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Outfest has announced the award winners of its 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival.<\/p>\n
Top prizes went to Amanda Kramer\u2019s Please Baby Please, starring Andrea Riseborough, Henry Melling, Karl Glusman and Demi Moore, for Outstanding North American Narrative Feature; Gabriel Martins\u2019 Brazilian family drama Mars One took the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding International Narrative Feature, and the newly-named Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Feature went to Rita Baghdadi\u2019s Sirens, about the Lebanese female thrash metal band Slave to Sirens. The Academy Award-qualifying festival\u2019s two Grand Jury prizes for Narrative shorts went to April Maxey\u2019s Work (Outstanding U.S. Narrative Short) and Dania Bedir\u2019s Warsha, both of which are now Oscar eligible. Outstanding Documentary Short went to Brydie O\u2019Connor\u2019s Love, Barbara.<\/p>\n
Audience awards went to Juan Felipe Zuleta\u2019s crowd-pleasing Unidentified Objects, and documentary feature Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story, which chronicles the life of trans pro skateboarder Leo Baker and was recently acquired by Netflix. Complete list of winners is below.<\/p>\n
The nation\u2019s leading LGBTQIA+ festival was bookended by two world premiere screenings. The fest opened with Billy Porter\u2019s directorial debut Anything\u2019s Possible at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, where Porter was on hand to receive Outfest\u2019s Achievement Award and gave a fiery acceptance speech addressing the political moment. The festival closed at the Theater at the Ace Hotel with the world premiere of Peacock and Blumhouse Productions\u2019 They\/Them, with cast members Kevin Bacon, Carrie Preston, Theo Germaine, Austin Crute and Quei Tann in attendance.<\/p>\n
Narrative Feature selection Chrissy Judy and Documentary Feature selection A Run for More were both picked up by The Film Collaborative for worldwide festival distribution during the Festival.<\/p>\n
Just over 30,000 attendees experienced Outfest LA programming this year. This included dozens of red-carpet premieres, parties and receptions at the DGA, REDCAT and Ford Amphitheater; a private event celebrating the 2022 Architects of Outfest; as well as educational and industry programming, including; a week-long breakfast filmmaker breakfast series held at Second Home, Hollywood, the Festival\u2019s inaugural Industry Summit: State of Queer Media, held at NeueHouse Hollywood, and a heralded Industry Networking Event, held at The West Hollywood Edition hotel.<\/p>\n
Outfest also awarded filmmakers over $100,000 at its awards ceremony on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The winners of the Grand Jury Prizes for Outstanding U.S. Narrative Short, Outstanding Documentary Short, Outstanding International Narrative Short, Outstanding International Feature and Outstanding North American Feature all received a $1000 cash prize awarded in partnership with Entertainment Partners.<\/p>\n
New this year, due to the support of Outfest Empathy Fund Benefactors\u2019 Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis, the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature section will now proudly carry their names, and the awarded filmmaker receives a $5,000 cash prize. For the next ten years, the Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Feature will not only mark true queer excellence in the field of documentary filmmaking but also, through their generosity, directly support the growth and development of a filmmaker\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
Select 2022 jury and audience-favorite award-winning films, including popular features Unidentified Objects, My Emptiness and I, and Jeannette, will be available for a special 72 hours of encore viewing, as well as the vast majority of the festival\u2019s short film program. Streaming packages range from $8 to $24.99. Catch the winners below streaming at outfestla.org.<\/p>\n
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AUDIENCE AWARDS<\/p>\n
Audience Award for Best Documentary Short
\nCANS Can\u2019t Stand
\ndir: Matt Nadel & Megan Plotka<\/p>\n
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
\nStay on Board: The Leo Baker Story
\ndir: Nicola Marsh & Giovanni Reda<\/p>\n
Audience Award for Best Narrative Short
\nTroy
\ndir: Mike Donahue<\/p>\n
Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
\nUnidentified Objects
\ndir: Juan Felipe Zuleta<\/p>\n
Audience Award for Best Platinum Short
\nRemnants
\ndir: Primo Justice Schiappa<\/p>\n
Audience Award for Best Episodic
\nSleep With Me
\ndir: Samantha Lee<\/p>\n
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GRAND JURY AWARDS<\/p>\n
Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Feature
\nSIRENS
\ndir: Rita Baghdadi
\nFor its nuanced and universal perspective of an all-female queer metal band in Lebanon against the backdrop of conflict, the Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Feature goes to SIRENS, directed by Rita Baghdadi.<\/p>\n
Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature
\nJEANNETTE
\ndir: Maris Curran
\nFor its evocative observation of one woman\u2019s journey through grief \u2014 as a mother, an athlete, and a survivor of gun violence<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding North American Narrative Feature
\nPLEASE BABY PLEASE
\ndir: Amanda Kramer
\nFor its dazzling and inspired vision, its confident and inventive direction, its daring and committed performances, its luscious visual style, its thematic relevance and its delightful queer sensibility, one that pays homage to legendary queer filmmakers like Kenneth Anger and Fassbinder, and yet manages to stand on its own.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance in a North American Narrative Feature<\/p>\n
Matthew Jeffers in UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS
\nFor his funny, heartrending, and hopeful performance as a man discovering himself while on a road-tripping odyssey.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Screenplay in a North American Narrative Feature
\nJuan Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez, Ana Isabel Fern\u00e1ndez and Ilana Coleman for DOS ESTACIONES
\nThis film speaks volumes using minimal dialogue, displaying the power of its conceptualization. For presenting a unique perspective of a queer woman taking on the traditionally macho role of a tequila factory owner.<\/p>\n
Honorable Mention for North American Narrative Feature
\nYOUTOPIA
\ndir: Scout Durwood
\nFor her innovative, hilarious, and politically erudite storytelling and exceptional musical numbers.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding International Narrative Feature
\nMARS ONE
\ndir: Gabriel Martins
\nFor its nuanced, layered and touching portrayal of family life that will linger in our hearts.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Screenplay in a International Narrative Feature
\nSUBLIME by Mariano Biasin
\nFor its subtle and heartfelt representation of young love and connection.<\/p>\n
Honorable Mention for Screenplay in a International Narrative Feature
\nATTACHMENT by Gabriel Bier Gislason
\nFor its perfect balance between camp, suspense and heart and its original and unique take on the horror genre.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance in a International Narrative Feature
\nAamu Milonoff in GIRL PICTURE
\nFor the understated genius of her performance that was so dynamically conveyed in the quiet moments.<\/p>\n
Honorable Mention for Performance in a International Narrative Feature
\nRapha\u00eblle Perez in MY EMPTINESS AND I
\nFor the emotional journey that she took us on with her depiction of her authentic and vulnerable self.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding International Narrative Short
\nWARSHA
\ndir: Dania Bedir
\nPoised between prayer and ecstasy, WARSHA suspends audiences in an eternal waltz between the self and the sublime, as we witness the transformation of its protagonist from an everyday laborer and refugee to an everyday super person.<\/p>\n
Honorable Mention for International Narrative Short
\nTANK FAIRY
\ndir: Erich Rettstadt
\nA film whose lead character turns heads in Taipei City, rocking a blue pleather jumpsuit while riding a hot pink and purple motorbike as she performs her daily job of delivering tanks of gas with a dash of sass. After she befriends young JoJo, who is in desperate need of a queer fairy god-mother, you\u2019ll never think of Bonnie Tyler\u2019s \u201cHolding Out for A Hero\u201d the same. With minimal dialogue and a delicious dance routine, this film plays out like a silent movie with heightened, truthful emotions.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Short
\nLOVE, BARBARA D
\ndir: Brydie O\u2019Connor
\nFor its sincere and intimate remembering of the trailblazing queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer.<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding U.S. Narrative Short
\nWORK
\ndir: April Maxey
\nFor its tenderly observed portrait of queer heartbreak in a specifically queer community.<\/p>\n
Honorable Mentions for U.S. Narrative Short
\nELE OF THE DARK
\ndir: Yace Sula
\nFor its formal ingenuity and layered explorations of self.<\/p>\n
LOLLYGAG
\ndir: Tij D\u2019oyen
\nFor its visual confidence and playfully twisted nostalgia.<\/p>\n
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SPECIAL PROGRAMMING AWARDS<\/p>\n
Emerging Talent
\nYusuf Shadeed Nasir for his short REGRET TO INFORM YOU<\/p>\n
Freedom
\nU\u00ddRA: THE RISING FOREST<\/p>\n
Artistic Achievement
\nMohammad Shawky Hassan for SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER\u2019S DAY?<\/p>\n
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2022 ARCHITECTS OF OUTFEST LIST<\/p>\n
The inaugural 2022 Architects of Outfest list was announced and presented on stage at the Outfest Opening Night Gala. The list is the beginning of a movement to celebrate and acknowledge the growing number of people who have contributed significantly to the origins and growth of Outfest and its programs since 1982.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s honorees include:<\/p>\n
Adriene Jenik<\/p>\n
Alan Hergott<\/p>\n
Alan Poul<\/p>\n
Andrea Meyerson<\/p>\n
Andrew Ahn<\/p>\n
Angela Robinson<\/p>\n
Arthur Dong<\/p>\n
Barry Sandler<\/p>\n
Brickson Diamond<\/p>\n
Bruce Cohen<\/p>\n
Catherine Lord<\/p>\n
Catherine Opie<\/p>\n
Chris Ranta<\/p>\n
Christine Vachon<\/p>\n
Christopher Berry<\/p>\n
Christopher Isherwood<\/p>\n
Christopher Racster<\/p>\n
Claire Aguilar<\/p>\n
Curt Shepard<\/p>\n
David Geffen<\/p>\n
Deandre Gossfield<\/p>\n
Dennis D. Williams<\/p>\n
Don Bachardy<\/p>\n
Don Diers<\/p>\n
Doug Edwards<\/p>\n
Drew Droege<\/p>\n
Eric d\u2019Arbeloff<\/p>\n
Erika Suderburg<\/p>\n
Ernest Hardy<\/p>\n
Eve Oishi<\/p>\n
Gabriel Bustamante<\/p>\n
Geoff Gilmore<\/p>\n
Geoff Stier<\/p>\n
Gus Van Sant<\/p>\n
Harlan Levinson<\/p>\n
Howard Cohen<\/p>\n
Isaac Julien<\/p>\n
Jackson<\/p>\n
Jeff Guthrie<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Friedman<\/p>\n
Jenni Olson<\/p>\n
John August<\/p>\n
John Cooper<\/p>\n
John Ramirez<\/p>\n
John Schlesinger<\/p>\n
Jonathan Howard<\/p>\n
Karamo Brown<\/p>\n
Kerri Stoughton-Jackson<\/p>\n
Kevin Thomas<\/p>\n
Kim Yutani<\/p>\n
Kirsten Schaffer<\/p>\n
Larry Horne<\/p>\n
Laura Ivey<\/p>\n
Leslie Belzberg<\/p>\n
Lucy Mukerjee<\/p>\n
Lucy Winer<\/p>\n
Martha Wheelock<\/p>\n
May Hong HaDuong<\/p>\n
Meena Nanji<\/p>\n
Michael Ferrera<\/p>\n
Michael Lombardo<\/p>\n
Morgan Rumpf<\/p>\n
Nathalie Magnan<\/p>\n
Nazila Hedayat<\/p>\n
Nicole Conn<\/p>\n
Nisha Ganatra<\/p>\n
Patrick Mangto<\/p>\n
Patrick Scott<\/p>\n
Patrik-Ian Polk<\/p>\n
Peter Ansin<\/p>\n
Peter Spears<\/p>\n
Quincy Gossfield<\/p>\n
Rick Mechtly<\/p>\n
Rob Epstein<\/p>\n
Robert Hawk<\/p>\n
Robert Rosen<\/p>\n
Roland Emmerich<\/p>\n
Ron Athey<\/p>\n
Rose Troche<\/p>\n
Russell Blackstone<\/p>\n
Samantha Sprecher<\/p>\n
Sande Zeig<\/p>\n
Scott Meckling<\/p>\n
Shannon Kelley<\/p>\n
Shari Frilot<\/p>\n
Shari Page<\/p>\n
Silas Howard<\/p>\n
Stephen Gutwillig<\/p>\n
Stephen Macias<\/p>\n
Stuart Timmons<\/p>\n
Susan Ferris<\/p>\n
Ted Guefen<\/p>\n
Terry Lawler<\/p>\n
Tess Martin<\/p>\n
Tim Kittleson<\/p>\n
Vaginal Davis<\/p>\n
Vanjie Griego<\/p>\n
Vito Russo<\/p>\n
Zackary Drucker<\/p>\n
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THE JURY<\/p>\n
North American Narrative Features Jury
\nEditor-in-Chief of The Advocate Tracy Gilchrist
\nFilmmaker Javier Fuentes-Le\u00f3n
\nRoadside Attractions\u2019 Senior Director of Acquisitions Angel An<\/p>\n
International Narrative Features Jury
\nDirector of Programming for the Tampa Bay International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Brighid Wheeler
\nActor-Producer Dalila Ali Rajah
\nFilmmaker Patricia Vidal Delgado<\/p>\n
Documentary Jury (Features and Shorts)
\nManager, Nonfiction Programs and Fiscal Sponsorship at Film Independent Daniel Cardone
\nFilmmaker Whitney Skauge
\nDirector of L.A. Times Short Docs Nani Walker<\/p>\n
International Narrative Shorts Jury
\nCo-Director of Programming for the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Ritesh Mehta
\nFilmmaker Jett Garrison
\nShorts Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival Irene Suico Soriano<\/p>\n
U.S. Narrative Shorts Jury
\nFilm Programmer Robert John Torres
\nFilm Critic at Autostraddle Drew Gregory
\nFilm Education & Narrative Inclusion Consultant Martine McDonald<\/p>\n
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