Frameline (http://www.frameline.org/), one of the world's premiere organizations supporting LGBT films and filmmakers, today announced that a movie funded by the San Francisco-based nonprofit has been nominated for an Academy Award: Freeheld, whose director Cynthia Wade received $5,000 from the Frameline Completion Fund, has been nominated for "Best Documentary Short Subject."


"We are honored that the Frameline Completion Fund could provide support for such a powerful film that is receiving one film's highest honors," said Jennifer Morris, Frameline Director of Programming. "Frameline would like to thank the Academy for its ongoing support of the LGBT community and our stories."


Frameline Completion Fund winner Freeheld follows the desperate battle of Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer who fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner. On this nail-biting journey, Laurel loses her hair, her health, her badge and, ultimately, her life -- but not before winning a historic court case witnessed around the world.