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The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival presents selected filmmakers with audience favorite and juried awards.
Audience Favorite Awards are determined by ballots completed by attendees during the festival. The audience awards presented on Closing Night are:
- Favorite Narrative Feature
- Favorite Documentary Feature
- Favorite Boys Short
- Favorite Girls Short
- Favorite Local Film
Three Dollar Bill Cinema Awards for Excellence are chosen by our esteemed panel of jurors and include a cash prize. Three juries convene to select the following awards:
- Best Feature Film
- Best Documentary Film
- Best Short Film
- Most Innovative Short Film
Narrative Jury
Sean West is a Seattle-based film producer and director. His projects include HAROLD'S HOME MOVIES (2004) and NIGHT BLIND, the 2008 IFP/Seattle Spotlight Award.
Aubrey Manning was honored by Seattle's "Women In Film" in 2006 and made her film debut in TAOS: THE MOVIE. She starred in the long-running Seattle production "Late Nite Catechism" and now performs that canon internationally. Her credits include television, cabaret, and off-Broadway.
Tamara Cooper lectures in Cinema Studies at the University of Washington. A film and video muchacha at the core, she has been working in film and community organizing for the last 15 years.
Shorts Jury
Neelu Bhuman helped produce the 2008 queer-focused South Asian Independent Film Festival. Neelu participates in queer activism through films and art; her paintings were part of Gay City Health Project's "Exposed" art show earlier this year.
Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker and the program director of Northwest Film Forum. You can find him belting out Karen Carpenter's "Superstar" in his spare time at your local karaoke bar.
Jeff Maness is an art + technology entrepreneur and senior consultant at Pivotal Focus, where he specializes in digital and interactive media business strategies. He has an advanced degree in digital media design and is currently pursuing a master's in Arts Technology.
Documentary Jury
John Otto is a librarian and dilettante, currently volunteering at the Seattle Art Museum library while seeking employment. He is known nationwide for his subject expertise on transgender issues.
Pete Rush is a Seattle-based scenic and costume designer for the theatre, a large-scale installation artist, and coordinator of the arts access program Teen Tix for Seattle Center.
Daphne Domingo is a life coach and freelance writer who has been involved with TDBC since 2005, on screening committees, as Guest Relations Coordinator, and on the Board of Directors. In 2008, she directed a short film for the Super 8: Superstitions program.
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