Film: And The Winner Isn't...

"US director Gregg Araki on Saturday scooped the first Queer Palm ever handed out at the Cannes film festival", The Independent reported.
Except they didn't - it's a newswire story from an agency, hence the by-line AFP (Agence France-Press).
And Araki hasn't either, really.
The Queer Palm has nothing to do with the Cannes film festival.
A bloke - Franck Finance-Madureira - has just sent out a press release saying he's chosen a film to give his totally made-up and completely meaningless award to.
This happened at the Venice Film Festival in 2007, where a made-up Queer Lion award was widely reported as if it had some official sanction and status.
It didn't.
If all this shines some light on some good new queer cinema, then good. But take it for what it is - or Fagburn will try announcing the first Gay Academy Awards ® nominees later this year just to see who falls for it.
Fagburn has enjoyed several of Gregg Araki's movies - especially Mysterious Skin (pictured) - and hopes his latest film will get some free coverage out of this.
Might have helped if the item in The Independent had told us something about his new movie, but they didn't even tell us the title; Kaboom.
Oops!