MGLFF is delighted to present, for the third consecutive year, the Fifth Annual PlanetOut.com Short Movie Awards, presented by and hosted in collaboration with Planet Out .com. LGBT short films were eligible to compete for cash awards in 5 categories, with one film judged as the Grand Prize Winner. For the first time this year, the Planet Out shorts were judged by industry professionals in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. Lessons are delivered, sometimes with shocking consequences, in these tales of first crushes, septuagenarian friendship, family celebrations, delving in the underworld, fairytale romance and standing up for yourself.

Directors Q, Allan Brocka, Steve Hutton, Tony Osso and Lisa Thrasher from POWERUP will attend the screenings to accept their awards. POWERUP, a Los-Angeles based organization which nurtures lesbian filmmakers, have for the third consecutive year won the PlanetOut.com Grand Prize Award for best short film. We are delighted to present an encore screening of POWERUP's Grand Prize Winning films Stuck (2002) and D.E.B.S.(2003) (the feature length version is our Closing Night Gala presentation) before we unveil The Little Black Boot, our 2004 Grand Prize Winner.

bobbycrush
Dir. Cam Archer
United States, 2003, 35mm, 10 min
Florida Premiere
First Prize Experimental
The succulence of unrequited young love delivers its first harsh lesson in the school of love.

StandBy
Dir. Tony Osso
United States, 2003, video, 9 min
South Florida Premie
First Prize Drama
When a mother doesn't stand up for her gay son, the only thing to do is intervene.

Isn't It Obvious?
Dir. Michelle Prevost
United States, 2002, video, 9min
South Florida Premiere
First Prize Documentary
When asked at a party if she was a boy or a girl, Gwen Araujo, a Bay Area M-to-F transgendered Latina, replied "Isn't it Obvious?" which tragically led to her brutal and untimely death.

Night Life
Dir. Steve Hutton
United States, 2004, video, 8 min
World Premiere
First Prize Animation
Hired for a missing-person case, private eye Dick Gumshoe finds himself roaming the underworld of vampires, zombies and mummies in his most interesting case yet.

Seventy
Dir. Q. Allan Brocka
United States, 2003, video, 8 min
South Florida Premiere
First Prize Comedy
Two seniors celebrate their shared birthday. One of them, has a special unexpected gift for the other.

Stuck
Dir. Jamie Babbit
United States, 2002, video, 7 min
Grand Prize Winner 2002
A long time lesbian couple hits a serious bump in the road in this offbeat little fable.

D.E.B.S.
Dir. Angela Robertson
United States, 2002, video, 11 min
Grand Prize Winner 2003
This crew of sexy, gun-slinging elite trained chicks are seeking adventure. Come see the short again, and don't forget to book tickets for D.E.B.S. the feature.

The Little Black Boot
Dir. Colette Burson
United States, 2003, video, 16 min
East Coast Premiere
Grand Prize Winner
Appearances are not all they seem as the tale of Cinderella is given a make-over in this lesbian coming-of-age prom story.

Total running time: 82 min.
$12 non-members / $10 members

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