Unicycle Films News

Sunday, Oct 22, 2006/ New York City – Rounding out a near-week of parties, panels and screenings, CineKink NYC filmmakers and fans gathered on Sunday night for the film festival’s gala closing ceremony and announcements of awards in a range of categories.
JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORTS – “CineKink Best” awards, which go to short works in competition during the festival, were determined by jury deliberation and ranking. The 2006 award winners are:

CineKink Best Narrative Short (tie):
“Hitchcocked” (David Young, 2006, USA, 8 minutes)
A hot, casual encounter stirs up some surprising truths about love, life, online-dating…and danger.
-and- “guy101” (Ian Gouldstone, 2005, UK, 8 minutes)
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.

This year’s CineKink jurors included filmmaker Francesca Rizzo, winner
of a CineKink Best Award last year for her short “Sullivan’s Last Call;”
Thor Stockman, creator and presenter of the popular film clip program
“S/M at the Movies: The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous;” and Bill Woods, a film festival programmer and curator of the New Filmmakers series at Anthology Film Archives.

Post-screening Q&A at Anthology Film Archives with DMY and CineKink’s Artistic Dir. & Co-Founder, Lisa Vanderveer.
photo credit: Michael P. Randazzo
http://www.MPRProductions.com
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*Now in it’s 4th year, CineKink 2006 was cited earlier this month by
Chris Gore as one of his “Film Festival Road Trips Worth the Gas.”

Festival board member Joe Zamzow, DMY, & patron Henry Perez @ Miami G&LFF’s Closing Night Party, April 30th.

 HITCHCOCKED co-star Yuval David and director DMY
at the film’s Reception Party at Miami’s South Beach/Lincoln Road hotspot Score on April 22nd. Partygoers enjoyed meeting and mingling with Yuval, sneak-previewing clips from the film, and sipping their complimentary “Hitch-cocktails.”

The 2006 Fire Island Film and Video Festival announced it’s Jury and Audience awards Oct 7th.

The Audience Awards Winners are;
Best Feature  -  A Very Serious Person (Charles Busch, 2006, USA, 100 min)
Best Male Short Film -  Hitchcocked (David M. Young, USA, 2006, 8 min)
Best Female Short Film -  His Name Is Cosmo (Nicole Opper & Laura Terruso, USA, 2006, 18 min)
Best Full Length Documentary -  Left Lane  (Samantha Farinella, USA, 2004, 93 min)
Best Short Documentary -  Invasion of the Pines (Jon Morrow, USA, 2005, 8.5 min)

In its European Premiere at the Lisbon Gay & Lesbian Film Festival “Hitchcocked” was honored last week with the “Audience Award for Best Short Film.” This year marks the third film by David M. Young to screen in the Lisbon G&LFF, but the first such win.

From the www.lisbonfilmfest.org website:
“The winners of the 10th Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival were announced during the closing ceremony, the past Saturday, the 23rd September, at the Cinema São Jorge.

Best Short-Film

The Audience Award, voted after each screening – in which a total of 2,033 spectators participated – went to the short fiction Hitchcocked, directed by David M. Young (USA, 2006), with an average of 8.2 points, on a scale of 1 to 10.

- Oct 1 Austin GLIFF, @12:45pm Regal Arbor/Great Hills, in “Didn’t See That Coming”

- Oct 2 Closet Cinema: Southwest G&LFF, 8:45pm@ The Guild/Albuquerque, in “Where The Boys Are”

- Oct 12 ImageOut:Rochester L&GF&VF, 7:30pm@ Little 1, in “Naughty Boys and a Funeral”