New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival

  • Cinépolis Cinema in Chelsea: 260 W23rd St, NY 1001; Brooklyn Academy of Music
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NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival put on by The New Festival, Inc., is one of the most comprehensive forums of national and international LGBT film/video in the world.

Founded in 1988, The New Festival, Inc is a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to showcasing the newest and best LGBT media for the greater New York metropolitan area.

As a partner in the first national LGBTQ media arts organization, NewFest hopes to expand its goals all over the country. NewFest strives to encourage and foster environments for LGBTQ and allied filmmakers and viewers to represent the diversity and complexity of voices in the LGBTQ community, and to amplify those voices across the nation.[1]

List of Events

The largest and most popular program from the New Festival is the week long NewFest LGBT film festival. Additionally, year-round events include: NewFest@BAM an annual "Best of NewFest" showcase at the landmark Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas; NewDraft, a screenplay reading and competition; and the Logo Lounge, which provides a space for viewers, producers, screenplays, and filmmakers can mingle and network during the film festival.[2]

NewFest has partnered with the LGBT Center in NYC to screen films on a monthly basis at the Center. Screenings to include discussions with the filmmakers.[3]

In 2020, the festival was one of the key partners, alongside Outfest Los Angeles, the Frameline Film Festival and the Inside Out Film and Video Festival, in the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBT film.[4]

Grand Jury Award Winners

  • 2020: Cowboys, Welcome to the USA, and Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story
  • 2019: Tremors and Queen of Lapa
  • 2018: Jules of Light and Dark, Retablo, and Sidney & Friends
  • 2017: The Feels, The City of the Future, and Alabama Bound
  • 2011: Circumstance and Gone
  • 2010: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
  • 2009: Light Gradient [de] and Prodigal Sons
  • 2008: The Lost Coast, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, and Be Like Others
  • 2007: Times Have Been Better and Saving Marriage
  • 2006: The Gymnast, Go West, and Camp Out
  • 2005: A Year Without Love and Little Man
  • 2004: You I Love and Garden
  • 2003: Between Two Women, I Exist, and The Gift
  • 2002: The Ignorant Fairies and Out in the Cold
  • 2001: O Fantasma and Bombay Eunuch
  • 2000: Water Drops on Burning Rocks and Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay & Lesbian Parents
  • 1997: Chocolate Babies and You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men

Audience Award Winners

See also

References

  1. ^ "NewFest". Outfest. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  2. ^ "NewFest: The New York LGBT Film Festival New York City.com : Profile". NYC.com. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  3. ^ "NewFest at The Center".
  4. ^ Jeff Ewing, "Major LGBTQ Film Festivals Partner To Create The ‘North American Queer Festival Alliance’ (NAQFA)". Forbes, June 17, 2020.

External links

  • The New Festival, Inc.
  • NewFest on Facebook
  • BAM Rose Cinemas
  • Pioneer Theater
  • Cinepolis USA - Chelsea
  • OutFest
  • List of LGBT Film Festivals
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