Outfest Awards: "Were the World Mine" named outstanding U.S. dramatic feature...
Had to miss Sunday's awards night at the Ford Ampitheatre because of the NBC party so I'm ripping off a story from The Hollywood Reporter about who won what! I'm happy to see that Thomas Gustafson's "Were the World Mine," which recounts an all-boys high school production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," was named outstanding U.S. dramatic feature. It happened to be the movie that was screened after the awards ceremony. I watched it on DVD a few weeks ago and loved it.
Click HERE to a clip and my interview with the director....
The festical, which formally closes tonight, also honored Lucia Puenzo's "XXY" as best international dramatic feature. Daryl Wein's "Sex Postitive" took the documentary award. Tye Olson was chosen best actor in a feature for "Watercolors"; Nicole Bilderback was best actress for "The New Twenty."
James Bolton earned the screenwriting award for "Dream Boy" which I reviewed over the weekend. Click HERE to see that.
Other winners: Madeleine Olnek's "Countertransference" was named best dramatic short; Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega's "La Corona" (The Crown) was hailed as best documentary short.
David Assmann's "Football Under Cover" received the Freedom Award, Dave O'Brien was recognized with the Emerging Talent Award for "Equality U" and Matt Wolf took the prize for Artistic Achievement for "Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell."
Audience awards went to David Oliveras, "Watercolors," first dramatic feature; Andrew Fleming, "Hamlet 2," dramatic feature; Carolyn Coal, "A Place to Live," documentary feature; Lee Sung-eun, "I'm Jin-Young," dramatic short; Micheli and Vega, "La Corna," documentary short; and "Hamlet 2," soundtrack.
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I too was impressed with DREAM BOY as I was with his two previous films EBAN AND CHARLY and THE GRAFFITTI ARTIST. I was very disappointed that it didn't win Best Feature. I can't fault the fun of HAMLET 2 but it a film being distributed by Focus Features, a division of NBC/Universal. They did BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, if you recall. And it is hardly what I would call a "gay" film.
There is something magical about Southern story telling, gay or straight. James Bolton delivered it all. As did the actors. How amazing was it to watch and listen to with that great soundtrack. And what about Ricky Lee Jones as Roy's mother?
When I talked with Mr. Bolton after the film he said he has just optioned, Tom Spponbauer's great novel, THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON. I am sure he will do a terrific job on that too.