 2006

October Screening: Shortbus
An amazingly playful, pansexual study of modern relationships set in Manhattan between the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the power outages of summer 2003
More information:Shortbus.

September 2006

September Screening: Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
This sequel picks up after the first Eating Out, with Kyle (recording sensation Jim Verraros) back as the lovable gay misfit, hoping for the man of his dreams, and ready to do just about anything to get him.

August 2006

August Screening: Quinceañera
A miraculous exploration of racial, class, and sexual tensions colliding in a working-class Latino neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification.
More Information: Quinceañera

July 2006

July Screening: Little Miss Sunshine
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE tells the story of the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families ever seen on motion picture screens. The film stars Steve Carell (of SNL, The 40 Year Old VIrgin, and The Office fame) as Frank, a gay Proustian scholar who is depressed because his hunky young student lover has left him for another male professor in his own department.
More Information: Little Miss Sunshine

June 2006

June Screening: Illusive Tracks
The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival kicks off its Monthly Screening Series on Tuesday, June 13th with an encore presentation of ILLUSIVE TRACKS, the sleeper favorite from our 2005 festival. Still without any US Distributor, this may be your only chance to see this wonderfully over-the-top Swedish gem.
More Information: Illusive Tracks

May 2006

Press Release: 2006 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Awards Announcement

March 2006

Announcement: 2006 MGLFF Career Achievement Award: François Ozon

Press Release: 2006 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Unveils Program Line-Up

Special Event: Guys and Balls
If "misfit gay sports comedies" can be called a whole new genre of film, then Guys and Balls takes that genre to a whole new level of hilarity.
More Information: Guys and Balls

February 2006

Press Release: 2006 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Announces Venues, Opening Night Gala and TLA Entertainment Group Tribute Award

January 2006

Special Event: Imagine Me & You
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival celebrates the New Year with…
A FREE GIFT TO OUR MEMBERS!!
More Information: Imagine Me & You
Special Event: Gay Sex in the 70's
Broward Membership Drive Screening: GAY SEX IN THE 70's
More Information: Gay Sex in the 70's

December 2005

December Screening: Brokeback Mountain
MGLFF celebrates 21st WHITE PARTY with FILM NIGHT
From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Sense & Sensibility; The Wedding Banquet) comes one of the most anticipated films of the year, Brokeback Mountain.
More Information: Brokeback Mountain

November 2005

November Screening: Transamerica
MGLFF celebrates 21st WHITE PARTY with FILM NIGHT
In a far cry from her role as Lynette in "Desperate Housewives", Felicity Huffman plays Bree, a male-to-female transsexual, already passing as a woman, who is days away from what she has been dreaming about her whole life.
More Information: Transamerica

October 2005

October Screening: Noah's Arc
Noah's Arc -- A ground-breaking television event, NOAH'S ARC is the new original black gay comedy/drama from Patrick-Ian Polk.
More Information: Noah's Arc

September 2005

September Screening: Cote d'Azur
Cote d'Azur -- The Opening Night Film of the 2005 San Francisco & Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals is coming to Miami!
More Information: Cote d'Azur

August 2005

Press Release: Entries Sought for 7th Annual PlanetOut Short Movie Awards
Special LBT Women Membership Drive Screening: Fingersmith
Fingersmith -- in another North American premiere for this special Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) LBT Women's Event, comes the handsome production of Fingersmith, a 3-part mini-series.
More Information: Fingersmith
August Screening: Dorian Blues
Dorian Blues -- A coming-out film - but with a new twist!
More Information: Dorian Blues

July 2005

July Screening: Inconscientes (Unconscious)
Inconscientes (Unconscious) is a zany, zippy, sophisticated Spanish farce completely daring in its use of repressed homosexual desires to poke meditative fun at what we think we know about the intricacies of our egos!
More Information: Inconscientes (Unconscious)

June 2005

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) Kicks Off 8th Season - Click Here

May 2005

7th Annual MGLFF 2005 Award Winners - Click Here

April 2005

MGLFF and Air Canada invite you to enter to
   Win 2 Roundtrip Business Class Tickets to ASIA
This April 22nd, at the 7th Annual MGLFF Opening Night Gala at the Bank of America Tower Skylobby in downtown Miami, one lucky person will win 2 Roundtrip Business Class Tickets to ASIA on board an AIR CANADA flight.
More Information: Enter To Win

March 2005

Press Release: 2005 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Unveils Program Line-Up

Festival At Sea March 12 - 19
MGLFF in partnership with ATLANTIS EVENTS presents the first-ever "MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL AT SEA" aboard the ATLANTIS all-gay Exotic Southern Caribbean Cruise departing from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
More Information: click here

March Screening: Sex, Politics & Cocktails March 2nd
The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival teams up with the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force to co-present the "kick-off" event for WINTER PARTY 2005! Wednesday, March 2nd at 8pm, BIGGER, LONGER and UNCUT, the feature film version of Sex, Politics & Cocktails. Screening will be preceeded by the Winter Welcome Party at 6pm
More Information: click here

February 2005

February Screening: Eating Out
EATING OUT is the sweet and sexy feature film debut from Q. Allen Brocka, the award winning director of the popular short films with Lego heros, RICK AND STEVE: THE HAPPIEST GAY COUPLE IN THE WORLD.
More Information: Eating Out

January 2005

January Screening: Beautiful Boxer
Based on the real-life story of Thailand's famed transgender kick boxer Parinya Charoenphol (affectionately named Nong Toom), Beautiful Boxer is a captivating action drama about a boy who believes the he's a girl trapped inside a boy's body since childhood.
More Information: Beautiful Boxer

November 2004

November Screening: Straight-Jacket
A perfect treat for the holiday season, the cracked genius of writer/director Richard Day returns for a special one-night-only theatrical return engagement of Straight-Jacket, a satire of gay male movie stars in 1950s Hollywood. Starring Matt Lescher, star of NBC's "Good Morning, Miami", as Rock Hudson stand-in "Guy Stone".
More Information: Straight-Jacket

October 2004

October Screening: TESTOSTERONE
This special evening is made up of an advance preview screening of Testosterone starring former Calvin Klein underwear supermodel Antonio Sabato Jr., followed by a private house party in a waterfront home on Dilido Island with more latin drama lined up then you can possibly imagine!
More Information: TESTOSTERONE

Press Release: SCION TO BE OFFICIAL CAR OF 7th ANNUAL MGLFF

September 2004

September Screening: SUGAR
MGLFF's monthly screening for September is the Florida premiere of the new Canadian film Sugar, directed by John Palmer and with a screenplay co-written by yours truly, Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival manager Jaie Laplante. Sugar stars Brendan Fehr and Andre Noble>
More Information: SUGAR

Press Release: MGLFF HOSTS 6th ANNUAL PLANETOUT.COM SHORT MOVIE AWARDS

May 2004

Press Release: 2004 MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS

March 2004

Press Release: 2004 MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS PROGRAM LINE-UP

October 2003

The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival offered a wonderful Angel Grant.

2003 Archival Press Releases