Dear Friends,
We hope you enjoyed TIGLFF21, the films, the parties and the overall community experience. Our goal is to provide you with the very best in GLBT filmmaking from around the world, and to give you a rich environment to celebrate, not only our stories on screen, but also a space to create special moments. Moments and memories that last a lifetime.
We would like to thank everyone for the role you each play in making this festival a success: our sponsors, donors, grant funders, the Alan Dusowitz endowment, advertisers, community partners, media partners, hundreds of volunteers, the actors, filmmakers, distributors and most of all our audience, the people who come to watch.
Without all of you, Tampa would not be one of the leading GLBT COMMUNITY film festivals in the world. It is your love for film, community and one another that shows every October when we grace the Tampa Theatre with these enduring values.
So, as we close the 21st festival, we begin the work for the 22nd festival. We hope that you have been so inspired to participate once again in the coming year and perhaps even raise the bar and your level of involvement, from committee work to board service. And it’s never too early to make a donation toward TIGLFF22, you can easily do that now online.
If you would like to find out more about serving on a committee or joining as a board member please contact Gene Webster-English at gene@tiglff.com.
If you would like to volunteer to help with events, please e-mail Bill Kanouff at bill@tiglff.com.
Thank you for another amazing and memorable year together – Cheers!
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Jury Awards:
1. Best Full Length Feature Film/Video: Eyes Wide Open, Director Haim Tabakman; 2009, Israel, 90 min.
2. Best Documentary Film/Video: Making the Boys, Director Crayton Robey; 2008, USA, 90 min.
3. Best Men’s Short Film/Video: Gay Shark Tank, Director Guy Shalem, 2010, USA, 15 min.
4. Best Women’s Short Film/Video: Loop Planes, Writer/Director Robin Wilby, 2010, USA, 11 min.
Emerging Filmmaker Awards:
In honor of Alan Ira Dusowitz, whose estate established the Friends of the Festival Endowment in 2009.
1. Best Emerging Filmmaker for a Full Length Feature Film/Video: Director Haim Tabakman, Eyes Wide Open; 2009, Israel, 90 min.
2. Best Emerging Filmmaker for a Short Film/Video: Director Deana Williams, Tracks; 2009, USA, 25 min.
Audience Favorite Awards:
1. Best Men’s Feature Film/Video: Fit, Director Rikki Beadle-Blair; 2009, UK, 108 min.
2. Best Women’s Feature Film/Video: Elena Undone, Director Nicole Conn; 2010, USA, 111 min.
3. Best Documentary Film/Video: Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Director Leanne Pooley; 2009. New Zealand, 84 min.
4. B est Men’s Short Film/Video: GoGo Reject, Director: Heath Daniels, 2010, USA, 20 min.
5. Best Women’s Short Film/Video: Tanz ins Gluck (Dancing to Happiness), Director: Barbara Seiler, 2008, Switzerland, 16 min.
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