Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
dal 25/4/2001 al 5/5/2001
Segnalato da
25/4/2001
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Colony Theater, Miami
Held in the historic South Beach neighborhood, The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival has almost doubled its size in the last two years- from a six-day event to a 10-day full-length event -- this year showing 24 feature films and 41 shorter works.
Held in the historic South Beach neighborhood, The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival has almost doubled its size in the last two
years- from a six-day event to a 10-day full-length event --
this year showing 24 feature films and 41 shorter works.
"Being that we're based in Miami -- which is considered a
worldwide gay mecca, as well as a crossroads of the Americas and a
center of Spanish language media -- it's almost expected that we
would have an important gay and lesbian film festival with an
international and especially Latin flavor," says Festival Director
Robert Rosenberg, whose own filmmaking credits include the
Emmy-Award winning documentary BEFORE STONEWALL.
Rosenberg describes the Festival as an annual event where
audiences "can see things they won't get to see anywhere else, and
where genres and genders are juxtaposed in interesting and
unexpected ways," resulting in "a forum in which film-going
audiences of all persuasions get an opportunity to see
cutting-edge films that also happen to feature a gay or lesbian
character or a gay theme, and the gay community gets the chance to
see more experimental or difficult works that challenge and
affirm."
Among this year's feature films is the South Florida opening night
premiere of BIG EDEN, the story of a young gay man (played by Arye
Gross from TV's ELLEN) who returns home to a small Montana town
to care for his ailing grandfather. The film stars Louise
Fletcher, (ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST) and is directed by
Thomas Bezucha, who will attend the Festival.
From Spain comes new feature film KM.0, a comedy of errors about
14 different people -- gay and straight -- who plan to meet at the
central plaza in Madrid and end up hooking up with the wrong
person as their personal vignettes overlap and intersect.
Co-directors Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda Garcia Serrano won the
Best Feature and Audience Award prizes at the Miami Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival two years ago for their film AMOR DE HOMBRE.
From Japan comes the South Florida premiere of the gay Samurai
film, TABOO. Directed by Nagashi Oshima, (IN THE REALM OF THE
SENSES) it is "the story of a ravishingly androgynous young
recruit who sparks lust among the ranks and leadership of the
all-male Shogun militia in 19th-century Japan."
Plus:
Argentine director Marcelo Pieyro's PLATA QUEMADA, (Burnt Money)
"a violent and hot gay Bonnie and Clyde-like film from Argentina,
starring Spanish heartthrob Eduardo Noriega."
JUST ONE TIME, Lane Janger's "uproarious and very gay sex farce
that turns on a familiar straight guy`s fantasy of his girlfriend
in bed with another woman."
Shari Carpenter's "touchingly funny, visually rich" KALI'S VIBE, a
romantic comedy about an African-American lesbian and her
two-timing girlfriend, with music by Me'shell Ndegecello.
Barbara Hammer's HISTORY LESSONS, about the portrayal of lesbians
in cinematic history, including creative voice-morphing which
makes Eleanor Roosevelt into an outspoken lesbian leader.
Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami, Florida