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Exclusive: The 2024 Inside Out 2Slgbtq+ Film Festival has revealed the award winners for the 34th edition of the festival, with $22,500 in prizes handed out to various 2Slgbtq+ filmmakers. Laurie Townshend’s A Mother Apart, received three awards including Best First Feature and Best Canadian Feature juried awards as well as Audience Award for Best Documentary. Susie Yankou’s Sisters received the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, and Simon Gualtieri’s Friend of a Friend (Ami d’ami) won the Best Canadian Short Film.
The festival also announced Andrew Chappelle’s upcoming project, I’m Gonna Kill You, which won the annual “Pitch, Please!” contest. The “Pitch, Please!” competition took place in person on June 1 with competitors from across the globe presenting a short, two-minute pitch to a jury and audience. Prizes awarded to the winner include a cash production grant of $5,000 sponsored by Netflix.
The 34th edition of Inside...
The festival also announced Andrew Chappelle’s upcoming project, I’m Gonna Kill You, which won the annual “Pitch, Please!” contest. The “Pitch, Please!” competition took place in person on June 1 with competitors from across the globe presenting a short, two-minute pitch to a jury and audience. Prizes awarded to the winner include a cash production grant of $5,000 sponsored by Netflix.
The 34th edition of Inside...
- 6/3/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
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Embark on a stylish, energised short from Gianna Mazzeo which educates and delights with its playful explainer approach in The History of the Carabiner. As Mazzeo sat in a pre-production meeting she was astounded that no one in the gender diverse and queer group was aware of the storied biography of this enigmatic emblem of lesbian life and so dove straight into how she would tell the story. The History of the Carabiner, made in conjunction with WaterBear and Nikon Europe comprises an entirely queer, non-binary and lesbian cast whose individuality, pride and love for their accessory of choice and the lifestyle it denotes are dazzlingly captured and celebrated by Mazzeo. As The History of the Carabiner hits the pages of Dn we speak to Mazzeo about how much she struggled to find reliable source material and archival footage in her research, getting past her initial reluctance to use her...
- 4/29/2024
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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