Screenings, Pix, Press
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 -Â Hitchcocked (David M. Young, USA, 2006, 8 min)
Best Female Short Film -Â 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 -Â 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”
- Oct 14 Tampa IG&LFF, 5:30pm@ Tampa Theatre, in “Length Doesn’t Matter”
- Oct 15 Sacramento IG&LFF, 1:00pm@ Crest Theater, w/ feature “Queens(Reinas)”
- Oct 18 Reel Pride: Michigan, 7:30pm@ Main Art Theatre, in “Out! In Boys Shorts”
- Oct. 21 Cinekink(NYC), 6:30pm@ Anthology Film Archives, in “Power Plays”
- Oct. 22 Pittsburgh IL&GFF, 9:15pm @ Harris Theater, in “Any Man’s Needs”
- Oct. 31 OutTakes:Dallas, 7:05pm@ The Magnolia Theatre, w/ feature “Creatures from the Pink Lagoon”
- Sept. 2 DecaFest/ New Orleans, at N.O. Contemporary Arts Ctr: Freeport Thea.@5pm
- Sept. 13 Fire Island Film Festival/Cherry Grove, at the Community House @ 11pm
- Sept. 15 Fire Island Film Festival/Cherry Grove, at the Community House @ 4:30pm
- Sept. 16 Fresno: Reel Pride/Tower Theatre, in “Available Men” (Boys Shorts) @ 4:30pm
- Sept. 17 Lisbon G&LFF/Cinema Quarto, Lisboa, Portugal @7:30pm
- Sept. 17 Boston Film Night/Regent Thea. Arlington, MA @7pm
- Sept. 24 Lisbon G&LFF/Cinema Quarto, Lisboa, Portugal @3:30pm
- Sept. 24 Downtown Dayton LGBT FF/The Neon Theatre, Dayton,OH(check Neon for time)
- Sept. 30 Closet Cinema:Southwest G&LFF/Santa Fe Film Center, Santa Fe,NM(time TBA)
- Oct. 3 Closet Cinema:Southwest G&LFF/TBA, Albuquerque, NM(time TBA)
HITCHCOCKED has been selected for screening at the 2006 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, perhaps the most prestigious festival for short films in the US.Screening in the “Queer…With a Twist†program, HITCHCOCKED will play on Monday August 28, 2006 @ 8pm at the Camelot Theatres. Tickets and full program information can be found at:
http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=18946&fid=26
I was pleased to attend the Rhode Island Int’l. Film Fest 2006 for the second year in a row as a visiting filmmaker. (LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT was an official selection in RIIFF’05.) The screening ran Sat. Aug. 12th at the Castle Cinema, an early 1900′s Deco-style theatre in Providence. HITCHCOCKED ran ahead of Rob Williams’ charming feature LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP. For those who have seen my short , I think you’ll agree this was a fine choice from RIIFF Programmer, Don Farias. The Q&A was one of my favorites, as the RI audience dove in with diverse comments and questions. And, affirmed one of my main goals: to help motivate people to think and talk about some of life’s more meaningful issues.
Again this year, heartfelt thanks go out to my local Festival hosts Don and Richard, seen above flanked by filmmaker Joshua Frankel(BICYCLE MESSENGERS) and myself.
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