The 2003 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

BEST FEATURE FILM Road to Love (Tarik El Hob), Director: Remi Lange Honorable Mention - My Life on Ice (Ma Vrai Vie a Rouen), Directors: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau Honorable Mention - Flying With One Wing, Director: Asoka Handagama	Sponsored by

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM Flag Wars, Directors: Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras	Sponsored by

BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR AWARD Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary, Tracy Flannigan, Director Honorable Mention - Flag Wars, Directors: Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras	Sponsored by

BEST NEW DIRECTOR Do I Love You?, Lisa Gornick, Director	Sponsored by

BEST SHORT FILM Rock Bottom, Director: Mary Feuer Honorable Mention - Afterschool Delight, Director: Eve Bregman	Sponsored by

BEST LOCAL SHORT FILM Signed, Stamped, Dated: The Story of the Typing Explosion, Director: Gina Mainwal Honorable Mention - Mine, Director: Carrie Schrader	Sponsored by

Favorite Documentary Feature:
No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, Director:Joan E. Biren

Favorite Local Short:
Signed, Stamped, Dated: The Story of the Typing Explosion, Director: Gina Mainwal

We are honored to have the following individuals on the Short Film Jury,
who selected the award winners for work under 40 minutes:

Laura Jean Cronin holds a BFA, MA, and PhD ABD. Her audience favorite, BLOCK PARTY, and LEAVE IT! have both screened world-wide, with honors in Seattle and Berlin. Her award-winning screenplay, PRINCESS AND BUDDHA, is currently under consideration by The Vine Entertainment.

C. R. Douglas hosts “City Inside/Out," a weekly news/interview program on The Seattle Channel (cable 21). Previously he hosted "Northwest Week” on KBTC-TV (PBS), and has appeared as a local political analyst on KCPQ-TV (Fox) and NWCN (Northwest Cable News).

Caroline Chung Simpson is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where her research and teaching interests include Asian-American cultural history, Cold War culture, and postmodernist writing. She is author of An Absent Presence: Japanese-Americans and the Making of Cold War Culture, 1945-1961.

Our esteemed Feature Film Jury selected the winners of the
Three Dollar Bill Cinema Awards for Excellence in four categories:

Chandan Reddy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington who teaches and conducts research in Queer Studies, American Studies and Critical Race Theory. He has published articles on Paris Is Burning and South Asian queer immigrant cultural politics.

Norma Jean Straw is currently producing EVERGREEN, a narrative feature supported by the Sundance Institute and starring Mary Kay Place. She volunteers with the Reel Grrls Film Education Program, and is vice president of Vain Corporation..

Gregory Zerwekh, long-time SIFF volunteer, sits on Cinema Seattle’s Board of Directors and supports development of regional arts organizations through ArtsFund. On most Fridays, you'll find Greg at Lambert House, providing HIV testing and counseling services to queer and questioning youth.

In addition to the juried awards, the four Audience Choice awards were Favorite Narrative Feature, Favorite Short, Favorite Documentary Feature, and Favorite Local Film. Each award winner received a copy of Movie Magic screenwriter software from Write Brothers, Inc.