The Night Life had its world premiere April 25, 2004 at the sixth Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, where it received First Prize in the Animation category of the PlanetOut.com Short Movie Awards. The other PlanetOut.com winners were: Little Black Boot (Grand Prize), Seventy (Comedy), Isn't It Obvious (Documentary), Stand By (Drama), and bobbycrush (Experimental).

You can see QuickTime versions of all the winning films at the 2004 PlanetOut.com awards site.

Several of the winners picked up their awards in person. From left to right: Tony Osso (Stand By), Steve Hutton (The Night Life), Carol Coombes (MGLFF program director and ultimate fashion accessory), and Honey Labrador (Little Black Boot).

There's a scene at the end of Roman Holiday where the Princess (Audrey Hepburn) is asked which of the cities she visited is her favourite. Her advisor whispers "each city in its own way" and she starts to say it, but then she says "Rome". Although each film festival is wonderful in its own way, it's hard to imagine one that would be more enjoyable to attend than Miami. After two days of sun and sand and smooth jazz, pastels and palm trees, and being driven around by "handsome host Jeff Weinstock" (that's apparently his official title), life seems pretty sweet.

The Night Life was included in Indiewire's coverage of the festival, both in the photo spread and the writeup.

Other festivals

Toronto	May 2004	InsideOut	along with Auditions to be the Next Canadian, Chevrogay, The Mezzo's, Fire Island Pines on $0 a Day, Masturbation: Putting the Fun Back into Self-Loving, Kim & Cookie, The Stroke, A Fine Romance (in three parts), Before I Was Sad (Avant j'étais triste), Shop Until We All Drop, and Gaydar
Fort Worth	Jun 2004	QCinema	along with David Leddick's The Male Nude, Gulabi Aaina (The Pink Mirror), and Sunflowers
Philadelphia	Jul 2004	Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival	along with Drag Queen Heist, Fairies, Love and Deaf, Spokane - My Brother's Wedding, and Tan Lines: The Making of "Suntanned Bikini"
North Carolina	Aug 2004	North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival^SM	along with Straw Hat, Proposal, Current Conditions, The Judas Kiss, Two Minutes After Midnight, and Fairy Tales: Next Gen
Manila	Aug 2004	Pride International Film Festival	along with Paradisco and Eden's Curve
Austin	Aug 2004	Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival	along with Drag Queen Heist, Fairy Tales: Next Gen, Stunt C*cks, Proposal, Powerplay, and The Delicious
Lisbon	Sep 2004	Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival	along with Ritchie's Itch, The Cucumber Chronicles, The Milkman, and Love is Strange
Montréal	Sep 2004	image+nation	along with F*STOP, Fashion Victim, Phase 5, Poles Apart, The Rules, The Devil On Her Mind, and A Woman Reported...
Las Vegas	Sep 2004	NeonFest	along with Vamanos, Stag Party, Red Flag Women, and Fecund
Seattle	Oct 2004	Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival	along with The Vampire Lovers
New York	Oct 2004	Cinekink	along with Superfag, Christ! (A Tale of the Passion of the Christs), Dream Human, Succubus, and Spanky! Spanky!
Pittsburgh	Oct 2004	Pittsburgh International Lesbian And Gay Film Festival	along with Lipstick, Drag Queen Heist, XX to XY: Fighting to Be Jake, Skate Her, and Steven's Sin
Springfield	Nov 2004	Ozarks Out Film Festival	along with Stag Party, My Porn Star, and Labels: An Experimental Short
Spokane	Nov 2004	Spokane Gay/Lesbian Film Festival	along with Fairies, Shake the Rain, Gay Pioneers, and Have No Fear
Brno and Prague	Nov 2004	Mezipatra	along with The Nights of Blue, Somebody, The Offering, Ozzy and Harry, Thick Lips Thin Lips, High Hopes, Before I Was Sad (Avant j'étais triste), One Day, and gay?
Bern	Nov 2004	Queersicht	along with The Nearly Unadventurous Life Of Zoe Cadwaulder, The Redemption Of Ogum, Little Black Boot, Same Difference, and You Fake
Madrid	Nov 2004	Lesgaicinemad	along with Shenmue: Cruising for Sailors, Booty Dance, Gestalt, Gay Toy Story, Fairy Tales: Next Gen, Christopher and Gordy, Drive Thru, Power Play, In the Beginning, Lunata, Sing Sing Sing, and Con Qué La Lavaré?
Valladolid	Nov 2004	Cinhomo	along with Tan De Repente
Valencia	Nov 2004	LesGaiFestiVal	along with Shenmue: Cruising for Sailors, Fairy Tales: Next Gen, Christopher and Gordy, Drive Thru, Power Play, In the Beginning, Lunata, Sing Sing Sing, and Con Qué La Lavaré?
Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia	Nov, Dec 2004	Mix Brasil Cinema and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity	along with Rain, Before I Was Sad (Avant j'étais triste), three installments of Misadventures of Pussy Boy: First Love, Sick, and First Period, Bubble Canopy, Powerplay, Bibaloka, An Animated Meeting, And God Created Light, Devil Inside, Bikini, and Con Qué La Lavaré?
Brussels	Jan 2005	Brussels Gay and Lesbian Film Festival	along with Croque Monsieur, Far West, Feltch Sanders, Gaydar, Heterosexist Clothes, Just for Leather, Queerweb, and Toronto! Toronto!!
Kingston	Feb 2005	ReelOut Queer Film Festival	along with Envy for the Dead and HellBent
Phoenix	Feb 2005	Out Far! Phoenix International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival	along with Coffee, Drag Queen Heist, Feltch Sanders, Freud Slips, Just for Leather, Last Full Show, Life's a Drag, Presents, Removal, Stag Party, and Stereorama
Toronto	Feb 2005	Love and Lust International Film Festival	along with Spank, Choke, Mohandas & Bette: A Love Story, Polly & Me, A Woman of Wealth and Taste, Brief Story of How a Man and a Woman Met and Fell in Love, and The Dog Walker
Oregon	Feb 2005	University of Oregon Queer Film Festival	along with What Grown Ups Know, Toilet Training, Pink, and other films
Hamilton	Mar 2005	Hamilton Film Festival	along with Hatred of the Wheel, Impact, The Legend of Bill, Just A Day, Simply Shale - Dog Alone, Al the Barber Show and Tell, and Janus
Waterloo	Mar 2005	Rainbow Reels	along with Stag Party
Providence	Apr 2005	Queer Window	along with the feature film D.E.B.S.
Utah	Apr 2005	Pridefest 2005
Hartford	Jun 2005	Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival	along with John & Michael, The Virile Man, Cairo Calling, Groomed, and Eating Out
Halifax	Jul 2005	Reel Pride Film Festival	along with World's Worst Architecture, Darla's Goodbye, and the feature film Fluff
Winnipeg	Nov 2005	Reel Pride	along with PeepShow: An Erotic Comedy, Heterosexist Clothes, The Conflix From Within, and Drag in tha 'Peg

The Night Life also screened in Albuquerque at a benefit to raise funds for "Faces", a documentary by Crone Productions about the same-sex marriage issue in New Mexico.