The Derek Oyston CHE Film Award
CHE, in association with the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, has now presented the Derek Oyston CHE Film Award for two years running. The award is for the film screened in the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival which most reflects the aims and objectives of CHE.
In 2010 the winning film was The Kuchus of Uganda
Following
the showing of the film on 21st March 2010, the
certificate, and a cheque for £2,000 was presented by Griffith Vaughan
Williams, Secretary of CHE, to Nazmila Jamal, a programmer for the Film
Festival, to be passed on to the film's director, Mathilda Piehl.
Particularly inspiring in light of changes in the law that happened after this film was made, this is a documentary about SMUG (Sexual Minorities Uganda), a group of radical LGBT activists who risk their lives in order to push for queer rights.
See also our press release.
The 2009 winner was Darling!: the Pieter-Dirk Uys Story
The award of £2,000 was presented to the film's director, Julian Shaw, at at the main screening of the film in the LLGFF by CHE's Vice-President, the Broadcaster, Television Reporter and Gay Rights Campaigner Ray Gosling.
The other nominated films were:
A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square Dir Carolyn Coal
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Project Dir Charles B Brack
Fig Trees Dir John Greyson and David Wall
In This Our Lives: The Reunion Dir Topher Campbell
One Summer in New Paltz, a Cautionary Tale Dir Nancy Nicol
Out Late Dir Beatrice Alda and Jennifer Brooke
Sex Positive Dir Daryl Wein
Travel Queeries Dir Elliat Graney-Saucke
The Jury
The CHE Film Award jury members in this inaugural year are:
- Griff Vaughan Williams, Media Officer of CHE
- Emma Smart, LLGFF Programmer
- Nettie Pollard, a founding member of Feminists Against Censorship and CHE Executive Committee member.
