2004 POWER UP FILM GRANT RECIPIENT

STARCROSSED

2005 Planet Out Film Festival
DRAMA PRIZE WINNER

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Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival 2005
Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2005
Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
FilmOut San Diego Film Festival 2005
Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2005
Image + Nation – Montreal Gay & Lesbian Film festival 2005
Image Out – Rochester Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Inside Out - Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival 2005
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2005
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Mostra Lambda – Barcelona, Spain 2005
Newfest 2005
North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Outfest 2005
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2005
Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Planet Out Film Festival 2005
Pink Apple Zurich Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Q Cinema – Forth Worth Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Reel Affirmations – Washington DC GLBT Film Festival 2005
Reel Identities – New Orleans Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Reel Queer Syracuse 2005
Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Tampa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Worldwide Short Film Festival – Canadian Film Centre 200
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JAMES BURKHAMMER writer/director

James Burkhammer grew up in Cleveland Ohio and moved to Los Angeles in 2002. Growing up he was influenced by filmmakers Wes Craven, Luc Besson, Tim Burton, Dario Argento and Gregg Araki. Hopeful future projects in the works are a horror movie entitled “Night Shivers” and a feature length version of “Starcrossed


Starcrossed is an atmospheric story of Darren & Connor who's relationship develops into something more then society could ever handle. Unable to deny there feelings for each other the two brothers try to hide there relationship from an unkind world but fail. The boys decide that a world that can't understand them is a world
that's not for them.