Topp Twins

On the 5 June 2010 the Topp Twins and Arani Cuthbert attended the GLAAD Awards as The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls was a finalist for Outstanding Documentary. The film did not go onto win (the Award was won by the documentary Ask Not) but the Topp Twins got to meet and pose with Jai Rodriguez of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame!

Lynda & Jools Topp at the GLAAD Awards | Credit: Diva Films

Lynda & Jools talk with Jai Rodriguez | Credit: Diva Films

Lynda, Jools and Jai Rodriguez at the GLAAD Awards | Credit: Diva Films

We blogged about screening in Seattle a few weeks ago but the film has just been awarded the Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision.

Fledgling filmmaker, co-founder of Seattle’s original Festival of Films by Women Directors, and former KCTS staffer Lena Sharpe was working on a film in Washington State when her plane crashed, tragically killing everyone aboard. In tribute to her efforts in bringing the work of women filmmakers to prominence locally, this special award is given to the film by a woman director that receives very high votes from the public in the balloting for the Golden Space Needle Audience Awards.

The film was also the First Runner Up for the Best Documentary Golden Space Needle Award.

The film will screen one more time at the SIFF Best of Fest Weekend:
19 June 2010 | 11.00am | SIFF Cinema

Thank you SIFF!

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls has won the jury prize for Best Documentary at the Newfest Film Festival in New York. Woohoo!

Fellow New York based Kiwi Gemma Gracewood has written a wonderful account of the Newfest screening on her blog.

“I just bloody love the Topp Twins. I love their honesty, their swift quips and their, well, what’s the opposite of subersive humour? Because their dirtiest secret is that they’re not subversive. They are, and always have been, front and centre in their beliefs, causes and intention.” (Gemma Gracewood, Too Much Personality)

For those of you in New York or with friends in New York the film is screening at the Newfest Film Festival with The Topp Twins and Arani Cuthbert in attendance!

10 June 2010 | 7.30pm | SVA Theater 1 | The Topp Twins and Arani Cuthbert in attendance

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls review in Time Out

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls has been awarded the Best Documentary Award at the Mendocino Film Festival.

Arani and the twins attended the festival and according to the Mendocino Film Festival on Twitter, “The Topp Twins were treated like the ROCKSTARS they are at the Mendocino Cafe last night! This town is so great…”

Lynda & Jools performing in Mendocino | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools perform in Mendocino | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools at the Mendocino Film Festival | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools with Ronnie Gilbert and fans of the Mendocino FIlm Festival | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools with Ronnie Gilbert | Credit: John Birchard

The 20th annual Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival wrapped up on Sunday night and honoured the best of the fest. The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls received the Elle Flanders Award for Best Documentary Film. Thank you Toronto! Again!

Watch Elvira Kurt interview the twins and Leanne Pooley in Toronto when they attended the Toronto International Film Festival last year:

Read reviews from the festival:
Inside Out 2010: Topp Twins, Movie Moxie
Review: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Toronto Film Scene, Pam Fossen
New Zealand’s singing, yodelling lesbian twins star in hit doc, The Star, Linda Barnard
Topp Twins, NOW Magazine, Glenn Sumi

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls screened in Seattle on the 30 & 31 May with the twins and the film’s producer Arani Cuthbert in attendance. See the pics below for proof!

Jools, Arani & Lynda at SIFF | Photo credit: SIFF

Arani Cuthbert, the film’s producer, says, “The screening on Sunday night went down very well… about 600 people in a lovely old theatre, very much like a KIWI audience. This part of the US is so like NZ. Lovely to hear people laughing at all the right places, lots of wonderful comments afterwards.”

Watch the interview with Lynda & Jools on the SIFF website

SIFF Banner | Photo credit: Diva Films

Lynda & Jools Topp perform at Q&A | Photo credit: SIFF

Jools Topp performing at Q&A | Photo credit: SIFF

SIFF audience | Photo credit: Diva Films

Lining up for merchandise | Photo credit: Diva Films

Lynda & Jools Topp signing merchandise | Photo credit: SIFF

Lynda & Jools Topp | Photo credit: SIFF

View more pics on the SIFF Flickr stream.

UPDATE: Listen to the audio from an interview with Movie Critic Tom Tangney

Read the reviews from SIFF:
May 30 at SIFF, The Seattle Times, Michael Upchurch
SIFF “Face the Music” preview: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, KEXP.org, Leigh Bezezekoff
SIFF report #2, Playback stl, Sarah Boslaugh
SIFF Review: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, film.com, Christine Champ
SIFF Sighting: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Cinebanter
SIFF Spotlight: The untouchable Topp Twins, Art by Zee
SIFF Take: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Three Imaginary Girls
SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans, Seattle Weekly, Gavin Borchert
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, The Stranger, Dominc Holden
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Seattle Gay News
What to see this week at the Seattle Film Festival, HeraldNet, Robert Horton
Your Daily SIFF: Oops! Here’s the info on Topp Twins and Joan Rivers, Seattle Gay Scene, Michael Strangeways