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6th Annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Logo
April 23rd to May 2nd

CLOSING NIGHT GALA


D.E.B.S.

D.E.B.S.

Sunday, May 2
Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
7:00 pm East Coast Premiere

Preceeded by HBO "Best of the Festival" Awards Ceremony

MGLFF Program Director Carol Coombes hosts the HBO "Best of the Festival" Awards Ceremony and announces the winners in the juried categories of the $1,000 Best Fiction Feature, the $1,000 Best Documentary and Best Short, and Wolfe Career Achievement Award presented to producer Andrea Sperling

Bongos
9:30pm Closing Night Gala
Bongos Cuban Café 601 Biscayne Blvd. in the American Airlines Arena
(from the Gusman - go eastbound on SE 1st St. to Biscayne Blvd., turn left (northbound) and drive 7 blocks - the American Airlines Arena is on the right-hand side, drive around the back to enter the parking garage under the building and climb the stairs to the entrance of Bongos Cuban Café)
$46 GALA TICKET includes Film Screening at the Gusman
$26 Film Screening Only


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Close out 10 days of MGLFF in the stylish tropical deco setting of international music superstars Emilio and Gloria Estefan's gorgeous waterfront Cuban nightclub. Party with all our international and national industry guests, as well as local MGLFF friends, as we say goodbye to the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival until next year! Festival Manager Jaie Laplante will announce the winner of the HBO Audience Favorite Award as soon as the final ballots are tabulated after the final screening of the Festival.

House DJ George spins sexy Latin beats, with one hour of complimentary Absolut cocktails and Perrier bottled water, with light hors d'oeuvres from Bongos' kitchen of authentic Cuban cuisine.

Special guests include D.E.B.S. producer Andrea Sperling, recipient of the Wolfe Career Achievement Award, and D.E.B.S. director Angela Robinson.

CLOSING NIGHT HOST COMMITTEE

Arlene M. De la Torre, Co-Chair
Karen Olin, Co-Chair
Ro Patton, Co-Chair
DJ Masterpiece
Cindy Brown
Clara Eshkenazi & Lark Bennett
Nancy Mendez-Perez
Elizabeth Schwartz
Robin Schwartz
Soraya Swingen & Fran Roderick
Carol White


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