SLGFF Announces Winners For Festival 20…My Cinema Classic Not One of Them

October 22, 2015• byMichael Strangeways

JInkx Monsoon stars in the documentary “Drag Becomes Him” by director Alex Berry to world premiere in Seattle, WA on April 29, 2015.

And, MY film, “Drag Becomes Him” the BRILLIANT documentary made by director Alex Berry and produced by Basil Shadid, Jacob Leander and ME was ignored by both the mentally retarded jury AND obviously mentally ill audience members who failed to vote for it as Best Doc (which it obviously was) and no, we’re not at ALL bitter or vengeful about it and bear NO hard feelings towards ANYONE and we probably won’t take ANY sort of revenge on Seattle by poisoning its water supply somehow….

I keed! I keed!

Mostly….

The actual FINE (not as fine as mine…) films that did win shiny gold awards (or pieces of relatively heavy stock paper) were, Jury Awards first:

Best Narrative Feature

NAZ & MAALIK

A rarity in queer cinema, this film is an intimate portrait of two young Muslim men that places gay relationships within a political, even geopolitical, context (directed by Jay Dockendorf).

Best Documentary Film

UPSTAIRS INFERNO

Utilizing brutally honest interviews and visceral footage, UPSTAIRS INFERNO is an important record of the largely unknown yet deadliest attack in LGBT history (Directed by Robert L. Camina).

Documentary Film Honorable Mention

PETER DE ROME: GRANDFATHER OF GAY PORN

Important and entertaining biography of a filmmaker and artist whose honest, beautiful and explicit work unabashedly celebrated gay sex and social justice in pre-AIDS era NY and London (directed by Ethan Reid).

Best Short Film

TRÉMULO

Distinguished by gorgeous cinematography and a rich, compelling visual narrative, TRÉMULO tells the story of an unlikely romance between a soldier and a young man with tension, beauty, and tenderness (directed by Roberto Fiesco).

Most Innovative Short Film

POP-UP PORNO: M4M

POP-UP PORNO: M4M takes a story we’ve never heard and tells it in a wholly original and innovative way (directed by Stephen Dunn).

Short Film Honorable Mention

HOLE (directed by Martin Edralin)

Here are the dimwitted Audience Awards:

Favorite Narrative

FREEHELD directed by Peter Sollett

Favorite Documentary

THE GLAMOUR & THE SQUALOR directed by Marq Evans

Favorite Lesbian Short Film: (We have a tie!)

BOXEADORA directed by Meg Smaker

JOANI, QUEEN OF THE PARADIDDLE directed by Tina Gordon

Favorite Gay Short Film

TRÉMULO directed by Roberto Fiesco

Favorite Transgender Short Film

RAISING RYLAND directed by Sarah Feeley

Three Dollar Bill Cinema also wants to change the name of the festival:

Interested in lending your thoughts to our process? Take this short survey to participate in renaming the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

Since we’re bitterly depressed right now, we suggest “The Seattle Bitterass Queer Filmmakers Festival of Sorrow” but we’re not sure if it will gain much support.

KIDDING!!!!!

(it totally will….)

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.