LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Taffeta, by Nancy Nyman, Heather McNama

Alex Donner’s life is a mess. She’s sinking in debt. Her coffeehouse job doesn’t pay enough. And her relationship with girlfriend Kate – well, let’s just say lesbian bed death is alive and well. So when Alex discovers her brother Brian – an uber-successful, self-professed ladies’ man – in the shower with Kate, she’s devastated.… Continue reading LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Taffeta, by Nancy Nyman, Heather McNama

HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: October 2020 LGBT FEEDBACK Film Festival

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: BEST FILM: PARTICULAR FRIENDSHIPS BEST PERFORMANCES: LOLA BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: UNDERNEATH BEST SOUND & MUSIC: COMPARTMENT Theme of night: Abandonment and Redemption NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: UNDERNEATH, 23min., Germany, Drama BEING BLACK, 5min., UK, Drama LOLA,… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: October 2020 LGBT FEEDBACK Film Festival

Director Biography – Nicole Vanden Broeck (ELLE)

Nicole Vanden Broeck is a French-Mexican filmmaker born and raised in Mexico. She received the FONCA-CONACYT Scholarship to pursue an MFA in Directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory. Her thesis film ELLE (2020) premiered at the Academy-Qualifying 38th Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and won the Grand Prize Marlyn Mason Award given for… Continue reading Director Biography – Nicole Vanden Broeck (ELLE)

Short Film: ELLE, 20min., USA, Drama

Set during the late 90s in Southern California, 16-year-old introverted Elle finds herself in love with her best friend who is about to move away. Project Links  Instagram News & Reviews “Rhode Island International Film Festival Announces 2020 Award Winners”VIMOOZhttps://www.vimooz.com/2020/08/15/flickers-rhode-island-internationa

Director Biography – Amanda Prager (I MAKE GOOD SOUNDS AT PARTIES)

Amanda Prager writes and directs high concept comedy science fiction that hopes to make others feel less alone in their one-by-one box of bones. She writes funny, real characters in unreal situations. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Her films and screenplays have… Continue reading Director Biography – Amanda Prager (I MAKE GOOD SOUNDS AT PARTIES)