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• THE MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL - NOW MIFO
• MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL: FIVE CAN'T-MISS MOVI AND PARTI GALORE
• THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL COM OF AGE DURG A TRANSNAL YEAR
• MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL
• MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL TO OPEN THE “STRAIGHT JACKET”
• MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL INC. MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL INC.
• MORE MOVI, BIGGER AUDIENC: MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL CONTU TO GROW S 7TH YEA
• MOST ANTICIPATED FILMS AT THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL 2015
• FESTIVALS | ORANGE IS THE NEW PK: THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL
• FIVE MT-SEE FILMS AT THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL

THE MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL - NOW MIFO

The Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival (MGLFF), a crilly acclaimed event, started 1998 and is based the world-renowned historic South Beach neighborhood wh addnal films screened at lotns throughout Miami-Da County. The Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival is mted to s missn: To spire, enterta and te the public, enurage a sense of muny through ternatnal and culturally diverse film, vio and other media that offer historil and ntemporary perspectiv on the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr experience. The Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival is an ternatnally acclaimed event servg as a platform for numero World Premiers, North Amerin Premiers and East Coast Premiers.

The Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival is the first MAJOR LGBT film ftival to occur the lendar year, settg the tone for the entire LGBT film ftival season.

The Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival started 1998; the Fort Lrdale Gay & Lbian Film Ftival 2008.

MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL: FIVE CAN'T-MISS MOVI AND PARTI GALORE

), the Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival (MGLFF) has bee one of the top LGBT film ftivals the 's no wonr why.

The Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival Com of Age Durg a Transnal Year.

Courty of Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival. Durg s fifth year on the scene, the Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, which ran April 24-May 4, faced many challeng.

THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL COM OF AGE DURG A TRANSNAL YEAR

The ftival rose to the ocsn wh the help of new executive director Phillip Matthews and the eclectic taste of program director Carol Coomb, liverg a selectn of films celebratg the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr experience all s diversy.

Saturday’s double bill at the Paradiso opened wh Kristen Coury’s gay gangster flick “Friends and Fay, ” followed by ftival favore Everett Lewis’ “Lter. ” The story of a gay uple that happens to be mafia hmen, “Friends and Fay” was an dience light, not dimished by the appearance of star Brian Lane Green. Julien Hernanz’s “Sex, Polics and Cocktails, ” about a pennils Cuban-Amerin filmmaker Hollywood, and Francc Bellmunt’s “Lisistrata, ” a Mel Brooks-like edy about ancient Greek warrrs forced to homosexualy, featurg Maribel Verdú om “Y Tu Mama Tambien” were both well attend and received by Miami’s sizable gay Lato muny.

MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL

Pasoli has a dnken, yet largely nocent sexual enunter wh three boys at a village fair and is soon unr vtigatn for his homosexual tennci. Already ma notor by a now legendary exposé Rollg Stone magaze, “The Gift” explor the gay male subculture of HIV “gift givers, ” or HIV-posive men who knowgly spread the HIV vis through unprotected sex.

The film was a soberg prence an otherwise largely celebratory ftival, speakg to a generatn of gay men who ntue to stggle wh the spread of HIV.

“The Gift” was appropriately screened wh “Hard Fat, ” another ntroversial film explorg the culture of “gaers, ” gay men who ga weight as a sexual fetish. Dpe s rocky road, the 2003 MGLFF prented a selectn of films that would be as hard to tegorize as the gay, lbian and transgenr muny self.

MIAMI GAY & LBIAN FILM FTIVAL TO OPEN THE “STRAIGHT JACKET”

In the world of gay/lbian/transgenr film ftivals, New York, San Francis and Los Angel domate. The Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival, a crilly acclaimed event, is based the world-renowned historic South Beach neighborhood and screens films and vios lotns throughout Miami-Da unty and Ft. Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival to Open the “Straight Jacket”.

The sixth annual Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival will open April 23rd wh the East Coast premiere of Richard Day‘s “Straight Jacket, ” herg a ten-day event featurg 80 films om around the world.

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Set the 1950s, “Straight Jacket” is the story of a reprsed movie star for whom the stud arrang a sham marriage wh an employee orr to disguise his homosexualy. The film, acrdg to a ft release, is “the story of the unlikely bond that forms between two very different dividuals, a succsful gay ntist his thirti and his prec ne-year-old nephew.

MORE MOVI, BIGGER AUDIENC: MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL CONTU TO GROW S 7TH YEA

“The 2004 ftival ntu the Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival’s tradn of cuttg edge rponsivens to the ntual chang and evolutns gay and lbian inti, ” mented MGLFF ftival manager Jaie Laplante an event release. “We’ve always worked to expand the notn of what gay and lbian cema n be – and this year our ever-expandg dience will be thrilled wh a rich selectn of new disveri, both on the screen and wh themselv. Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival State | IRS lg year: 2014 | EIN: 65-0830266 Organizatn Missn THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE MIAMI GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL INC., IS TO FOSTER AN INTEREST IN & RAISE AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE & CONCERNS OF THE GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL & TRANSEXUAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH InformatnRatg ReportImpact & RultsAcuntabily & FanceCulture & CommunyLearship & AdaptabilyAcuntabily & FanceImpact & RultsAcuntabily & FanceCulture & CommunyLearship & AdaptabilyAcuntabily & FanceMiami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival Inc.

More Movi, Bigger Audienc: Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival Contu to Grow s 7th Year. Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival openg night host Bea Arthur wh pianist Billy Golnberg (left) and ftival director of operatns, Jaie Laplante. Image urty of Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival.

Wh a rerd 84 films on the slate, and dienc up 20 percent, the Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival wrapped this week, fishg strong s seventh year. “It’s a semi-tobgraphil twenty-four mute edy about a sixteen-year old kid who to the realizatn that he might be gay, and the first date he go on. “I wanted to do somethg fun, light-hearted and posive… to show a regular kid tryg to fd himself, gog through all the problems a 16-year old go through, but on top of all, he also happens to be gay.

MOST ANTICIPATED FILMS AT THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL 2015

Wners of the dience award “Ltle Man” director Nile Conn, producer Daniel Jabson and Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival program director Carol Coomb.

Bt documentary went to Marn Lipschutz‘s “The Edutn of Shelby Knox, ” about a 15-year-old girl’s transformatn om a nservative Southern Baptist to a liberal Christian, as she fights for sex tn and gay rights small-town Texas.

Between the sold-out screengs, special prentatns, and r parti, ’s clear that the Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival has h s stri. It's hard to be a queer film lover sometim; stgglg to fd movi that offer reasonable reprentatn or narrativ more tertg than "hunky gay man falls love".

FESTIVALS | ORANGE IS THE NEW PK: THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL

Cue the Miami Gay & Lbian Film Ftival, whose 17th edn kicks off this Friday wh Boulevard, starrg Rob Williams. This time, wh Tab Hunter Confintial, 's all about the '50s boy next door Hunter, and his reer Hollywood as a closeted homosexual. Game Face tells the parallel stori of the first trans MMA pro fighter and a gay llege basketball player Oklahoma, followg the obstacl they al wh due to their rpective queer inti.

“Florida is excement, ’s sunshe, happs, relaxatn … and all really hot-lookg people, ” said Carrie Wt, Print of the GaYBOR District Coaln Tampa’s Ybor Cy. Year-round, gay tourists om all over the world e to Florida to enjoy everythg om paras to film ftivals to roo events terg to the LGBTQ muny.

While the foc of this ftival is the dozens of documentari and short films chroniclg the liv of gay, lbian, bisexual and transsexual people, some e jt for the fancy soire.

FIVE MT-SEE FILMS AT THE MIAMI GAY AND LBIAN FILM FTIVAL

Gay Memorial Day Weekend, Pensala (late May).

Gay Days Orlando (first weekend June). What began 1991 as an unofficial weekend where LGBTQ visors show up at Disney World and wear red has blossomed to one of the world’s most popular and well-known weekends for gay and lbian tourist.

“We were voted the number one global statn 2013, which we’re exced about, ” said Chris Alexanr-Manley, Print of Gay Days, Inc. Miami Beach Gay Pri, Miami Beach (September). Tampa Gay and Lbian Film Ft, Tampa (October).

The Tampa Bay Bs Guild, the Bay Area Human Rights Coaln, and the Tampa Bay Gay Men’s Chos e together to host this film ftival, screened at the historic Tampa Theatre. The stars shone brightly on the ceilg of The Olympia Theater last week, while a Wurlzer played to an exced dience for the openg of the Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, which this year celebrated s 9th year of beg one of the first stops the untry for LGBT films. The orange brandg was explaed the ftival’s rog trailers (created by Onix Padron‘s pany O-TV Creative Servic, Inc., ) which proclaim that “orang are no longer the only u South Florida is known for, ” before givg an overview of the story of Ana Bryant, former spokwoman for Florida Orange Juice who fell to personal and profsnal disgrace after leadg a mpaign to repeal a gay rights ordance Miami Da unty.

Bryant’s galvanizg effect on the gay rights movement was explored even greater tail Jay Rosenblatt‘s fortuoly timed Bryant documentary short “I Jt Wanted to Be Somebody, ” which livered the dience a healthy dose of schan before Mike Roth and John Henng‘s feature “Savg Marriage” rced them to tears. One of numero docs alg wh the current marriage bate and the fallout om the Massachetts legalizatn of gay marriage, “Savg Marriage” is particularly strong based upon s treatment of the story as polil spense as follows the fight to prevent the Massachetts legislature om passg a nstutnal amendment that would jeopardize the (still uncerta) future of gay marriage.

Succeedg almost spe self is Canadian director Denis Langlois‘ strange ltle docudrama “Amnia – The Jam Brighton Enigma, ” the te story of a young man who wak up naked outsi a club Montreal wh no knowledge of his name or his history except that he is gay (unls he is nstctg an elaborate se). Dunn Roy and Tampa Gay Ftival Director Roberta Monroe. Filmmaker Andrea Meyerson was back Miami wh “Lghg Matters…the Men“, the third stallment of her seri on gay edians (the send part, “Lghg Matters…More, ” won last year’s dience documentary award), and she succsfully warmed up the crowd wh her own mi-standup route, jokg “I was nervo makg the men’s stallment, bee a filmmaker wants to please her dience, and ’s been a really long time sce I’ve pleased a man.

” She needn’t have worried, the sold-out dience gave a huge rponse to the film, and afterwards a select group of donors joed Myerson and one of the film’s subjects, gay edian Bob Smh, for the Producer’s Circle Dner at the swanky Ola Rtrant, while, simultaneoly, a women’s dner at the equally posh Afterglo club feted director Pratibha Parmar‘s crowd-pleasg Stland-set narrative “Na’s Heavenly Delights, ” a sweet story about two women who fall love while attemptg to w a curry petn to vdite the reputatn of one’s father, a ceased Indian rtrant owner. MGLFF’s jury prize for documentary was award to “Red Whout Blue, ” which two intil tw brothers have their relatnship tted when one begs to intify as a woman, and the dience award for documentary went to Will Parello‘s tribute “Ee Norman – By His Own Dign, ” about the gay art signer and his partner of 30 years, Brooks Clements.

The Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, (MGLFF) now s 13th year, is back.

Tom Cullen (Rsell) and Chris New (Glen) meet at a gay club and. Haigh do a great job of troducg social issu such as gay marriage.