List of Reel Affirmations award winners

This is a list of films that have won awards at the Reel Affirmations film festival, an American festival of LGBT-related films held annually in Washington, D.C.

This list is organized by the year in which the award was given. Reel Affirmations film festivals are referred to by the order in which they occurred. For example, the sixth Reel Affirmations film fest is called "RA 6" in film festival shorthand, and occurred in 1996.

For many years, Reel Affirmations presented four major awards each year: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Male Short, and Best Female Short. Each award is bestowed based on audience balloting. The festival also

Beginning in 2000, the festival also distributed a Plant-A-Seed grant at the end of each festival. The grant was awarded by the One In Ten board to a filmmaker or filmmakers who have previously produced a feature film, short or documentary, and was intended to help the filmmaker complete a current work in progress. The grant was established in 2000. It was supported by audience donations and a silent auction held throughout each year's festival, and varied in amount from year to year. The grant award was discontinued in 2008.

Beginning in 2011, Reel Affirmations added three new awards. These included a First Time Director and a Best International Movie award. The festival also re-established its film completion grant award, renaming it the Keith Clark & Barry Becker Filmmaker Award (in honor of the co-founders of the festival).^[1]

Reel Affirmations award winners

1991 (RA 1)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1992 (RA 2)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1993 (RA 3)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1994 (RA 4)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1995 (RA 5)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1996 (RA 6)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1997 (RA 7)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1998 (RA 8)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

1999 (RA 9)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known

2000 (RA 10)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known
Plant-A-Seed grant: Patrik-Ian Polk^[2]^{[citation needed]}

2001 (RA 11)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known
Plant-A-Seed grant: Paula Goldberg^[2]^{[citation needed]}

2002 (RA 12)

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Best Feature: Friends & Family^{[citation needed]}
Best Documentary: Swimming Upstream: A Year in the Life of Karen & Jenny^{[citation needed]}
Best Male Short: Boychick^{[citation needed]}
Best Female Short: Wilma's Sacrifice^{[citation needed]}
Plant-A-Seed grant: Todd Stephens^[2]^{[citation needed]}

2003 (RA 13)

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Best Feature: Latter Days^{[citation needed]}
Best Documentary: No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon^{[citation needed]}
Best Male Short: A Bear's Story^{[citation needed]}
Best Female Short: The Ten Rules (A Lesbian Survival Guide)^{[citation needed]}
Plant-A-Seed grant: Erin Greenwell^[2]^{[citation needed]}

2004 (RA 14)

Best Feature: Not known
Best Documentary: Not known
Best Male Short: Not known
Best Female Short: Not known
Plant-A-Seed grant: Not known

2005 (RA 15)

Best Feature: little man^{[citation needed]}
Best Documentary: Just Between Us
Best Male Short: Ryan's Life^{[citation needed]}
Best Female Short: Getting to Know You^{[citation needed]}
Plant-A-Seed grant: Sarah Kellogg

2006 (RA 16)

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Best Feature: C.R.A.Z.Y.^{[citation needed]}
Best Documentary: The Life of Reilly^{[citation needed]}
Best Male Short: Implication (Implicación)^{[citation needed]}
Best Female Short: Hi Maya (Hoi Maya)^{[citation needed]}
Plant-A-Seed grant: Carlos Portugal^[6]

2007 (RA 17)

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Best Feature: The King and the Clown^{[citation needed]}
Best Documentary: For the Bible Tells Me So^{[citation needed]}
Best Male Short: Peking Turkey^{[citation needed]}
Best Female Short: Happenstance^{[citation needed]}
Plant-A-Seed grant: Stu Maddux^{[citation needed]} and Joe Applebaum^{[citation needed]}

2008 (RA 18)

Best Feature: Save Me^{[citation needed]}
Best Documentary: In Sickness and In Health^{[citation needed]}
Best Male Short: 41 Sekunden (41 Seconds)^{[citation needed]}
Best Female Short: Worst Case Scenario: Butch Edition
Plant-A-Seed grant: This grant was discontinued in 2008

2009 (RA 19)

Best Feature: No awards given
Best Documentary: No awards given
Best Male Short: No awards given
Best Female Short: No awards given

2010

Due to financial difficulties, the Reel Affirmations film festival was not held in 2010.

2011 (RA 20)

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Best Feature: Pariah^{[citation needed]}
Best Documentary: Vito^{[citation needed]}
Best Male Short: I Don't Want to Go Back Alone^{[citation needed]}
Best Female Short: Cried Suicide^{[citation needed]}
Best International Movie: Mary Lou^{[citation needed]}
Best First-Time Director: Sal Bardo, for Requited^{[citation needed]}
Keith Clark & Barry Becker Filmmaker Award: Michele Josue and Liam McNill, to assist with the completion of the documentary Matthew Shepard Is A Friend of Mine

Notes

^ ^a ^b Shulman, Randy. "Reel Affirmations 20: And the Winning Films Are -- ." Metro Weekly. October 24, 2011. Archived May 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2012-03-31.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Plant A Seed: A Community Reaches Out to Filmmakers." Reel Affirmations 13 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.
^ Reel Affirmations 12 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.
^ Reel Affirmations 13 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.
^ Reel Affirmations 16 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.
^ Reel Affirmations 17 Program Guide, 2007, p. 78.
^ Reel Affirmations 17 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.

[RATwenty-1] Shulman, Randy. "Reel Affirmations 20: And the Winning Films Are -- ." Metro Weekly. October 24, 2011. Archived May 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2012-03-31.

[RA04-2] "Plant A Seed: A Community Reaches Out to Filmmakers." Reel Affirmations 13 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.

[3] Reel Affirmations 12 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.

[4] Reel Affirmations 13 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.

[5] Reel Affirmations 16 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.

[6] Reel Affirmations 17 Program Guide, 2007, p. 78.

[7] Reel Affirmations 17 Web site, no date. Accessed January 2, 2008.

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