I’m so tempted to post the winners for tonight’s Jury Prize and Audience Awards before tonight’s Awards ceremony. I’d also like to post the e-mails of behind the scenes chatter regarding, Gail Shister’s interview of Sharon Gless before the screening of Hanna Free and Sharon’s displeasure. But posting either thing would be poor intern/journalistic integrity. (Edge Philadelphia does a great job of summing up what we in the audience were feeling during the Q&A) Saturday, I saw the second screening of Fruit Fly, debut feature of writer/composer/director H.P. Mendoza. Mendoza is Filipino and the movie musical was funded by the Center for Asian American Media, hence the predominantly Asian cast.…

Attention students! If you must complete an internship before graduating, I highly recommend doing it with a film festival. And if you can find a LGBTQ festival, then I highly, highly recommend it! I’ve been cocktail partying, late night wine and cheesing, dancing, queer karokeing, learning the gayborhood and of course seeing films. (Oh, and yes, I have actually done some work, even some using html; so I’m in the clear in case my school internship advisor gets a hold of my blog). Chica Busca Chica (Girl Seeks Girl) is so fabulous! In some ways, because you’re getting a peek into these women’s lesbian lifestyle, it makes it more fabulous…

“It only takes a sip of wine to tell if it’s a good bottle”- one of my favorite lines from Pillow Talk . It’s Thelma Ritter’s (Alma) response after Doris Day (Jan Morrow) says she barely knows Rock Hudson (Rex Stetson). I must have seen this film at least 15x, but it was a rare treat to see the 1959 actual film (not DVD) on the big screen! Followed the next day, by Grease Sing A Long, I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen Grease, but this was my first outdoor screening of it, while eating Jamaican Goat and Plantains! Tonight’s Outdoor screening at Jamaican Jerk Hut (Wed. July…

Ticketing hotline was a buzz on Saturday, I guess even in this age of Internet automation, there’s still a need for person to person.Only saw one film, No End a peep into the life of the pretty lesbians next door, if you lived in Italy. Giulia (Cristina Serafini) and Chiara (love the playfully chic hairdo) (Irene Ivaldi) are partners ready to embark on the journey of artificial insemination, until Chiara finds a lump in her breast. Or as the subtitle translated – “You have a cancer to your breast”. The film’s director, Roberto Cuzzillo focus was not on content or character, it’s a film about light and shadow, making coffee,…

I choose the perfect film to see after my web design final on Friday. Actually, any film not about school, money or employment, would have been the perfect film. However, Drool really hit the spot. This hilarious dark comedy, is so my sense of humor. It’s off-beat and unexpectedly silly at times, with an underlining of meaningful stuff. In fact, it reminds me a bit of Little Miss Sunshine. Anora (Laura Harrington) is a pretty, but totally down-played, low, middle-class housewife, with two sullen kids, and a racist, abusive, jackass of a husband. She escapes all this by being vacant throughout most of her day and day dreams about looking…