North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

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North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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Front of Carolina Theatre during 2018 festival
Location Durham, North Carolina
Established1995
Disestablished2019
Successor OutSouth Queer Film Festival
Website Carolina Theatre

The North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Festival is an annual LGBT film festival produced by the Carolina Theater in Durham, North Carolina, typically held in mid-August. The festival has been credited in previous years as the second largest LGBT film/video festival in the Southeastern United States. [1]

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The festival debuted in 1995 as the Q Film Fest, renaming itself in the following year to the name it holds now. It has been consistently hosted in the same venue each year. The festival organizers have announced that the festival will change its name again in 2020 to OutSouth Queer Film Festival. [2]

Programming

The NCGLFF is international in its focus, screening and occasionally opening selected films and inviting filmmakers and actors from the screened films to attend. The three individual theater venues are in the same building and each are dedicated to the festival's programming.

The festival's program size has varied over the years. For many of its first years, the festival was typically a four-day event (Thursday through Sunday) and has attracted an average of 10,000 patrons each year. In 2012, the NCGLFF expanded to a full week, bridging across two weekends. [3] The festival has since reduced back down to a four-day program with an extended Après-Fest in the week following. [4]

Awards

The Festival has given a variety of awards to screened films over the years. Awards have been historically divided into Men's, Women's, and Trans categories and also divided on film length.

NCGLFF Audience Awards
YearCategoryWinnerReference
2012Men's Feature The Men Next Door [5]
Women's Feature Cloudburst
Documentary Wish Me Away
2013
2014Men's Feature More Scenes from a Gay Marriage [6]
Women's Feature Tru Love (film)
Short Film Electric Indigo (film)
2015Men's Feature Better Half and Upstairs Inferno (tie) [7]
Women's Feature Margarita with a Straw
Trans Feature From This Day Forward
2016Men's Feature What's the Matter with Gerald? [8]
Women's International Short Rose (2016 film)
Documentary Feature The Freedom to Marry
2017Trans Feature Apricot Groves [9]
Documentary Feature Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall [10]
Men's Feature A Very Sordid Wedding
2018Men's Feature My Big Gay Italian Wedding [11]
Women's Feature Freelancers Anonymous [12]
Trans Feature TransMilitary [13]
Documentary To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v Windsor [14]
2019Comedy Film These Thems [15]
Drama Film From Zero to I Love You
Foreign Film The Shiny Shrimps
Documentary Film Gay Chorus Deep South
NCGLFF Jury Awards
YearCategoryWinnerReference
2015Men's Feature 4th Man Out [16]
Women's Feature ALTO
2016Men's Feature Retake [17]
Women's Feature AWOL
Trans Feature Girls Lost
2017
2018Men's Feature Evening Shadows [18]
Women's Feature Freelancers Anonymous
Trans Feature TransMilitary

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