Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Festival 2022 Winners Include ‘Please Baby Please,’ ‘Mars One’
27.07.2022 - 18:37
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Wilson Chapman editor“Please Baby Please” and “Mars One” are among the winners of the 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival. The organization announced the honorees during its award ceremony Wednesday.The L.A.-based nonprofit, which promotes LGBTQ filmmakers and projects, ran its 40th edition festival from July 14-24.
Over the course of the festival, 30,000 people attended its programming and more than 200 films screened, including 42 world premieres. The festival opened with Billy Porter’s directorial debut “Anything’s Possible” and closed with the LGBTQ slasher film “They/Them.”“Please Baby Please,” directed by Amanda Kramer and starring Andrea Riseborough and Henry Melling, took the outstanding North American feature prize, while Brazilian director Gabriel Martins’ family drama “Mars One” won the outstanding international feature award.
Audience award winners included “Unidentified Objects” by Juan Felipe Zuleta and documentary feature “Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story.” Select award winners will be available to stream on Outfest’s website for a 72-hour period, via streaming packages with prices ranging from $8 to $24.99. During the festival, Outfest also awarded over $100,000 in grant and prize money to LGBTQ filmmakers to continue their work.
The Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant awarded $15,000 grants to Alexis G. Zall, Eliana Pipes and Jacob Roberts, while the #Outfest40 Concord Pitch Competition awarded Chanelle Tyson, Zoë Hodge and Miles Lopez and Jonathan De La Torre a collective $50,000 to produce short films based on Concord Originals’ library.
In addition, the winners for the grand jury’s U.S. narrative short, documentary short, outstanding international narrative short,
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