The Best Gay and
Lesbian Films
(The Glitter Awards 2005)

by Darwin Porter
& Danforth Prince,
Layouts by Theodora Chowfatt

ISBN # 0-9748118-3-1
7" x 10" with 208 pages and photos,
commentary, reviews,
and director's and/or producer's
interviews for the 36 films nominated
for the 2005 Glitter Awards.

(This book was a nominee for
Foreword Magazine's coveted
Book of the Year Award, 2005)

Copyright 2005.  
Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Original Price: $23.95.   
Sale Price through this internet site:  
$11.95
This is what Blood Moon released to the press on August 10, 2005:

The International Gay Film Awards is pleased to announce the release of a 208-page book that, with editorial critiques and more than
300 photos, documents the best independently produced gay and lesbian films of 2005.  

This almanac, The Best Gay & Lesbian Films: Glitter Awards 2005, documents the production details and some of the creative and
technical aspects of each of the 36 films nominated in 2004 as part of the 2005 awards ceremony.    

Envisioned as an annual and exclusively licensed “book of historical record,” it provides non-partisan commentary as well as objective
journalistic coverage of the artists, producers, directors, and technicians who made each film a reality.    The book was produced by
New York City’s Blood Moon Productions, an organization that’s otherwise devoted to transforming the oral traditions of Hollywood’s
Golden Age into bona-fide literary treatments, usually in the form of carefully researched celebrity biographies.

According to Blood Moon’s president, Danforth Prince, “The Glitter Awards Annual Yearbook will, with fine-tunings, become an
annualized staple on the world’s landscape of independent filmmaking.  We envision it as a resource book for future generations, and
a historical commemoration of each artist’s creative contribution to the filmmaking genre.”   
Films reviewed within this edition include:


  1. Adored: Diary of a Male Porn Star       
  2. Bad Education                                         
  3. Bear Cub (Cachorro)                            
  4. Bright Young Things                                       
  5. Brother to Brother                                      
  6. Bulgarian Lovers                             
  7. Callas Forever
  8. Carandiru                                               
  9. Cowboys and Angels                              
  10. Crutch                `                                      
  11. Gypsy 83
  12. Home at the End of the World        
  13. Junked
  14. Kinsey
  15. Latter Days
  16. Merci Docteur Rey
  17. My Mother Likes Women
  18. My Wife Maurice
  19. Proteus
  20. Raspberry Reich, The
  21. She Hate Me
  22. Showboy
  23. Singing Forest, The
  24. Stage Beauty
  25. Straight-Jacket
  26. Tarnation
  27. Testosterone
  28. Thousand Clouds of Peace, A
  29. Touch of Pink
  30. Transfixed
  31. Twenty-Fourth Day, The
  32. Twist
  33. Wasabi Tuna
  34. Yes Nurse! No Nurse!
  35. You I Love
  36. You'll Get Over It (A Cause d'un Farcon)
"At last, the Glitter Awards has hooked up with an publishing house (Blood Moon Productions) for documentation of the year's crop of
independently produced gay and lesbian films.  We're proud to have this filmmaking tradition celebrated so successfully.  We expect
that this first edition will become not only a collector's item, but an important source of information for future film historians."


The Glitter Awards
July, 2005
For further information about the
Glitter Awards, and for information
about the submission of films for
upcoming awards ceremonies, contact
The Glitter Awards, 1335 North La
Brea, Suite 2197, Hollywood, CA 90028
www. HollywoodIndependents.com
Note:  
Whereas we appreciated our brief
involvement with the Hollywood
Independent Filmmaking Group and its
annual award ceremony,  Blood Moon is
Awards in any way.  Its involvement with
those organizations  extended only to the
production of the film guide depicted in the
center of this webpage.  

We have since then, however, segued into
the production of a series of guidebooks
(Blood Moon's Guides to Gay & Lesbian
Film--Volumes One and Two, as depicted
below) to recent gay & lesbian film:   











For more about what's happening with
Blood Moon's coverage and review of
films, check out the appropriate pages
within this website.  
Against powerful odds, independent filmmaking with gay and
lesbian overtones is a flourishing subculture in America today.
 
Compiling this, the first of the Glitter Awards' annual
yearbooks, has been a creative and gratifying challenge.  We
hope that it reflects the collective and individual genius of the
filmmakers whose products were incorporated into its pages.  

With apologies to anyone we inadvertently left out, and with
the understanding that the format and presentation of this
annual guide can, and probably will, adapt with the evolution
of filmmaking, we thank the creative personalities who
labored over these films.

            Danforth Prince, President
            Blood Moon Productions