Festival Data:

• Established: 1986
• Genre: Gay - Lesbian (click to see)

• Competitive
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (CGLFF) is Copenhagen and Denmark's oldest film festival founded in 1986 by the National Association for Gay and Lesbians.

In 2002, the Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival took some new initiatives, including a jury, the distribution of film prizes, a mid term partying, a QUEER seminar and school presentations. In 2003, CGLFF organized a printed a screenplay competition. In cooperation with The Danish Film Institute, CGLFF produced the film "Who than you are."

CGLFF has developed a large education program, annually engaging more than  500 primary and secondary school students in the discussion about homosexuality, sex and tolerance in film and society.

Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is a competitive festival offering a grand jury award to the best feature films in the competition program, as well as jury awards for best shorts and best documentary films, and audience awards for best film. The awards are given directly to the directors of the winning films.

Chosen by the festival jury: Best feature film: € 1.000, Best short film: € 500, Best documentary film: € 500

Chosen by the festival audience: The special audience price: € 1.000

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: Beta-SP, Digi-Beta, 16mm, 35mm, DVCam
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.cglff.dk/ film_submission/