North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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| Location | Durham, North Carolina |
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| Established | 1995 |
| Disestablished | 2019 |
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| Website | Carolina Theatre |
The North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Festival is an annual LGBT film festival produced by the Carolina Theater in Durham, North Carolina, typically held in mid-August. The festival has been credited in previous years as the second largest LGBT film/video festival in the Southeastern United States.[1]
The festival debuted in 1995 as the Q Film Fest, renaming itself in the following year to the name it holds now. It has been consistently hosted in the same venue each year. The festival organizers have announced that the festival will change its name again in 2020 to .[2]
Programming[]
The NCGLFF is international in its focus, screening and occasionally opening selected films and inviting filmmakers and actors from the screened films to attend. The three individual theater venues are in the same building and each are dedicated to the festival's programming.
The festival's program size has varied over the years. For many of its first years, the festival was typically a four-day event (Thursday through Sunday) and has attracted an average of 10,000 patrons each year. In 2012, the NCGLFF expanded to a full week, bridging across two weekends.[3] The festival has since reduced back down to a four-day program with an extended Après-Fest in the week following.[4]
Awards[]
The Festival has given a variety of awards to screened films over the years. Awards have been historically divided into Men's, Women's, and Trans categories and also divided on film length.
| Year | Category | Winner | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Men's Feature | [5] | |
| Women's Feature | Cloudburst | ||
| Documentary | Wish Me Away | ||
| 2013 | |||
| 2014 | Men's Feature | [6] | |
| Women's Feature | Tru Love (film) | ||
| Short Film | |||
| 2015 | Men's Feature | and (tie) | [7] |
| Women's Feature | Margarita with a Straw | ||
| Trans Feature | |||
| 2016 | Men's Feature | [8] | |
| Women's International Short | |||
| Documentary Feature | |||
| 2017 | Trans Feature | [9] | |
| Documentary Feature | [10] | ||
| Men's Feature | |||
| 2018 | Men's Feature | [11] | |
| Women's Feature | [12] | ||
| Trans Feature | [13] | ||
| Documentary | [14] | ||
| 2019 | Comedy Film | [15] | |
| Drama Film | From Zero to I Love You | ||
| Foreign Film | The Shiny Shrimps | ||
| Documentary Film | Gay Chorus Deep South |
| Year | Category | Winner | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Men's Feature | 4th Man Out | [16] |
| Women's Feature | ALTO | ||
| 2016 | Men's Feature | [17] | |
| Women's Feature | AWOL | ||
| Trans Feature | Girls Lost | ||
| 2017 | |||
| 2018 | Men's Feature | Evening Shadows | [18] |
| Women's Feature | |||
| Trans Feature |
References[]
- ^ King, Thomas. "N.C. gay film fest celebrates 10 years". Q-Notes Online. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival Will Be Renamed Outsouth Queer Film Festival in 2020". Carolina Theatre of Durham. 2019-03-01. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ "2012 N.C. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Headliner Kathy Griffin Will Perform Live at DPAC Aug. 10th". Triangle Arts and Entertainment. 2012-08-09. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "2018 NC Gay + Lesbian Film Festival Guide". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "NCGLFF 2012 Audience Awards | Carolina Theatre - Downtown Durham, North Carolina". www.carolinatheatre.org. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (2014)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ "Audience Award Winners | Carolina Theatre - Downtown Durham, North Carolina". www.carolinatheatre.org. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (2016)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (2017)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival | Carolina Theatre - Downtown Durham, North Carolina". 2019-10-31. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
- ^ "NCGLFF Jury Award Winners | Carolina Theatre - Downtown Durham, North Carolina". www.carolinatheatre.org. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ Carolina Theatre of Durham. "2016 Jury Awards". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ Staff, DCVB. "Your Guide to the 2018 NC Gay and Lesbian Film Festival". blog.discoverdurham.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
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