2016 Award Winners At The Boston LGBT Film Festival
Our 2016 Jury And Audience Award Winners!
SPA NIGHT - Directed by Andrew Ahn
The 2016 Jury award for Best Narrative Feature Film goes to Andrew Ahn's moving and, at times, heart-wrenching film SPA NIGHT.
"The jury valued how this film shed light on the quiet and isolated experience of the main character David Cho's self-discovery in Los Angeles' Korean immigrant community. Ahn deftly reveals the present-day challenges of navigating traditional Korean American family, church, and educational values.
SPA NIGHT is an award-worthy film that presents an LGBT story that we don’t see often enough."
Read the Jury's full statement here.
MAJOR! - Directed by Annalise Ophelian
The Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature goes to Annalise Ophelian's powerful and uplifting film MAJOR!
MAJOR also won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature.
MAJOR! is a film biography of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a longtime transgender activist, a participant in the Stonewall Rebellion, and the leader of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project, which advocates for and provides resources to incarcerated transgender women of color. Ophelian’s film paints a nuanced portrait of a complex figure who doesn’t conform to any one simple identity, and it gives voice to a wide range of transgender people who often have no chance to tell their own stories. It is a vivid, thoughtful, and moving film.
Read the Jury's full statement here.
PARIS 05:59: THEO AND HUGO Directed by Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel
The Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature goes to filmmaking couple Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastal's stunning contemporary queer drama PARIS 05:59: THEO AND HUGO.
We thank all of you for voting.
BOARDWALK Directed by Etamar Kadushevis
The Audience Award for Best Short Film goes to Etamar Kadushevis' powerful film BOARDWALK.
We thank all of you for voting.
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