‘Freeheld’ Nominated for an Academy Award for ‘Best Documentary Short Subject’

Filed Under Gay Awards, Gay Entertainment, Gay Film, Gossip | January 24th, 2008 

Frameline Grantee, Director, Cynthia Wade Nominated for Academy Award(R) for her Documentary ‘Freeheld’.

Laurel and Stacie from a scene in Freeheld, a Documentary by Cynthia Wade (Photographer Heidi Gutman 2006)SAN FRANCISCO, (PRNewswire) — Frameline, one of the world’s premiere organizations supporting LGBT films and filmmakers, today announced that a movie funded by the San Francisco-based nonprofit has been nominated for an Academy Award: Freeheld, whose director Cynthia Wade received $5,000 from the Frameline Completion Fund, has been nominated for “Best Documentary Short Subject.”

“We are honored that the Frameline Completion Fund could provide support for such a powerful film that is receiving one film’s highest honors,” said Jennifer Morris, Frameline Director of Programming. “Frameline would like to thank the Academy for its ongoing support of the LGBT community and our stories.”

Frameline Completion Fund winner Freeheld follows the desperate battle of Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer who fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner. On this nail-biting journey, Laurel loses her hair, her health, her badge and, ultimately, her life — but not before winning a historic court case witnessed around the world.

Source: Frameline

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- Freeheld: The Laurel Hester Story Wins an OSCAR!

- Freeheld the Documentary

- OSCAR.com – Annual Academy Awards