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Twenty-four filmmakers and stars of the films to be shown at the 11th annual North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival have confirmed they will appear in Durham this month. This year's festival takes place August 10 – 13.

Directors and/or cast and crew from the films “The Young, The Gay, and The Restless,” “Swoop,” “Love Life,” “Boy Culture,” “Open,” “A Reprobate Mind,” “Fraternity Massacre on Hell Island,” “His Name is Cosmo,” “Moving Out,” “Long Term Relationship,” and Emerging Film Award Winner “Gillery’s Little Secret,” will be at the festival.

Allie Sultan, the director of the short film “Damage,” will also be in attendance.  “Damage” tells the tale of an awkward freshman who finds hope in the most unlikely of places, even amidst the cruelty and chaos of suburban high school life. The film is featured as part of the first ever NCGLFF Family Program. “Damage” was also an official selection at the Frameline – San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.

In addition, a cast member from the feature-length documentary “Cruel and Unusual” will be in attendance. “Cruel and Unusual,” a film by Janet Baus, Dan Hunt and Reid Williams, is an unflinching look at the lives of transgender women in men’s prisons in the United States that brings human rights and the 8th Amendment into question. 

The North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival is produced by the non-profit Carolina Theatre of Durham, Inc. and is the second largest gay and lesbian film festival in the Southeast, attracting nearly 10,000 patrons yearly. This year's festival takes place August 10 - 13, 2006.

Since its beginning in 1995, the Festival has featured a diverse array of shorts, documentaries and feature films. The Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau named the NCGLFF a Signature Event for Durham, the highest honor bestowed on a cultural event or attraction by the organization. The NCGLFF celebrates a worldwide glimpse of today's gay and lesbian life, helps to bring together the community, and features entertaining and sophisticated films and filmmaking.








The Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing quality film and live performances to the Triangle community.
Live performances at the Carolina Theatre are supported in part by the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, the A.J. Fletcher Performing Arts Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation, the CCB Foundation and the F.M. Kirby Foundation

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