REEL/TRAILERS
This reel below covers my films up through 2009.
Scroll down to see specific Trailers/Clips/Reviews from more recent works.
IF WE TOOK A HOLIDAY
This collaboration between Glenn Gaylord, Dennis Hensley and Nadya Ginsburg premiered at OUTFEST in July 2014
and was honored with one of its "Best of The Fest" titles right out of the gate. It has since played at over a dozen film
festivals worldwide with many, many more on the horizon. In the process, it received a BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS Award
the CMG Film Festival and was also the Audience Award Runner-Up there. The Indianpolis LGBT Film Festival honored it with the Best All-Around Film Awards from both the Jury and from the Festival Director. Glenn co-wrote the film with Hensley and
Ginsburg, directed, and co-produced. This 18 minute labor of love features a recently dumped guy who, for is birthday,
asks his Madonna Impersonator friend to "just be Madonna all day". She's also going through desperate times, and suffice
it so say, things don't go as planned...but sometimes the next best thing is even better.
I DO
"Defying the odds, "I Do" is one of the few "mainstream" gay films of recent years that gets it right. With good actors, a nice script, and lovely direction, "I Do" doesn’t have the feel of a typical gay film that usually feels thrown together with a director’s best friends and filmed in their own apartments...Director Glenn Gaylord does a beautiful job with his actors never once allowing them to steer into that over-acting screech often seen in indie-gay films." - KEVIN TAFT, EDGE ON THE NET
"I Do" is so damned right and real...The film is smartly written (by Ross) and ably directed by Glenn Gaylord (Eating Out: All You Can Eat)...one of the best I’ve seen so far." - FRANK J. AVELLA, NEW YORK COOL
“I Do” is the perfect movie" - KEVIN M. THOMAS, PROGRESSIVE PULSE
"Touching...very well-done romantic drama...so well directed by Glenn Gaylord." - GREG HERNANDEZ, GREG IN HOLLYWOOD
LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR
"Hugely entertaining, beautifully shot musical drama with catchy songs, an emotionally engaging script, colourful characters and terrific performances from its fabulous cast." - MATTHEW TURNER, VIEW BELFAST
"A backstage musical with fire in its belly...one of the best I've seen, right up there with Hedwig And The Angry Inch. In the past, it's the sort of picture that would have restored my faith in the cinematic arts—it is that unexpected, and that good." - RAY GREENE, BOX OFFICE MAGAZINE
“Audacious filmmaking…entertaining…exciting.”
— DAVID ANSEN, LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
“Vibrant…a hip-hop extravaganza …never before depicted on film.”
— PETER DE BRUGE, VARIETY
" Sheer uninhibited joy....they don’t come much more gleefully gaudy than this loud, unapologetic blast of a musical."
BEN FOWLER, THE LONDONIST
“…a sizzling mash-up of Paris Is Burning, Rent and Dreamgirls…LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR is that and more…Pulsing with energy [and] joy.”
— CINDY M. ENCH, FRAMELINE
EATING OUT: ALL YOU CAN EAT
"Glenn Gaylord's film abounds in hammy acting, farcical setups, and outrageous lines like, "Children are just abortions that eat," delivered with such over-the-top zeal that they're far funnier than they have any right to be...I may yet be a convert." - ANDREW SCHENKER, VILLAGE VOICE
"The third installment of the Eating Out series is an engaging affair that is the most accomplished, balanced offering to date...Glenn Gaylord’s first-rate direction of Bartell’s and Q. Allan Brocka’s gaily predictable, happy-ending script are largely responsible for this enjoyable outing." - S. JAMES WEGG, JWR
LEZ BE FRIENDS
"Director Glenn Gaylord loves the sitcoms of the 1960s and 70s, like, a lot. And if there’s one thing he likes more, it’s probably lesbians. [LEZ BE FRIENDS] had the audience laughing so hard at the screening I saw that folks often missed the next line." - ANGELA WATERCUTTER, WIRED
Like an inverted “Three’s Company” for those who thought “That ’70s Show” lacked a certain je ne sais gay, Lez Be Friends is a rollicking homage to the sitcoms that shaped many of us, for better or worse...outrageous." - ANDY BAILEY, FRAMELINE
"A wacky, loving homage to the great sitcoms of the ’70s" - REELING CHICAGO
"LEZ BE FRIENDS is a hilarious sitcom that plays like a twisted Three's Company, creating an outrageously funny take on gay life of the period." - SEATTLE LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL
"Move over "Will and Grace," 70s queer history serves as the basis for a delightfully skewered sitcom with gay and lesbian characters that would make Norman Lear proud." - PHILLY QFEST
CAMP MICHAEL JACKSON
"Hard-hitting...it's really very good, taking the viewer on a dizzying visit to what the SF Bay Guardian called 'the church of Michael Jackson.' Camp Michael Jackson delves [...] deeply into its subject matter and gets a lot grittier while doing it, giving it a hard edge and impact." - CHRISTIE KEITH, AFTER ELTON
"Takes a passionate if nonjudgmental view of a band of Michael fans who suspended their normal lives to hang out near the courthouse or gather by the gates of Neverland for a glimpse of the great one." - DAVID LAMBLE, BAY AREA REPORTER
K-11 SIZZLE REEL
This is a sizzle reel I produced/directed for World Of Wonder Productions in 2004 for a proposed documentary
about the gay inmates in the segregated wing of Los Angeles County Mens Central Jail, called K-11. Shooting
of the feature was postponed due to an LA Board of Supervisors ruling that no commercial filming could take
place in the jails. I hope to revive this project as soon as the ban is lifted. It's an endlessly fascinating subject. I
was granted access due to my having worked for 5 years in the jail as a Health Educator. Durng that time I
produced a training video shot in the jail.Earning the trust of the Sheriff's Department on that project
was key to gaining permission to shoot.