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I don't know about everyone being gay in gay cinema, but generally gay cinema prides itself on having, well, gay people. It's about gay culture and gay lifestyle so, consequently, its gonna have a lot of teh gay. In a "black movie" there happens to be a lot of black people, not because they believe white people don't exist or don't want them to exist, but because it's about their experience as black people. It's not that straight people and the gay community don't interact, it just happens that if you're gay in SF, for example, you probably know a lot more gay people than your straight counterpart.
You could say the same thing about "straight, white movies" with no minorities or homosexuals. Is that wish fulfillment? If its Gone with the Wind...then yes.
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Evlsushi - Hedwig is the story of a boy who leaves E. Germany to start another life but has to have a sex change to do it but the sex change is botched and he's left with an inch for his troubles. In her new persona, she goes out and discovers the world but loses pieces of herself along the way. It's only by embracing all of her personae does she begin to heal and become someone complete again. It plays a lot on Plato's ideas of people finding their other "half".
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Um, that's the textbook summary, but I was actually alluding to some of the less literal portions of the film. Like the last 20 minutes, wtf? I was pretty much reduced to "tree pretty, fire bad" status.
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I'm am so there.
P.S. Could someone explain Hedwig to me? I was a confused mess the whole time. Music was great though.
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I don't think he meant it offensively...
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The others were for Martha Jones.
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the film has won the following awards:
Awards at Film Festivals
Grand Jury Award for Outstanding U.S. Dramatic Feature (Heineken Red Star Award): Outfest 2008
James Lyon Editing Award for Narrative Feature: 2008 Woodstock Film Festival
Scion Award for First-Time Director: 2008 Philadelphia Int'l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Best Music in a Narrative Feature Film and Best LGBT Feature Film: 2008 Nashville Film Festival
Directors Award: 2008 Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Overall Film: 2008 Fort Worth Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Adam Baran Rainbow Award for Best Narrative Feature: 2008 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Feature Film: 2008 Outflix Film Festival
Audience Awards:
Best Narrative Feature: 2008 Florida Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature: 2008 Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Best Feature: 2008 Inside Out Toronto
Best Feature: 2008 Kansas City Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Best Feature: Cinema Diverse 2008: Palm Springs GLFF
Grand Prize Best Feature: Rhode Island International Film Festival 2008
Best Feature: 2008 Vancouver Queer Film Festival
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"My first day as a woman and already it's that time of the month."
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