Over $40,000 in prizes were given to the winners of the 2019 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival Toronto with top honors going to Garin Nugroho for MEMORIES OF MY BODY for Inside Out Special Award for Innovation, Xiang Zi for A DOG BARKING AT THE MOON for Best First Feature, and Megan Wennberg for DRAG KIDS for Best Canadian Feature.
The Audience Award winners included Samantha Lee’s BILLIE AND EMMA for Best Narrative Feature, Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s WE ARE THE RADICAL MONARCHS for Best Documentary Feature and Jamie Dispirito’s THRIVE for Best Short Film.
The festival, which launched the first ever annual LGBTQ Finance Forum, has become an international home and incubator for LGBT filmmakers, both emerging and established. The 2019 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival ran from May 23 to June 2 in Toronto at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and screened 153 films from 30 countries.
The festival also announced the winner of its annual “Pitch, Please” contest to director Rain Valdez for RE-LIVE: A TALE OF A 30-YEAR-OLD CHEERLEADER. The prize involves a cash production grant of $5,000 sponsored by Netflix, as well as a $10,000 in-kind package sponsored by Sim International, EP Canada, Bedtracks, Final Draft, Lewis Brinberg Hanet and Behind The Scenes Services.
Winners and Awards of 2019 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival Toronto
CANADIAN JURIED AWARDS
Best Canadian Feature
DRAG KIDS – Director, Megan Wennberg
Emerging Canadian Artist
SKIES ARE NOT JUST BLUE – Director, Lysandre Cosse-Tremblay
Best Canadian Short
SOFT SPOT – Director, Justine Stevens
Honorable Mention
TERMINALLY IN LOVE – Directors, Emily Jenkins and Justin Black
INTERNATIONAL JURIED AWARDS
Inside Out Special Award for Innovation
MEMORIES OF MY BODY – Director Garin Nugroho
Best First Feature
A DOG BARKING AT THE MOON – Director Xiang Zi
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
BILLIE AND EMMA – Director, Samantha Lee
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
WE ARE THE RADICAL MONARCHS – Director, Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Audience Award for Best Short Film
THRIVE – Director, Jamie Dispirito
There is a lunacy possessing swathes of our population that have finally and utterly seared their consciences.
Behavior we’d consider disgustingly vulgar, warped, perverse if inculcated in little GIRLS (think about it: is that the environment you’d want your DAUGHTER in?) suddenly becomes “liberating” when profoundly stunted adults desperately scrambling after their own validation inculcate it in little boys-PRETENDING-to-be-girls.
That somehow makes it alright, “enlightened,” “woke”.
To imagine the “parents” who encourage their children in this…it speaks reams about their own barrenness of soul, their own DESPERATE craving for social approbation…at ANY price…even THIS one….
Andy Warhol predicted everyone would eventually be famous…for fifteen minutes. With that he crisply encapsulated the Modern Moloch on whose altar today’s worshippers will gladly sacrifice their children for just the briefest taste of that fame, even if vicarious. The Modern Moloch is the Commercial-Entertainment Complex, propelled by Big Corp Money, and its hunger for fresh victims is insatiable.