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SF LGBT Film Festival Proudly Presents Frameline30 Award
to Acclaimed French Filmmaker François Ozon
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. Frameline is proud to present The Frameline Award (its annual award for significant contribution to LGBT film) to François Ozon, whose cinematic trajectory thus far from black comedies through sinister psychological thrillers to incisive yet no less vibrant character studies marks him as a major talent on the international scene.
The quality and quantity of Ozon’s oeuvre thus far has been consistently startling and rewarding. He learned his craft in film school, studying in Paris with master French filmmaker Eric Rohmer and making 14 shorts and mini-features, including A Summer Dress and See the Sea. Sitcom, Ozon’s first feature-length narrative, skewers an uptight bourgeois family under the spell of a frisky pet rat. He followed with the sexed-up, grimly funny fairy tale Criminal Lovers and the Fassbinder homage Water Drops on Burning Rocks, both stylistically assured and very cheeky.
Just when everyone had Ozon pegged as an enfant terrible who reveled in bondage, cannibalism and camp, he changed direction and flaunted his Hitchcock and Cukor influences with Under the Sand, featuring a daring performance by Charlotte Rampling as a woman unable to accept her husband’s death. Next came 8 Women, in which the crème de la crème of French actresses romp through a murder mystery replete with musical numbers, Sirkian melodrama and set decor to die for. Rampling returned in the tantalizing mindfuck Swimming Pool, Ozon’s most popular stateside film to date. The demise of a marriage is chillingly tracked in reverse time in 5x2, while Time to Leave, Ozon’s latest and most mature work to date, is the second in a proposed trilogy dealing with death.
The Frameline Award, given in recent years to queer film luminaries such as Gregg Araki, Rose Troche, Isaac Julien and Barbara Hammer, will this year be presented to Ozon at 7pm on Tuesday, June 20 at the Castro Theatre, the occasion of Frameline30’s Centerpiece screening of Time to Leave. Please join us in saluting this très magnifique filmmaker.
Filmmaker extraordinaire Gregg Araki received the 2005 Frameline Award for his outstanding cinematic contributions including Mysterious Skin, The Living End and The Doom Generation.
Prior recipients of the annual Frameline Award include Peter Adair, the directing/producing duo Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, Marcus Hu, Stanley Kwan, Marlon Riggs and Christine Vachon.
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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