A good harvest for House of Boys

The film "House of Boys" by Luxembourg director Jean-Claude Schlim won the 2011 Audience Award at the Belgium Gay and Lesbian Festival.

The film deals with a moving love story between two young men, one of whom is HIV-positive.

Jean-Claude Schlim has worked for some twenty years in the Luxembourg film industry as executive producer on prestigious co-productions, including Peter Greenaway's "8 1/2 Women", Roman Coppola's "CQ", Michael Radford's "The Merchant of Venice" and Volker Schloendorff's "The Ninth Day".

"House of Boys" is his first film as a director, for which he was awarded the "Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis"(Luxembourg Film Prize).

The film, which has been shown at a number of film festivals, including the Sydney, Amsterdam, Chicago and Paris gay and lesbian festivals, won 87.9% of the votes at the Belgium Gay and Lesbian Festival.

AWARDS

• 2009 Luxembourg Film Prize: Best Feature Film
• Brussels (B) - 25th Belgium Gay and Lesbian Festival (competition) : Audience Award
• Melbourne (AUS) - 21st Annual Queer Festival (competition) :Top 3 Audience Award
• 2011 Rio Festival Gay de Cinema :: Audience Award

FESTIVALS

• London (UK) - 25th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (official selection)
• Torino (I) - 25th Torino GLBT International Film Festival (official selection)
• Philadelphia (US) - 17th Q Fest 2011 (competition) 
• Johannesburg & Capetown (SA) 17th South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Out in Africa
• Philadelphia (US) - 17th Q Fest 2011 (competition)
• Athens (GR) - "Made in Luxembourg" days @ Greek Cinematheque in Athens
• Rio (BRASIL) - Rio Gay film festival (competition)
• Toronto (CAN) - 21st Annual Inside Out - Toronto LGBT Film Festival
• Prague & Brno (CZ) - 18th Days of European Film DEF
• Freiburg (DE) - 27. Schwule Filmwoche
• London (UK) - 25th BFI Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 
• Lodz (PL) - Cinéma Mundi Festival 
• Brisbane (AUS) - 12th Annual Queer Festival 
• Sydney (AUS) - Mardi Gras International LGBTI Film Festival
• Hamburg (DE) - 21te Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage
• Mannheim (DE) - Schwule Filmtage 2011
• Firenze (I) - 8th International Queer Film Festival
• Paris (FR) - Chéris Chéris 16th Paris Gay, Lesbian, Trans and +++ Film Festival (competition)
• Geneva (CH) - Everybody's Perfect Festival
• Münster (DE) - Queerstreifen 12. Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage
• Johannesburg & Capetown (SA) 17th South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Out in Africa
• Amsterdam (NL) - Roze Filmdagen
• Chicago (US) - 13th European Union Film Festival
• Torino (I) - 25th Torino GLBT International Film Festival
• Brussels (B) - Rainbow Week

OTHER SCREENINGS

• Bern (CH) - Uncut Filmtage
• Rotterdam (NL) - Gay Laterne
• Lille (FR) - presented by the fil rouge association
• Berlin (DE) - opening of the festival Lux = Film presented by the Luxembourg Embassy - sold out - 600 people
• Vilnius (LIT) - opening of the 2010 Baltic Pride
• Warsaw (PL) - opening of the Luxembourg Film Week prsented by the Luxembourg Embassy, follwoed by a four cities tour through Poland.

DISTRIBUTION/TERRITORIES

Luxembourg, Poland, Germany, France (+-10 copies end 2011), USA (New York) July 2011.

DVD RELEASES

DVD release - Lighthouse Home Entertainment - 24 june 2011
DVD release -Tongario Releasing on 13 May 2011
DVD in the UK - 1 August 2011 (Peccadillo Pictures Ltd)
DVD release in France and USA Etats-Unis - after release in respective countries
DVD release Belgium (Flemish part) and in the Netherlands(Paradiso Film) in 2010
DVD release in Luxmebourg date to be confirmed: