SOLOS wins @ Torino GLBT Film Festival

Just returned from Torino, Italy and I’m proud to announce that SOLOS has picked up the “Premio Nuovi Sguardi” Award at the 23rd Torino GLBT Film Festival.

It was a co-win with Panorama by Loo Hui Phang from France. The other 4 films in the same category are Piao lang chi ge (Drifting Flowers) – Zero Chou, Fora da Lei (Outlaw) – Leonor Areal, Love and Words – Sylvie Ballyot and Le Gout du néant – Pascal Robitaille. Here is information about the award:

“We have felt the necessity to assign a prize to a film – from among the selected features and documentaries – that reflects the evolution of Queer Cinema, today definitively released from the cliché of narrative and representation where it has been relegated for years. Queer Cinema uses different filmic languages to merge issues of identity with film genres and provoke our personal thought processes. It experiments as though an immense territory had opened for exploration by those having a story to tell.

Primarily this type of cinema is capable of spawning new authors. Its imagery gives us a cross section of humanity, stories about the world around us and in our imaginations. Different forms for different styles and content: social and family relationships, love, war and soul-searching are the themes of the six films chosen.”

Torino GLBT Film Festival is one of the longest running and biggest GLBT Film Festivals in Europe. Having just returned, i can proudly attest to its size…. It’s selection of films reads like an encyclopedia of GLBT films over the past year, most importantly, it supports and provides a platform for experimental films like SOLOS.

On top of its size, its hospitality is also amazing, it’s a first time that i’ve been to a festival who can afford to pay for everything, including meal cards for meals. It’s host to guest ratio is almost one to one…. and they invite over 200 guests per year.

For more information about the festival, their official website is here and their IMDB entry is here. The photos above are taken by the Festival Photographer from their official website. Will post some of my own photos soon, but still recovering from the jetlag.

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