One of the biggest and longest running LGBTQ+ film festivals in the country, TIGLFF offers a selection of compelling cinema by, for or about LGBTQ+ communities that entertains, empowers, and enlightens the Festival audience.
To help alleviate the financial concerns of artists and filmmakers during this difficult time, TIGLFF is offering free entry for films submitted by the early deadline and lower entry fees for the ensuing deadlines.
Last year's program featured the U.S. Premiere of PORT AUTHORITY for Opening Night and the Golden Globe-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted French film TWO OF US for Closing Night. Our Centerpiece film was Thom Fitzgerald's film STAGE MOTHER along with a virtual Q&A with Jackie Beat.
For the festival in October, we hope to host a hybrid festival with some select screenings in physical venues along with virtual screenings online.
We are also looking for BIPOC-oriented LGBTQ films for our Queer In Color festival in June and transgender-oriented films for our Tampa Trans Film Festival in November.
TIGLFF was the most recent winner of the 2020 Creative Loafing Reader's poll Best of the Bay Film Festival
TIGLFF was also named as a "Top 25" public event by the Tampa Bay Business Journal
The Friends of the Festival Fund was established in 2009 through the estate of Alan Ira Dusowitz. This endowment trust helps fund film programming content for TIGLFF. In honor of Alan, TIGLFF will give annual cash awards for Best Emerging Film-maker in the categories of Full Length Feature Film and Short Film.
In addition, we give nominal Audience and Jury Awards in the categories of Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature and Short Film.
