26th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival – Outfest 2008 Awards Winners

Yesterday the fest announced the award winners and here they are.

Outstanding US Dramatic Feature: Were The World Mine, Thomas Gustafson, USA, 2008
Outstanding International Dramatic Feature: XXY, Lucia Puenzo, Argentina, France and Spain, 2007
Outstanding Documentary Feature: Sex Positive, Daryl Wein, USA, 2008
Outstanding Actor: Tye Olson for Watercolors, David Oliveras, USA, 2008
Outstanding Actress: Nicole Bilderback for The New Twenty, Chris Mason Johnson, USA, 2008
Outstanding Screenwriting: James Bolton for Dream Boy, James Bolton, USA, 2008 (seems interesting beyond the gay interest label)
Outstanding Dramatic Short: Countertransference, Madeleine Olnek, USA, 2008 (this short is part of a feature-length film)
Outstanding Documentary Short: La Corona (The Crown), Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega, USA, 2008 (A Must Be Seen for me)

Outfest Freedom Award: Football Under Cover, David Assmann and Ayat Najafi, Germany and Iran, 2008 (female soccer teams in Iran… seems interesting)
Outstanding Emerging Talent: Dave O’Brien for Equality U, USA, 2008
Outstanding Artistic Achievement: Matt Wolf for Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, USA, 2008

Audience Awards
Outstanding Dramatic Feature: Hamlet 2, Andrew Fleming, USA, 2008
Outstanding First Dramatic Feature: Watercolors, David Oliveras, USA, 2008
Outstanding Documentary: A Place To Live, Carolyn Coal, USA, 2008
Outstanding Dramatic Short: I’m Jin-Young, Lee Sung-eun, Korea, 2006 (seems interesting)
Outstanding Documentary Short: La Corona (The Crown), Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega, USA, 2008

To check the press release go here.