Nearly 600 people flocked to The Art Theater this past weekend to take in The 4th Annual Q Film Festival which was sponsored by The Center, Long Beach. The festival presented a wide mix of feature films, short films and documentaries which focused on issues that impact the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
The Q Film Festival Committee is also proud to announce the list of award recipients from this year’s festival:
Best Short Film: Sondra Stingray: Sapphic Gumshoe
Best Documentary Short Film: La Corona
Best Director Short Film: Heather de Michele for Sondra Stingray: Sapphic Gumshoe
Outstanding Artist Achievement in a Short Film: What I Found in Great Aunt Nell’s Closet
Best Feature: I Can’t Think Straight
Best Documentary Feature: A Place to Live; The Story of Triangle Square
Best Director Feature Film: Amber Sharp: Don’t Go
Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film: Were the World Mine
Outstanding Emerging Talent: Camrin Pitts
Q Film Fest Maverick Award: Charlene Strong: For My Wife
The Art Theatre Announces
QFilm Festival!
A Place To Live; The Story of Triangle Square cast with producer Cynthia Childs and director Carolyn Coal
Q & A with filmmakers and cast members
Executive Director of the Center, Kimberlee Woods (center) shown with filmmakers of Showgirls; Provincetown, MA: Producer, Debra Schneider and director C. Fitz
Star of The Constant Process: Rev. Susan Russell with director Douglas Hunter
Executive Director of the Center, Kimberlee Woods (center) shown with director Amber Sharp of Don’t Go and director Camrin Pitts of Let It Reign: Imperial Court
Tru Loved cast: Tye Olson, Matthew Thompson, Najarra Townsend and director Stewart Wade
Cast of Dirty Magazines: Susan Brittan and Frances Manzo with director Jay J. Levy
For My Wife: director David Rothmiller and producer LD Thompson
Nikki Coldwater
Cast of Imperial Court: Let It Reign with directors Kathleen and Camrin Pitts
Ron Sylvester, Holly Light, Robert Cano, Kimberlee Woods, Kathleen Pitts, Camrin Pitts
The QFilm Crew
Huge Thanks to everyone who made QFilm Festival 2009 a smashing success!
MISSION & OBJECTIVE The Center Long Beach Q Film Festival's mission is to present films that embody the LGBTQ community. Along with The Center Long Beach, we advocate the inclusion of all individuals into a free and just community, without judgment or restriction due to sexual orientation or gender expression. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions are no longer being accepted for the 2009 QFilm Festival. Please check back for updates on the 2010 Festival, as they become available.
