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Tve been to London, Toronto and San Francisco with my film (The Undergrad) and I wanted to come to
North Carolina with it because I’d heard great things about North Carolina and the film festival. And they
were all exactly right; North Carolina is a great festival. Everyone knows that this is the festival you go to. ”
— Michelle Mahoney, attending filmmaker at the 2004 Festival.
Festival Celebrates 10 Years
DURHAM —One of Durham's signa
ture events, The North Carolina Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF),
celebrates 10 years of cinematic
achievement during the 10th annual
NCGLFF August 11-14 and Apfes-Fest
August 15-18 with the largest number
of feature films in our history.
The Durham Convention and
Visitors Bureau (Durham-nc.com)
named die NCGLFF as a Signature
Event for Durham, fire highest honor
bestowed on a cultural event or attrac
tipn by file organization in 2003.
Produced by The Carolina Theatre of
Durham, Inc., the NCGLFF is the sec
ond largest film festival in the
Southeast and the .largest cultural arts
event serving the queer community in
the Cardinas.
Since beginning as a summer film
series in 1995, the NCGLFF has pre
sented a diverse array of shorts, docu
mentaries and feature films. Many
films, such as Nine Lives, Issues 101, 200
American, Tarheels & Short Skirts, Luster
and Camp: The Movie have made their
world or regional premiere here.
Mysterious Skin, August 14 at 7:00 pm
The 2005 festival includes 63 movies
(more than 40 of which are feature films
— doubling the number of previous
festivals) with ten regional premieres
and five world premieres (The Betsy
Wetsy Timebomb Effect, Boystown, The
Hair Of The Moon: 10th Anniversary
Edition, Shiny and What About My
Brother?).
The Programming Committee has
announced the Emerging Film Awards
for the year. They are On the Low —
Best Men's Short Tina Paulina: Living on
Hope Street — Best Women's Short and
Hate Crime — Best Men's Feature.
Because the Emerging Film award
recognizes not only artistic merit but
also to help those films which have not
secured domestic distribution, there
were not enough eligible entries to
award a Best Women's Feature this
year.
Another point of interest is that On
the Low is the first awarded film writ
ten, directed by (Luther M. Mao^MNB
starring African Americans. The 2003
short D.E.B.S was the first time the
award went to an African American
(director Angela Robinson).
Highlight films include the Women's
Centerpiece Girl Play, Men's
Centerpiece Summer Storm, Saving
Face, Exposed, 29th & Gay, Call Me
Malcolm, Beverly Kills, The Mostly
Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green,
Naked Fame, Transgeneration, The D
Word, The Reception, Guys and Balls,
Show Me, El Favor, Hellbent and Closing
Night Film Mysterious Skin.
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TransGeneration, August 14 at 4:30 pm .
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