Award-winning film Walking on Sunshine" hits Los Angeles International Short Film Festival September 7, 2005.

Los Angeles, CA Tracy Taylor is a director, writer and producer who is humble in her award winning status as she continues to rise from the debut of her short film Walking on Sunshine", which will be featured at the 9th Annual Los Angeles International Short Film Festival Sept 6-13, 2005.

Los Angeles, CA -- Walking on Sunshine" is under program number 13 of the festival titled Changes in Latitude" and will be shown in theatre nine on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at 8 p.m. at ArcLight Cinemas, located at 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. Tickets are $10 and can be purchase through ArcLight, Hollywood by calling (323) 464-4226 or accessing www.lashortfest.com.        

Walking on Sunshine" was chosen as a winner in the Rap-It-Up/Black AIDS Short Subject Film Competition (RIU/BASS) after a national call for submissions from Black Entertainment Television (BET), the Black AIDS Institute (The Institute), and the Kaiser Family Foundation. In addition, Walking on Sunshine" was nominated for a 2005 Annual NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Television, Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. Other Walking on Sunshine" accolades include winning the 2005 7th Annual San Francisco Black Film Festival and, recently winning the 2005 Cable Positive Award for Outstanding Original Movie.

In a recent interview in Americas AIDS Magazine (www.aumag.org) Taylor says, The film starts off with all of this fear", as she describes the relationship of how two sisters, Jenna and Sunshine, characters played by Taylor and Jossie Harris Thacker are putting themselves at risk while [AIDS awareness] is not out there in the world the way it was when they were children." Walking on Sunshine" is a powerful story that drives home the point that despite the sexual revolution" of today, black women are part of one of the largest identified groups contracting HIV/AIDS in the United States.        

Tracy Taylor is a Chicago native and first-time filmmaker. She began her career as a writer and stage performer. In 2005, Taylor began touring, screening Walking on Sunshine" in schools, conferences and festivals. She is a graduate of Southern Illinois University with a bachelors degree in journalism. Taylor currently resides in Los Angeles where she is currently working to get her first feature film produced.

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