The Center is thrilled to announce that Open Dialogues: Queer Allies has been nominated for a 2024 Suncoast Regional EMMY® Award. This is the Center’s second Suncoast EMMY® nomination in the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion – Long-Form Content category, with Black Voices | Black Stories winning an award in 2023.
Directed by Freddy Rodriguez of 66 Films and Produced by the Center’s Jeff Rusnak, Queer Allies features deeply moving interviews and performances that focus on the coming-out stories of people who identify as LGBTQ+ (Queer) and those who love and support them.
Photographed in black-and-white, Queer Allies illustrates the often life-saving power of allyship in the stories of South Florida residents Paulino Mejia, Jr., Caro Gutierrez, Terry Dyer, Deanna Muniz, Tatiana Willams, and Lisa La Monica Braun. Named Best Doc Short at the 2023 Orlando Film Festival, Queer Allies includes a contemporary performance by Dance Now! Miami.
The Suncoast EMMY® awards ceremony will be on Dec. 7 in Orlando. The Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is comprised of television markets in Florida; five markets in Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Thomasville, Georgia; and Puerto Rico.
The film can be viewed at the Center galleries located at 1650 Harrison Street, and at South Florida PBS film-maker webpage, CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRAILER.
Open Dialogues: Queer Allies was funded by an Art of Community grant from the Community Foundation of Broward. The Center also acknowledges the support of Open Dialogues from The Our Fund Foundation, and South Florida PBS for showing Queer Allies as part of project film-maker Season 6.
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