{"id":587,"date":"2015-07-13T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/?p=587"},"modified":"2015-07-13T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:00:25","slug":"latest-film-awards-and-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/latest-film-awards-and-screenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Film, Awards and Screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New in my email inbox reminded me that there&#8217;s so much going on that I sometimes forget to share the good news. <strong>My latest animation short,\u00a0&#8220;Happy &amp; Gay&#8221;<\/strong>, is a 1930s queer revisionist history cartoon musical. Its first festival screening was Sept 2014. Since then, it&#8217;s played internationally and scooped up some nice awards along the way. The mailbox news was that my film won the Best Animation at the Rio Gay Fest (Rio de Janeiro) this week. I&#8217;ve had time to apply to some festivals, and then rely on being invited (again, it&#8217;s been so busy.) Here&#8217;s a breakdown of some of the activity so far:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong><br \/>\nJury Award for Best Animation: <a href=\"www.riofgc.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Gay Festival du Cinema<\/a>, Brazil, 2015<br \/>\nJury Award for Best Short Film: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesgaicinemad.com\/\">Les Gai CineMad: Madrid LGBT Film Fest<\/a>; 2014<br \/>\nJury Award for Best Animation: <a href=\"http:\/\/outonfilm.org\/Films.html\">Atlanta Out On Film Festival<\/a>; Atlanta Georgia USA; ; 2015<br \/>\nAudience Award: <a href=\"http:\/\/outonfilm.org\/Films.html\">Atlanta Out On Film Festival<\/a> Nov, 2014, Atlanta Georgia USA; 2014<br \/>\nAward for Best Animation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.image-nation.org\">Image+Nation LGBT Cinema Festival, Montreal<\/a>; 2015<br \/>\nSpecial Mention, Can[Be] Gay, Festival de Cine LGBTIQ de Canarias; 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOUR INCLUSION<\/strong><br \/>\nDiversanima, touring Chile and Latin America (various)<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIAL PROGRAMMING<\/strong><br \/>\nQueers in Shorts, Cambridge UK<\/p>\n<p><strong>SCREENINGS, Official Selection in Competition<\/strong><br \/>\nSiggraph Asia (Shenzen, China) Nov, 2014 Shenzen China<br \/>\nFrameline39: San Fran Int&#8217;l LGBT Film Festival 2015<br \/>\nANIMATOR \/ 2015 The 8th International Animated Film Festival, Poland, Poznan<br \/>\nImage+Nation LGBT Cinema Festival, Montreal<br \/>\nInsideOut Toronto<br \/>\nIn&amp;Out LGBT Film festival<br \/>\nBilbao Festival of Documentary &amp; Short Films-ZINEBI, Spain<br \/>\nFestival Int&#8217;l Derechos Humanos y Cine Venezuela, Venezula<br \/>\nMerlinka Int&#8217;l Queer Film Festival, Belgrade<br \/>\nAnim&#8217;Est Int&#8217;l Animation Film Festival, Romania<br \/>\nAtlanta Out On Film Festival, USA<br \/>\nAtlantic Film Festival, Nova Scotia<br \/>\nAthens AnimFest, Greece<br \/>\nBoston LGBT Film Festival<br \/>\nHolebi Queer Film Festival, Germany<br \/>\nCan[Be]Gay: Festival Int\u2019l de CineLGBTIQ de Canarias, Canary Islands<br \/>\nRoze FilmDagen, Amsterdam Gay &amp; Lesbian Film Festival, Holland<br \/>\nTurin Gay &amp; Lesbian Film Festival, Italy<br \/>\nVancouver Int\u2019l Women in Film Festival<br \/>\nTorino LGBT Film Festival, Italy<br \/>\nWomen in Film Festival, Florida US<br \/>\nANIMATE 2015, Poland<br \/>\nCuradoria e Dire\u00e7\u00e3o do Rio Festival Gay de Cinema<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New in my email inbox reminded me that there&#8217;s so much going on that I sometimes forget to share the good news. My latest animation short,\u00a0&#8220;Happy &amp; Gay&#8221;, is a 1930s queer revisionist history cartoon musical. Its first festival screening was Sept 2014. Since then, it&#8217;s played internationally and scooped up some nice awards along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loreleipepi.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}