Leading the pack
of winners for the 2007 Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival was Shelter, for both the Audience
Award for Favorite Narrative Feature and the Jury Award for
Best New Director, Jonah Markowitz. The jury
recognized Markowitz "for his ability to
depict, with sympathy, the complexities of contemporary
struggles with class, sexuality, and
responsibility," according to a statement released
Tuesday.
More than 10,000
people visited the 10-day festival of parties,
discussion, and film. The event boasted showing 150
narrative features, documentaries, local films, and
shorts.
Below is the list
of winners in their categories:
Jury Awards
Best Narrative:
The Witnesses, Andre Techine,
director
Honorable
Mention: The King and the Clown, Jun-ik Lee,
director
Best New
Director: Jonah Markowitz, Shelter
Best Documentary:
Railroad All-Stars, Chema Rodriguez,
director
Honorable
Mention: Jerusalem Is Proud to Present, Nitzan
Gilady, director
Best Local Film:
Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat
City Roller Girls, Lainy Bagwell and Lacey Leavitt,
directors
Honorable
Mention: We Are GLBTQ, Derek Himeda, director
Best Short Film:
Pariah, Dee Rees, director
Honorable
Mention: My First Time Driving, Rebecca
Feldman, director
Most Innovative
Short Film: Salt, Campbell Farquhar, director
Honorable
Mention: Rock Pockets, Trevor Anderson,
director
Audience Awards
Favorite
Narrative Feature: Shelter, Jonah Markowitz,
director
Favorite
Documentary: Jerusalem Is Proud to Present,
Nitzan Gilady, director
Favorite Local
Film: Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat
City Roller Girls, Lainy Bagwell and Lacey Leavitt,
directors
Favorite Boy
Short: A Trip to Prague, Neil Ira Needleman,
director
Favorite Girl
Short: Pariah, Dee Rees, director (The
Advocate)
