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At the Closing Night party at downtown's Miami City Club -
abuzz with excitement from Festival filmgoers and filmmakers alike
- the Film Festival jury made up of South Florida industry
professionals and chaired by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Robert
Rosenberg (Before Stonewall), and Festival Founder and
Director, announced the awards. The winners were:
Best Fiction Feature A.K.A: Lies Are Like Wishes
directed by Duncan Roy
Roy audaciously splits his wide-screen vision ( a la Mike Figgis Timecode)
into a triptych of three simultaneous frames to tell his gripping
autobiographical story of disaffected youth, identity lost and
found, and the search for love amid the arrogant decadence of the
late 1970s England of Margaret Thatcher.
Best Documentary Daddy & Papa directed by
Johnny Symons
A beautifully personal and informative film that looks at gay men
becoming fathers, raising children and trying to change laws that
don't support their kind of families.
Best Short Touch directed by Jeremy Podeswa
With a dream-like style that mirrors a young boys troubled
perspective, Touch subverts our very definitions of love,
in this astonishingly beautiful and disturbing take on childhood
sexuality and abuse.
Special Jury Award for First Time Feature Filmmaking Guardian
of the Frontier (Varuh Meje) directed by Maja Weiss
The first female-helmed feature from Slovenia tells the story of
three college girl friends who embark on an innocent kayak trip
that becomes an unsettling tale of sexual awakening, and
nationalism run amok in the former Yugoslovia.
Special Jury Award for Pioneering Vision Hand on
the Pulse directed by Joyce Warshow
A documentary that profiles the daring, luminous, sexy life of
Joan Nestle political and sexual bad girl who came out into
the butch-femme bar scene of 1950s Greenwich Village and
co-founded the groundbreaking Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Audience Favorite Award Ruthie and Connie: Every
Room in the House directed by Deborah Dickson
A documentary about two 1950s-Brooklyn Jewish housewives and best
friends, who fall in love and take the ultimate risk in a stifling
world of conformity. Now, 30 years later, Ruthie and Connie,
part-time residents at Palm Beach County Century Village, are role
models for a younger generation.
More stories:
Prizes and Winners
The Real Robbie Rosenburg
Virginia and her Sexto
Sentido
Sexy Sullivan on The Trip
Marvelous Miami Film Festival
Photo gallery
Orgullo del Momento
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