Roxane Mesquida Online » Awards http://www.roxanemesquida.net Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:21:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Kaboom” Wins Queer Palm & Finds Distribution http://www.roxanemesquida.net/kaboom-wins-queer-palm-finds-distribution/ http://www.roxanemesquida.net/kaboom-wins-queer-palm-finds-distribution/#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 17:01:10 +0000 Lindsey http://www.roxanemesquida.net/?p=151 Two bits of good news regarding “Kaboom” as Cannes reaches its close: it’s found international distribution with IFC, and it won the Cannes Film Festival’s very first Queer Palm, a new LBGT-themed award. Congratulations to Gregg Araki and the rest of the cast and crew (including Roxane, of course!)

UPDATE: “Kaboom” Claims First Queer Palm

Gregg Araki’s “Kaboom” was announced today as the winner of the inaugural Queer Palm, awarded to an LGBT film at the Cannes Film Festival, at a ceremony held at Zanzibar, the oldest gay bar in Europe and popular with gay fest goers. Sponsored by Gallic filmmakers Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (“Cote d’Azur,” “The Adventures of Felix”), the Queer Palm joins Berlin’s Teddy and Venice’s Queer Lion, similar LGBT-themed awards at other major world festivals.

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