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"Ugly Ducklings" wins GAL award
Sunday, March 5, 2006
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from the Morning Sentinel
WATERVILLE -- Two local film producers, the owners of a Portland cinema, and an Augusta couple who supports the Maine International Film Festival were among those receiving awards Saturday night at the second Annual Maine Film Academy Awards Gala.
The gala to benefit the Film Festival was held at the Colby College Museum of Art Schupf Wing. The formal event was billed as Maine's version of the Academy Awards to be held tonight in Hollywood.
Lauren Sterling and Lyn Mikel Brown of Waterville received the GAL Award -- the Groundbreaking Activist Leader Award -- for producing a documentary about the play "Ugly Ducklings," which addresses issues of homophobia and teen suicide and was performed last year at Colby. The film documents the cast and crew's work on the play.
Brown, a Colby professor and co-founder of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and Sterling, of Greater Waterville's Communities for Children & Youth Coalition, also helped to produce the play, written by Carolyn Gage. The documentary film was directed by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Fawn Yacker and will be nationally distributed to film festivals.
"The Groundbreaking Activist Leader Award is designed to honor a remarkable woman or group of women who have used the power of film to effect social change," Film Festival Director Shannon L. Haines said last week.
To order the Ugly Ducklings Community Action Kit with interactive theatre and the documentary, e-mail info@uglyducklings.org.
This story is available online at: http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/2499645.shtml
Click here to find out more: www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org
By: Blethen Maine Newspapers, Inc.
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