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San Francisco-- Heart and brain were fully formed, but for lungs and legs, the workshop ran short of raw material. A tragedy when that happens in a pregnancy-- or in the Darwinian jungle of gay independent filmmaking. Fortunately, the Horizons/Frameline Completion Fund is there to help. "The fund was established over ten years ago to assist LGBT media artists with the final stages of production," says Frameline's Corey Eubanks. To date more than 50 films and videos have gotten a helping, obstretical hand to extract them from the womb. This year Frameline (the sponsor of the annual SF International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival) awarded $15,000 to only five projects-- among them Hrein Og Being (translation: Take Me As I Am), by directors Horvaldur Kristinnson and Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, in which nine Icelandic young people talk of their emergence from the closet ("A truly provincial testimony," declares Frameline with well-honed West Coast haught). Another recipient was Brother to Brother, in which director Rodney Evans offers a "feature-length drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly gay black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York City homeless shelter." Look for these flicks soon at a gay film festival near you. For more info on Frameline's projects, browse to www.frameline.org or call 415-703-8650.