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Frameline30 Presents Cash Awards to Jury and Audience Favorites
San Francisco, CA—The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the world’s largest and oldest queer film fest, will screen from June 15–25, 2006. Each year the Festival recognizes two artists whose outstanding accomplishments and contributions to LGBT cinema will earn them either the Dockers® First Feature Award ($10,000) or the Michael J. Berg Documentary Award ($10,000). Both juried awards are the largest cash prizes of any LGBT film festival.
To help celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Festival, Frameline is attaching a $2,500 cash award to each of the Festival’s Audience Awards for Best Feature, Best Documentary and Best Short Film. This brings a total of $27, 500 in cash awards for Frameline30, the largest of any LGBT film festival.
The prestigious awards will be announced on June 25, 2006 at the Closing Night Party at the San Francisco Design Center Galleria, located at 101 Henry Adams Street in San Francisco’s SOMA district.
Frameline30 offers 39 eligible candidates for the Michael J. Berg Documentary Award for excellence in documentary filmmaking, and 27 qualifying filmmakers for the Dockers® First Feature Award for first narrative features premiering at Frameline30. The unparalleled cash value serves as testament to Frameline’s ongoing support of LGBT filmmakers. Each award is made possible by the generous donations of Bill Dickey (longtime Frameline supporter and Festival attendee Michael J. Berg’s surviving partner) and Levi Strauss & Co.
This year’s eligible documentaries for the Michael J. Berg Award:
- BE REAL
- The Believers
- Beyond Conception
- Books of James
- Boy I Am
- CAMP OUT
- Cruel and Unusual
- The Dark Matter of Mars
- Derek Jarman: Life as Art
- FABULOUS! The Story of Queer Cinema
- FAG HAGS: Women Who Love Gay Men
- Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig
- For the Love of Dolly
- FtF: Female to Femme
- George Michael: A Different Story
- God & Gays: Bridging the Gap
- Half a Life
- Harsh Beauty
- Hotel Gondolín
- Jack Smith & the Destruction of Atlantis
- Kiki and Herb Reloaded
- Laughing Matters...More
- Lover Other
- Lulu Gets a Facelift
- Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mother’s Custody Movement
- Octopus Alarm
- Paper Dolls
- Pick Up the Mic
- Rainbow’s End
- Rock Bottom: Gay Men & Meth
- Saint of 9/11
- Saving Marriage
- small town gay bar
- Trantasia
- Ugly Ducklings
- Vice & Consent
- Why We Sing!
- With You!
- Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
This year’s eligible candidates for the Dockers® First Feature Award:
- A Very Serious Person
- Bam Bam and Celeste
- The Conrad Boys
- Fat Girls
- The Favor
- Go West
- The Gymnast
- Innocent
- The Last Second
- Like a Brother
- Looking for Cheyenne
- The Masseur
- Mom
- The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
- Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
- One Night Stand
- OpenCam
- Queer Duck: The Movie
- Rag Tag
- Red Doors
- the sex movie
- Soap
- Strangers With Candy
- Stray Cats
- Wild Tigers I Have Known
- Yours Emotionally
Last year’s Frameline29 juried award recipients included Jan Dunn for Gypo (Levi’s® First Feature Award), and Elle Flanders for Zero Degrees of Separation (Michael J. Berg Documentary Award).
Awards are announced at the Frameline30 Closing Night Party, Sunday, June 25 at the San Francisco Design Center Galleria, located at 101 Henry Adams Street in San Francisco’s SOMA district, following the screening of director Manuel Gómez Pereira’s screwball comedy Queens starring Almodóvar favorites Carmen Maura and Marisa Paredes.
Frameline30: the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, screening June 15–25 at the Castro Theatre (429 Castro Street), CinéArts@Empire (85 West Portal Avenue), Roxie Film Center (3117 16th Street), Victoria Theatre (2961 16th Street) in San Francisco and the Parkway Theater (1834 Park Blvd.) in Oakland.
Advance tickets will be available at the Festival Ticket Outlet located at 474 Castro Street in San Francisco. The Ticket Outlet will be open for Frameline Members only from May 26th through June 1st. General public ticket sales begin on June 2nd. Tickets may also be purchased by phone (925.866.9559), fax (925.866.9597), or mail (Frameline30, P.O. Box 2229, Danville, CA 94526-7229). For more information on the Festival and how to purchase tickets call the 24-hour hotline at 925.866.9559 or visit http://www.frameline.org/festival.
The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival is presented by Frameline, a nonprofit LGBT organization whose mission is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts.
Media contact:
Seema Arora
seema@frameline.org
415.703.8650 x323 |
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