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City / Film Humpday Wins Independent Spirit Award!
Posted by David Schmader on Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:05 AM
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Congratulations to Lynn Shelton and the cast of Humpday, which won the John Cassavetes Award—given to the best feature film made for under $500,000—at last night's Independent Spirit Awards.
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The writer of the blog you linked to, Steve Montgomery, deserves some sort of award for the Variety-style three-word plot synopsis his headline gave Humpday: "Gay Sex Challenge".
That aside, what a makeover for Lynn! The upsweep brings her lovely face front and center. My mom aimed at this style once in the 80s and missed by a mile, but Shelton hit it out of the park. Here's a closer shot of her backstage with the award:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38025217@N0…
That aside, what a makeover for Lynn! The upsweep brings her lovely face front and center. My mom aimed at this style once in the 80s and missed by a mile, but Shelton hit it out of the park. Here's a closer shot of her backstage with the award:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38025217@N0…
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What a great film. I'm glad locals-made-good. But it was so watchable I had to spend more time out of my life watching it a second time!
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I finally got to watch Humpday a few days ago (with an assist from netflix instant), and then went and showed it to my roommate a few hours later, and I gotta say, I thought it was great. Particularly noteworthy to me was how genuine and rounded the character of Anna was. I'm always complaining to friends (I'm not a total downer to be around, I swear) about how I can rarely watch a movie without cringing and rolling my eyes at the crap depiction of women (ESPECIALLY a movie more or less about guys). I hesitate to even point to the gender of the filmmaker as a cause, because I thought she really got to the heart of the male characters as well and made some excellent points along the way. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Lynn Shelton is incredibly talented and insightful, and it's great to see a movie that poses the questions Humpday does being so well-received.
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Anyone know why they moved the awards ceremony from its traditional Saturday afternoon before the Oscars to the Friday night before?
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about 6: just read a press release that it was moved into primetime because it was a 25th anniversary show - a big deal requires primetime.
7: Special permission? I watched it (but almost missed it) on IFC but there was no "special permission" needed.
7: Special permission? I watched it (but almost missed it) on IFC but there was no "special permission" needed.
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