(SLGFF 2015) Jury and Audience Award Winners Announced!

Our Pal, Camina won for Best Doc!

[Photo credit: Urban Focus Photography]

[Photo credit: Urban Focus Photography]

The winners of the juried prizes at the 20th annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival are as follows:

BEST FEATURE FILM: NAZ & MAALIK by Jay Dockendorf

A rarity in queer cinema, this film is an intimate portrait of two young Muslim men that places gay relationships within a political, even geopolitical, context.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: UPSTAIRS INFERNO by Robert Camina [pictured above]

Utilizing brutally honest interviews and visceral footage, Upstairs Inferno is an important record of the largely unknown yet deadliest attack in LGBT history.

DOCUMENTARY FILM HONORABLE MENTION: PETER DE ROME: GRANDFATHER OF GAY PORN by Ethan Reid
Important and entertaining biography of a filmmaker and artist whose honest, beautiful and explicit work unabashedly celebrated gay sex and social justice in pre-AIDS era NY and London.

BEST SHORT FILM: TRÉMULO by Roberto Fiesco

Distinguished by gorgeous cinematography and a rich, compelling visual narrative, TRÉMULO tells the story of an unlikely romance between a soldier and a young man, with tension, beauty, and tenderness.

SHORT FILM HONORABLE MENTION: HOLE by Martin Edralin

MOST INNOVATIVE SHORT FILM: POP-UP PORNO: M4M by Stephen Dunn

Pop-up porno takes a story we've never heard and tells it in a wholly original and innovative way


Here are this year's SLGFF20 Audience Favorites as determined by popular vote!

Favorite Narrative: FREEHELD by Peter Sollett

Favorite Documentary: THE GLAMOUR & THE SQUALOR by Marq Evans

Favorite Lesbian Short Film: (We have a tie!)
BOXEADORA by Meg Smaker
JOANI, QUEEN OF THE PARADIDDLE by Tina Gordon

Favorite Gay Short Film: TRÉMULO by Roberto Fiesco

Favorite Transgender Short Film: RAISING RYLAND by Sarah Feeley