Larry Grimaldi and Kirk Marcolina's Camp Out has won the 18th Newfest Vanguard Awardcelebrating breakthrough or visionary achievement.

The New York-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festivalalso awarded the picture best documentary honours, while the best US narrativeprize went to Ned Farr's The Gymnast.

Best foreign narrative feature went to Ahmed Imamovic's Go Westfrom Bosnia, and bestshort was awarded to Jenifer Malmquist's Peace Talk from Sweden.

In the Audience Awards Janet Baus, Dan Hunt and Reid Williams' CruelAnd Unusual took bestfeature, and David Dean Bottrell's Available Men won best short.

The Vito Russo Award, awarded each year to a New York-based filmin progress, went to Dirty Girl by Abe Sylvia.

For more information visit the official website at www.NewFest.org.