Juried Awards
Best Narrative Feature:
WHOLE NEW THING, directed by Amnon Buchbinder
Best New Director:
Russell P. Marleau, for THE CURIOSITY OF CHANCE
Honorable Mention:
Ned Farr, for THE GYMNAST
Best Documentary Feature:
PICK UP THE MIC, directed by Alex Hinton
Honorable Mention:
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL, directed by Janet Baus, Dan Hunt, and Reid Williams
Best Local Film:
STRAIGHT INTO GAY AMERICA, directed by Jennifer Ting
Honorable Mention:
MOM'S APPLE PIE, directed by Jodi Laine, Shan Ottey, and Shad Reinstein
Best Short Film:
RAPE FOR WHO I AM, directed by Lovinsa Kavuma
Honorable Mention:
JOHN AND MICHAEL, directed by Shira Avni
Honorable Mention:
DAVID, directed by Roberto Fiesco
Most Innovative Short Film:
DISPOSABLE, directed by Jo Gell and Robyn Paterson
Honorable Mention:
guy101, directed by Ian W. Gouldstone
Audience Awards
Favorite Narrative Feature:
A LOVE TO HIDE, directed by Christian Faure
Favorite Documentary Feature:
BOY I AM, directed by Sam Feder and Julie Hollar
Favorite Local Film:
STRAIGHT INTO GAY AMERICA, directed by Jennifer Ting
Favorite Boys' Short:
PEKING TURKEY, directed by Michael Mew
Favorite Girls' Short:
BROOKLYN'S BRIDGE TO JORDAN, directed by Tina Mabry
Awards
The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival presents selected filmmakers with Audience Favorite and Juried Awards.
The Audience Favorite Awards are determined by ballots completed by attendees during the festival. The awards presented on Closing Night are: Favorite Narrative Feature, Favorite Documentary Feature, Favorite Boys Short, Favorite Girls Short, and Favorite Local Film.
Three Dollar Bill Cinema Awards for Excellence are chosen by our esteemed panel of jurors. Three juries will convene to select the following awards: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary Film, Best New Director, Best Local Film, Best Short Film and Most Innovative Short Film.
Documentary Jury:
Ron Anders is an Arts and Entertainment writer for the Seattle Gay News, gay/lesbian film programmer for Central Cinema and a psychotherapist. He has been watching movies for 52 years.
Victoria Thomas Gentry, VAIN founder, has championed the Seattle arts community since 1996 with VAIN’s art gallery, artist studios, & Free Thinking Artist Residency Program.
robert yoon. program manager for gay city health project. an aries born on the year of the ox. lives for art, sushi & irony. rants - bad breath. raves - secrets.
Features Jury:
William W. Dawson has a passion for combining film, fashion, art and beauty. Managing director for the 2006 Seattle Black Pride Film Festival, he serves on advisory boards for Seattle Art Museum, and Manna House Workshops for the Arts.
Wilson Diehl is an artist, writer, & filmmaker living in an old elementary school in Seattle. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.
Crispin Thurlow is a professor of language and communication at the University of Washington. He has a background in applied psychology from South Africa and also trained as an actor in London.
Shorts Jury:
Donna Gentry, Seattle native, is a 2004 graduate of Cornish College of the Arts with a focus in photography and painting. She's had collaborative short film work shown at Seattle Art Museum.
Anne M. Hockens has managed On 15th Video since 1998. From 2000 to 2006, she worked as a film critic for four shows on the local cable station SCAN. In May of 2006 she started reviewing films for SIFFblog.com.
Aidan Key, ftm, father, trans-activist, writer, public speaker, and educator is the producer/director of the national conference FTM: A Gender Odyssey.
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