Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:51:50 +0100
From: glaad@glaad.org (GLAAD)
Subject: GLAAD Congratulates Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers and the Sundance Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tamra King
Entertainment Media Director
(213) 658-6775

GLAAD Congratulates Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
and the Sundance Film Festival

January 25, 1996, Los Angeles, CA -- The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD) congratulates the gay and lesbian filmmakers whose work
debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival is
internationally recognized as the most important showcase of American
independent cinema, and has become a celebrated cultural event.

"For the independent filmmaker, Sundance is the pinnacle" said Tamra King,
Entertainment Media Director for GLAAD. "Sundance has always embraced
diversity and included films that deal with gay and lesbian issues in their
program selections" added King.

The twelve full-length feature films dealing with gay and lesbian issues
screened were: Believe Me; Bound; Celestial Clockwork; The Celluloid
Closet; Different for Girls; Everything Relative; Frisk; Hustler White;
It's My Party; Late Bloomers; Stonewall; Tender Fictions; and numerous
short films. The gay and lesbian film subjects ranged from Santa Monica
Boulevard hustlers, in Bruce La Bruce's drama "Hustler White," to the
twilight love affair of two middle-aged women in a conservative small town
in "Late Bloomers."

"GLAAD's mission is to promote fair, accurate and balanced images of gays
and lesbians, and Sundance should be congratulated on their inclusive
spectrum of our lives" noted King.

For more information on the Sundance Film Festival contact:
Festival Headquarters (801) 645-7509 or (801) 328-3456

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Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
glaad@glaad.org
http://www.glaad.org

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, GLAAD, is a national
organization that promotes fair, accurate and inclusive representation of
individuals and events in the media as a means of combatting homophobia and
all forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation or identity.
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