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  • ELVIS AND MADONA
    ELVIS AND MADONA (ELVIS E MADONA)
    1. A film by Marcelo Laffitte
    2. run time 105 minutes

    The lives of a beautiful biker babe and a tall blonde trannie intertwine in this vibrant Rio-set romantic comedy. Elvis is an aspiring young photographer delivering pizzas to make ends meet. Madona's plans for a spectacular drag show have just been dashed when her rotten sometime lover steals all her money.  Elvis and Madona shows the trajectory of these two characters who are chasing their...  (more)

    POSTED FEB 15 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Disarm
    Disarm (Disarm)
    1. A film by Will Faulkner
    2. run time 17 minutes 26 seconds

    A young man goes to the hotel room of an older man he met online for a hook-up. The two men begin to embrace, but each struggles for dominance, leading to a fight. The two men calm and begin to talk with each other, bringing out painful memories from the past, and eventually sharing in something they did not expect: a connection.  (more)

    POSTED JAN 28 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Ciao Meow
    Ciao Meow
    1. A film by Su Goldfish
    2. run time 4 minutes 10 seconds

    Lucy the cat seemed immortal. When she disappeared one rainy night it seemed impossible that she had gone forever. Ciao Meow is a photo essay that tells the story of a very old cat with no ears and a mean disposition, who reigned supreme as part of her queer family. Lucy lived to the fine old age of 21yrs and 6months, a record according to the vet. This charming and at times challenging short...  (more)

    POSTED DEC 20 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Diana
    Diana (Diana)
    1. A film by Aleem Khan
    2. run time 10 minutes 39 seconds

    Diana takes place the day after the Princess of Wales’ death and follows Mohit, an Indian pre-op transsexual on an emotional journey set against the backdrop of a day that shocked a nation and will change his life forever. Rejected by his family in India and working as a prostitute in London to pay for his hormone therapy, Mohit’s past continues to scar his life and he strongly relates to...  (more)

    POSTED NOV 13 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • DELPHINIUM: a childhood portrait of Derek Jarman
    DELPHINIUM: a childhood portrait of Derek Jarman
    1. A film by Matthew Mishory
    2. Raindance Film Festival
    3. September 29 - October 10, 2010
    4. run time 13 minutes

    Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of Derek Jarman’s artistic, sexual, and political awakening in post-War England. Part biographical narrative, part experimental collage, part personal meditation on the most controversial and important modern British artist and activist, the film finds in Jarman’s childhood the stirrings of creative and individual epiphany that...  (more)

    POSTED SEP 24 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Everybody Is Having Sex... But Ryan
    Everybody Is Having Sex... But Ryan
    1. A film by Brian Pelletier
    2. run time 13 minutes 30 seconds

    Ryan is a dancer who just can't seem to get laid. Even his last date ended up going home with his best friend Dustin. All Ryan's dates seem to go well but then leave him with a major case of 'blue-balls'. Eventually, Ryan discovers what he was really looking for was right in front of him all along.  (more)

    POSTED SEP 18 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • The Single Mother
    The Single Mother
    1. A film by Ryan Logan
    2. run time 6 minutes

    Meet The Single Mother - a big-hearted transvestite reincarnation of June Cleaver, who embarks on a perilous journey to obtain the nuclear family featured in his tattered Home & Garden magazines. With the unfortunate predicament of being unable to conceive himself (but not for lack of trying), he pursues increasingly desperate means to procure a child of his own. He attempts adoption. He strives...  (more)

    POSTED JUL 13 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • To Each Her Own
    To Each Her Own
    1. A film by Heather Tobin
    2. run time 109 minutes

    Jess meets Casey a very openly gay woman and quickly the girls form a strong romantic bond which forces Jess to come to terms with her true sexuality risking loosing her family and hurting her bestfriend/husband Trevor.  (more)

    POSTED JUN 02 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Swimming with Lesbians
    Swimming with Lesbians
    1. A film by David B. Marshall
    2. run time 68 minutes

    It has been said, “Gays have a past but no history.” Gays and Lesbians don’t grow up immersed in gay history, it is something they must search for. For those coming of age in the 1950’s, much of significant American gay history is their personal history -- the Mattachine Society, Stonewall, the gay rights movement, psychiatric redefinition of homosexuality, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,...  (more)

    POSTED MAY 27 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • A Far Cry From Home
    A Far Cry From Home
    1. A film by Alan Rowe Kelly
    2. run time 44 minutes

    Alan Rowe Kelly's controversial short horror tale, A FAR CRY FROM HOME, is about a young urban gay couple (Kelly & Don Money) traveling through the NJ wilderness and stop at a rural antique hex store. What they don’t realize is that the backwoods storeowners (Katherine O'Sullivan, Jerry Murdock & Benzy) are a religious sect of homophobic, crazed killers who - under the local rule of the...  (more)

    POSTED JAN 17 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
    Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
    1. A film by Linda Thornburg
    2. run time 126 minutes

    A vivid adaptation of May Sarton’s 1965 landmark novel tells the story of writer Hilary Stevens, who shocked the world in the 1920s with her novel about a love affair between two women. In the 1960s, the aging writer is interviewed by two young reporters who want to know, “Who’s the muse?” Through lushly filmed flashbacks, Hilary recalls the women who have inspired her...  (more)

    POSTED NOV 24 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • You, Me and Him
    You, Me and Him (Café com Leite)
    1. A film by Daniel Ribeiro
    2. Molodist Film Festival of Kiev
    3. October 23 - 31, 2010
    4. run time 18 minutes 10 seconds

    Danilo was about to move out of his parent’s house to go live with his boyfriend, Marcos, when his mom and dad die unexpectedly in an accident. His plans for the future change and he becomes responsible for his 10 year-old brother, Lucas. New bonds are created between these 3 young men. While brothers Danilo and Lucas need to learn everything they didn’t know about each other, Marcos tries to...  (more)

    POSTED OCT 10 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Fatherhood Dreams
    Fatherhood Dreams
    1. A film by Boris Ivanov
    2. run time 55 minutes

    In this heartfelt documentary, four gay men explore different options to attain their Fatherhood Dreams – Randy and Drew turn to adoption, Stephen co-parented his two daughters with a lesbian couple, and Scott prepares for the arrival of his twins through surrogacy  (more)

    POSTED MAY 30 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Pages of a Girl
    Pages of a Girl (Páginas de Menina)
    1. A film by Monica Palazzo
    2. run time 18 minutes 50 seconds

    In 1955, young Ingrid applies for a job at Machado de Assis Bookstore and meets Silvia, a very beautiful woman who is in town for a while. Their first intellectual affection becomes emotional. It´s a story about the love for books, literature and the will to go beyond what's superficial and the challenge of facing the unconventional. A meeting between two women, carefully aesthetic influenced by...  (more)

    POSTED MAY 07 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Mirror Mirror
    Mirror Mirror
    1. A film by John Winter
    2. run time 10 minutes 29 seconds

    The story of an elderly crossdresser... After so many years together, Joe faces life without Jana. Saying goodbye to yourself is never easy.  (more)

    POSTED JAN 23 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit
  • Gillery's Little Secret
    Gillery's Little Secret
    1. A film by TM Scorzafava
    2. run time 25 minutes

    A female-driven examination of the depth that lies between love and friendship. Gillery returns home for her 20th reunion, where she is confronted by a girl seeking answers. To answer these questions she confronts a past love, uncovering a secret now forced out after eighteen years.  (more)

    POSTED JAN 11 Reviews + Comments Online Press Kit

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Latest Festival Winners

  1. 11/10/08"Cowboy" wins Iris Prize 2008
  2. 10/27/082008 Awards Given at the 2008 Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  3. 10/27/08clip19! Jury Award Winners- 2008 Clip! Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  4. 10/27/0812th LISBON GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FEST AWARDS
  5. 07/30/082008 Award Winners for the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  6. 07/01/082008 Award Winners for the Frameline- San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  7. 06/30/08Award Winners Announced for the 2008 Skeive Filmer Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  8. 06/24/082008 Breckenridge Festival of Film – Festival Awards
  9. 06/24/08The 2008 NewFest Award Winners Announced
  10. 03/18/08Award Winners Announced for the 2008 Melbourne Queer Film Festival
  11. 12/11/07Les Palmares de Festival image+nation 2007- En Francais
  12. 11/06/07Award Winners Announced for the 2007 Hamburg International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  13. 11/02/07Award Winners Announced for the 2007 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  14. 11/02/07Audience Choice Award Winners Announced for the 2007 Reel Affirmations: International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  15. 10/11/07Awards as the 2007 Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  16. 09/26/072007 Outfest Award Winners
  17. 09/25/07The Legacy Awards!
  18. 08/18/07Award Winners to the 2007 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
  19. 07/21/072006 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  20. 07/17/07Awards for the 2007 Frameline- San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  21. 07/06/07Award Winners for the 2007 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  22. 06/12/07Award Winners for the 2007 Breckenridge Film Festival
  23. 06/12/07Award Winners for the 2007 TORONTO LESBIAN AND GAY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
  24. 06/12/07Mark S. Bonham Scholarship for Queer Studies in Film and Video
  25. 06/11/07The 2006 NewFest Awards were presented at the Closing Night Gala on Sunday, June 11th.
  26. 04/07/07Award Winners for the 2007 Melbourne Queer Film Festival