Teddy bares all.Queer films on their way to U.S. theaters--including the joyful trans rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch--stop in Germany to win the Berlin Film Festivals Teddy awards Hedwig left Berlin with just an "angry inch," but the return of the transgendered rock star to her hometown in February--in her own Tommy-meets-MTV Technicolor musical joy ride--earned a 12-inch Teddy for Hedwig's cocreator and alter ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when , out actor John Cameron Mitchell John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus. Early life and career Mitchell was born in El Paso, Texas. . The top honor for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender films at the Berlin Film Festival, the Teddy award for Best Feature Film joins two top prizes already snagged by Hedwig and the Angry Inch at January's Sundance Film Festival (including Best Director of a Drama for Mitchell). "This is so much more fun than Sundance, let me tell you," said Mitchell, dressed like a boarding-school refugee and proudly grasping his statuette at the awards ceremony. "It's very important to be accepted in Berlin." Indeed, the local audience, including Berlin's mayor--a friend of Mitchell's once-Berlin-based military father--enthusiastically embraced the film's local angle. Hedwig, which Fine Line Features will release in the United States this summer, includes a comically exaggerated slice of life behind the Berlin Wall: A young East German escapes Communism via botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. sex-reassignment surgery and marriage to an American soldier before discovering her "internationally ignored" talents as a superfierce songstress song·stress n. 1. A woman who performs songs, especially ballads or popular songs. 2. A woman who writes songs. See Usage Note at -ess. . The city of Berlin is soon reunited, but Hedwig spends the next decade looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. her other half. "It's a great idea to relate the history of `divided country' to the separation of man and woman," opined local drag queen drag queen Female impersonator, gynemimetic Sexology A ♂ with ♀ affect–often 'overplayed'; a ♂ homosexual and ♀ wannabe, with ♂ genitalia; DQs may take hormones to ↑ breasts, and thus are hormonally, but not surgically and activist Gloria Viagra. "It's a fantastic patchwork of rock musical, animation art, and fairy tale, with a lot of sweet and smart ideas and details--so I think it's not that important how realistic it is." Added gay German filmmaking legend Rosa von Prauheim with a smile: "The spoken German [in the film] was bad ... but that's funny, isn't it?" Reality was more accurately represented by the winner of the Best Documentary Teddy, Sandi Simcha Simcha (שׂמְחָה) is a Hebrew word with several meanings. Literally, the word "simcha" means gladness, or joy. It comes from the root word "sameyach," which means glad or happy. DuBowski's groundbreaking Trembling Before G-d, an intimate glimpse into the world of gay and lesbian Orthodox and Hasidic Jews who hold proudly--although not without pain--to both their faith and their sexuality. "We're making this film move with meaning in the world," said the New York-based DuBowski on accepting his award, apparently referring to the intense interfaith dialogues that occur wherever the film is screened. (Trembling, currently in negotiation with a U.S. distributor, also screened at Sundance, although there it lost the audience favorite award to Scout's Honor, a documentary set to air in June on PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, that traces 20 years of challenges to the Boy Scouts of America's antigay policies.) The Jury Prize at the Teddy Awards was bestowed upon Forbidden Fruit, the first lesbian film from Zimbabwe, while a Special Mention went to Bruce Weber's Chop Suey, a complex and choppy blend of autobiography, boys, the career of lesbian entertainer Frances Faye, and more boys. Weber's sexy mix pleased audiences, as did another Special Mention favorite, the one-of-a-kind docudrama The Iron Ladies from Thailand. The inspiring yet campy Ladies recounts the inspiring true tale of a national championship-winning gay and transgendered volleyball team, and the team's star "triplets"--a colorful trio of petite queer Thai boys--were in Berlin to perform interactively at screenings. The highest-profile lesbian films in Berlin were shut out from the Teddies: Bob Gosse's Julie Johnson, which entwines Courtney Love and Lili Taylor; Lea Pool's Lost and Delirious de·lir·i·ous adj. Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium. , an emotionally intense schoolgirl lustfest; and Sande Zeig's stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. suspenser The Girl. Indeed, biological women seemed to be at a disadvantage at the festival and its concurrent film market: The combination of Hedwig's "angry inch," the sexually explicit Portuguese gay film Phantom (about a promiscuous gay sanitation worker's kinky late-night trysts), the European premiere of Richard Glatzer and Wash West's The Fluffer (set in the gay porn industry), and gay French director Patrice Chereau's graphic heteromance Intimacy prompted one visiting Sundance programmer to quip quip n. 1. A clever, witty remark often prompted by the occasion. 2. A clever, often sarcastic remark; a gibe. See Synonyms at joke. 3. A petty distinction or objection; a quibble. 4. that in Berlin, 2001 was "the year of the erect penis." If the trend continues, Teddy might need to establish another category. New York-based Ferber contributes to Time Out New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and other publications. For more on these films and on the Berlin and Sundance film festivals, go to www.advocate.com |
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