Filmmaker/Author/Actor/Playwright/Publisher Stanley Bennett Clay will receive The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 5th Annual International Black LGBT Film Festival in Oakland, California. The award presentation will follow the 3 p.m. screening of his ground-breaking film "Ritual," winner of the Pan African Film Festival Jury Award, at Oakland's Parkway Theater, 1834 Park Blvd. Clay will also sign copies of his latest novel "Looker" after the presentation.

Clay's previous novel "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men" received the 2005 N.Y. Hotep Society's Book Award for Best Gay novel, and his play "Ritual" (upon which his film is based) earned him 3 NAACP Theatre Awards for playwriting, direction, and producing.

As an actor during the 70's, 80's, and 90's, he starred and guest starred in nearly a hundred films and TV shows, including "Room 222," "Good Times," "Cannonball," "Minstrel Man," and "James Michener's Dynasty."

On stage his starring performance opposite BerNadette Stanis in "Anna Lucasta" won him an NAACP Image Award for Best Actor (Equity Waiver Theatre).

For ten years (1991-2001) Clay edited and published SBC magazine, at the time the most widely distributed national monthly for and about the black LGBT community.

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