2010 Best Documentary - ImageOut Audience Award

Wow! This category was a nail biter. From my conversations with the audiences during the Festival, two documentary titles were being mentioned the most: Making the Boys and Holding Hands. So imagine my surprise when out of nowhere, Lost in the Crowd came within a hundredth of a point of winning the coveted title of Best Independent Documentary Feature at ImageOut 18. That screening went well and the Q&A with filmmaker Susi Graf was enlightening and inspiring. But in the end, Making the Boys captured the audience's hearts. Congratulations to filmmaker Crayton Robey for winning $750 worth of Kodak film stock and a special Certificate of Recognition from ImageOut. It took me 1.5 years to finally bring this movie to Rochester, but it was worth the wait. Here's how you voted for the documentary films.

(1) 4.83 Making the Boys (Documentary Centerpiece)
(2) 4.82 Lost in the Crowd
(3) 4.78 Holding Hands
(4) 4.70 Two Spirits: Sexuality, Gender and the Murder of Fred Martinez
(5) 4.68 Word Is Out (Archive Night)
(6) 4.60 Out of Annapolis
(7) 4.51 Sex in an Epidemic
(8) 4.24 Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance
(9) 4.18 The Adonis Factor

As you can see, all of the films rated beyond "Good." It was a great year for documentary films at ImageOut 18.

Program 32: Making The Boys

While the play itself is both fascinating and entertaining alone, Making the Boys, the story of just how Mart Crowley's Boys in the Band came into existence and into the permanent cultural consciousness of an entire generation (at least) is even more fascinating. Join us for this very special Documentary Centerpiece.

The New York State Premiere of Making the Boys begins at 6:30 at the Cinema Theater.