Congratulations to writer-director Marialy Rivas for last night's win at Sundance in World Cinema Screenwriting for her film Young & Wild about a very active bisexual 17 year-old girl. Her cowriter Camila Gutiérrez told the cheering crowd, "I don't speak very well English, but I want to say thanks and have a lot of sex." Read Rivas's essay about growing up lesbian in Chile.
Overlooked by the awards committees were Ira Sachs' feature Keep the Lights On and magazine editor/writer David France's documentary How To Survive a Plague, profiling the peak years of ACT UP and TAG activism.
(Photo: AP/Danny Moloshok)
FYI "How to Survive a Plague" got picked up for distribution by Sundance Selects. An award would have been nice. Many of the doc's participants showed up at the Gran Fury show last night at NYU's 80 Washington Sq. East Gallery. We seem to be in a Look Back At Anger sort of mood.
Posted by: Steve N | February 01, 2012 at 09:20 AM