Scion Presents the 6th Annual PlanetOut Short Movie Awards in Association with the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Audience Will Be Able to View Winners of Biggest Online Gay and Lesbian Film Event at www.planetout.com and www.gay.com

Deadline for Entries: December 17, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 -- PlanetOut Inc., a global online media company serving the gay and lesbian market, today announced a call for entries for the 6th annual PlanetOut Short Movie Awards, presented by Scion and hosted by the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The PlanetOut Short Movie Awards (www.movieawards.planetout.com and www.movieawards.gay.com), the largest online awards honoring film and video shorts by, about and of interest to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) audiences, has been an international platform for top gay and lesbian filmmakers.

"The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) has always been a great venue for the Short Movie Awards," said PlanetOut Inc. Senior Director of Programming and Editor-in-Chief Beth Callaghan. "Being one of the major gay and lesbian film festivals in the United States, it is the perfect place, along with PlanetOut.com and Gay.com, for participating filmmakers to get exposure. We are also extremely grateful for Scion's support this year."

"We are thrilled to work once again with PlanetOut and are delighted that Scion has come on board to foster, nurture and support GLBT filmmakers," said MGLFF Program Director Carol Coombes. "The Short Movie Awards is a great way to bring innovative shorts to a national audience."

PlanetOut.com and Gay.com members who vote for the audience awards in February will automatically be entered in a sweepstakes to win a Scion car. Members will also have an opportunity to screen the winners online in March.

"Scion is proud to sponsor this important opportunity for GLBT filmmakers," said Scion National Sales Promotion Manager Brian Bolain. "Presenting the PlanetOut Short Movie Awards is an exciting way for Scion to further extend its support of the creative arts."

One Grand Prize winner and five First Prize winners in the categories of drama, comedy, documentary, experimental, and animation will be selected by the PlanetOut.com Short Movie Awards jury among 25 finalists. The grand prize winner will receive $10,000 and the category winners will each receive prizes of $1,000. The prizewinning films will be screened at a special program and awards presentation on April 24 at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which runs April 22 - May 1, 2005.

Members of this year's jury are: Carol Coombes, program director of MGLFF; Kelly M. DeVine, Film Acquisitions supervisor for Independent Film Channel; Jonathan Farrentelli, head of development and production for Ross Katz Productions; Shannon Kelley, director of programming for Morelia International Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico and senior programming consultant to the Sundance Film Festival; Marc Leonard, vice president of program and promotions scheduling of Comedy Central; Mark Reinhart, executive vice president of here! Films; Jenny Stewart, entertainment editor for PlanetOut Inc.

A total of 450 entries have been submitted to the contest in the past five years including 58 entries for last year's PlanetOut Movie Awards. Entries have included Emmy(R) award-winning filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson, Oscar(R) winner Kathy Bates, and acclaimed British actress Susannah York. Select entries have been featured in the Picture This! Entertainment DVD release "The First Annual PlanetOut Short Movie Awards Highlights" and on the Sundance Channel. Last year's grand prize winner was Colette Burson's same-sex Cinderella love story "Little Black Boot."

The final date to submit entries to the PlanetOut Short Movie Awards is December 17, 2004, for a $25 entry fee. Films and videos are automatically eligible for the PlanetOut Short Movie Awards when submitted to the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, as long as they are no longer than 20 minutes in length and, due to current online exhibition formats, are in English or contain no significant dialogue. An official submission form and detailed guidelines are available on the Web at http://www.mglff.com/ or by contacting the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival at 1521 Alton Road, #147, Miami Beach, FL 33139, by phone at (305) 534-9924, by fax at (305) 535-2377, or by e-mail at ccoombes@miamigaylesbianfilm.com. Additional rules and regulations are available at http://movieawards.planetout.com/ .

About PlanetOut Inc.

PlanetOut Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, is a global online media company offering consumer services, news and entertainment to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. The company believes its flagship websites, Gay.com and PlanetOut.com, constitute the most extensive network of gay and lesbian people in the world.

About Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Entering into its 7th season, the Festival presents films and videos of all genres, lengths and formats, including dramatic, documentary and experimental works, by, about and of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community. With a strong international showing, it places special emphasis on works by U.S. Hispanic, Latin American and Spanish filmmakers. The upcoming Seventh Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, hosted in the heart of fashionable South Beach, will continue its line-up of World, U.S. and South Florida premieres, with a diverse group of 36-plus programs over ten days. Directors attending the Festival will be joined by actors, distributors, critics and other special guests from around the world for a full schedule of screenings and panels, as well as social events at an array of Miami's hottest hotels, cafes, clubs and lounges. The 7th Annual MGLFF program will be announced online at www.mglff.com on March 28th, 2005.

About Scion

Scion is the newest line of vehicles from Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. Developed with a new generation of buyers in mind, Scion's mission is to provide distinctive products, the opportunity to personalize, and an innovative, consumer-driven process at the retail level. The Scion brand features three ground breaking models. The xA is a taut subcompact five- door, featuring an athletic stance with sculpted wheel arches. The xB, an urban utility vehicle with an iconic shape, combines remarkable interior space with aggressive style. And the new tC sports coupe surprises the buyer with the convenience of a hatchback and the luxury of a standard all-glass panorama moonroof, complementing the usual wide array of standard features found on all Scions. For more information, visit www.scion.com.

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