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Newfest
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. 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 Ro ...
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Jules Of Light And Dark
''Jules of Light and Dark'' is a 2018 American drama film directed by Daniel Laabs. It was screened at NewFest's 2018 film festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature. Plot Two young lovers, Maya and Jules, are found wrecked on the side of the road after a party by a loner roughneck, Freddy. During rehab, their relationship falls apart, and Maya forms an unlikely friendship with Freddy. Cast Reception ''Jules of Light and Dark'' has been well-received at various film festivals, including NewFest, Outfest, and Austin Film Festival Austin Film Festival (AFF), founded in 1994, is an organization in Austin, Texas, that focuses on writers’ creative contributions to film. Initially, AFF was called the Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and functioned to launch the .... Stephen Saito wrote “''Jules of Light and Dark'' is the rare film where you not only witness a meaningful change for the characters, but suspect they’ll continue to ...
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Prodigal Sons (film)
''Prodigal Sons'' is a 2008 American documentary produced and directed by Kimberly Reed. Background In the 1960s Carol McKerrow is a married woman living in Montana. She and her husband Loren, believing that she is infertile, adopt a baby boy they name Marc. Carol is surprised to discover that on the day they bring home Marc, she probably became pregnant with her first biological child. The child appears to be a perfectly physically fit boy. Carol names the child Paul. Soon, another child, Todd, is born. Plot Paul becomes a high achiever: a high school football hero, socially popular, named "best looking," and the class valedictorian. Paul however, since kindergarten, has felt that something was askew with the male gender that was assigned at birth. Paul begins to discover that she is transgender and changes her name to Kimberly Reed. She eventually transitions into a confident and successful woman in society, and also happens to be lesbian. Kim's younger brother, Todd, eventua ...
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The Feels (film)
''The Feels'' is a 2017 dramedy Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ... film directed by Jenée LaMarque. Starring Constance Wu, Angela Trimbur, Josh Fadem, and LaMarque, the film follows a group of friends who set out on a lesbian bachelorette weekend. Plot For the upcoming nuptials of Andi and Lu, a group of friends celebrate during bachelorette weekend. Under the influence of alcohol, Lu admits to everyone that she has never had an orgasm, to Andi's complete surprise and dismay. The fun weekend is derailed in unexpected ways, causing everyone to reflect on subjects such as trust, love, and their first orgasms. Cast * Constance Wu as Andi / Bride * Angela Trimbur as Lu / Bride * Josh Fadem as Josh * Jenée LaMarque as Nikki / Lu's sister * Ever Mainard as ...
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LGBT
' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is an adaptation of the initialism ', which began to replace the term ''gay'' (or ''gay and lesbian'') in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT. It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, ', adds the letter ''Q'' for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity. The initialisms ''LGBT'' or ''GLBT'' are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include. History of the term The first widely used term, '' homosexu ...
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The Ignorant Fairies
''The Ignorant Fairies'' ( it, Le fate ignoranti; released on DVD in the US as ''His Secret Life'') is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Turkish-Italian film director Ferzan Özpetek. The story follows a woman who discovers that her recently deceased husband had been having an affair with another man. In 2022, Disney+ released a TV serialization of the film, directed once more by Özpetek. Plot Antonia, a doctor specializing in the treatment of AIDS, and her husband Massimo are a couple of forty, socially established, who seem to live an intense and perfect bond, albeit quite routine, disturbed only by the difficult relationship that the woman lives with her mother. Antonia's quiet everyday life is irreparably upset when Massimo suddenly dies, run over by a car. Her violent detachment from her husband throws the woman into gloomy despair, into deep mourning that prevents her from reacting and makes relations with her mother, also a long-time widow, even more difficult. In ...
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The Gift (2003 Film)
''The Gift'' is a 2003 documentary film by filmmaker Louise Hogarth documenting the phenomenon of deliberate HIV infection; such practices are known colloquially as bugchasing, for seeking and providing voluntary HIV infection, respectively. The film follows the stories of two "bug chasers" who are seeking "the gift" of HIV infection. Interviews are also conducted with AIDS activist and author, Walt Odets, PhD, and HIV positive and negative men. The film explores the normalization and glamorization of HIV/AIDS and discusses the isolation and division caused by HIV status in the gay community. Synopsis Doug Hitzel, a young man, reveals that after a year of unsuccessful dating he decided to engage in unprotected sex in an attempt to fit in; he is then seen crying. Doug Hitzel died September 26, 2017. Kenboy, another young man, explains he moved to an LA sex house with sex parties and was relieved to finally catch HIV; the sex parties were known as "Standard Fuck Parties"; the ...
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Between Two Women (2000 Film)
''Between Two Women'' is a 2000 historical film by British writer-director Steven Woodcock. It tells the story of Ellen, a factory worker's wife trapped in an unhappy marriage amidst the grime and industrial noise of northern England. Plot Working class Ellen (Barbara Marten) makes friends with her young son's middle-class schoolteacher, Kathy, also known as Miss Thompson (Andrina Carroll). As the two bond over Ellen's son's Victor's outstanding talent for drawing, a relationship blossoms between the two women. Ellen's husband constantly criticises Ellen and Victor, and their relationship is shown to be hostile and abusive. Ellen's husband, a mill worker, is unable to see the value of the art Victor creates, and is distrustful of his wife. He is also hurt and embarrassed when a piece of Victor's work sells for almost as much as he earns from his monthly wage. Ultimately, with no warning, Kathy moves away - but writes to Ellen. They meet, and admit their feelings for one ano ...
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You I Love
''You I Love'' (russian: Я люблю тебя, Ya lyublyu tebya) is a 2004 Russian comedy melodrama directed by Olga Stolpovskaja and Dmitry Troitsky. It was the first ever film to come from Russia on the subject of homosexuality or bisexuality. Cast * Damir Badmaev as Ulyumdzhi * Lyubov Tolkalina as Vera Kirillova * Yevgeny Koryakovsky as Timofey * Nina Agapova as Timofey's neighbor * Emanuel Michael Waganda Emanuel may refer to: * Emanuel (name), a given name and surname (see there for a list of people with this name) * Emanuel School, Australia, Sydney, Australia * Emanuel School, Battersea, London, England * Emanuel (band), a five-piece rock band fr ... as John References External links * * * 2004 comedy-drama films 2004 LGBT-related films 2004 films Bisexuality-related films LGBT-related comedy-drama films Russian comedy-drama films Russian LGBT-related films {{2000s-comedy-film-stub ...
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Little Man (2005 Film)
''Little Man'' (stylized as ''little man'') is a 2005 American documentary film by Nicole Conn. The film was intended to document surrogate pregnancy but the baby was delivered 100 days early so the film documents experiences of a family dealing with an extremely premature birth involving 158 days in a NICU A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. Neonatal refers to the first 28 days of life. Neonatal care, as kn ... (neonatal intensive care unit). References External links * * 2005 documentary films 2005 films Documentary films about health care Autobiographical documentary films 2000s English-language films {{arts-documentary-film-stub ...
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A Year Without Love
''A Year Without Love'' ( es, Un año sin amor) is a 2005 Argentine drama film directed by Anahí Berneri, and written by Berneri and Pablo Pérez, adapting Pérez's autobiographical novel of the same title. The plot follows Pablo, a writer dealing with loneliness and AIDS. Yearning for love, he places ads in a gay magazine and finds himself involved in the secretive world of Buenos Aires gay leather scene. ''A Year Without Love'' played the international and gay and lesbian film festival circuits, garnering a number of awards including the Teddy Bear prize for the Best Gay Film at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. Plot Pablo is a struggling poet who is living with HIV in Buenos Aires. Over the course of a year he deals with issues relating to his health, his family, his search for love and his developing involvement with leather fetishism. The year culminates with the publication of his diary in the form of a novel, ''Un Año sin amor.'' Cast * Juan Minujín as Pablo Pérez * Mi ...
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Go West (2005 Film)
''Go West'' is a 2005 Bosnian drama directed by Ahmed Imamović. It tells the story of two gay lovers, one being a Bosniak and the other a Serb, during the Bosnian War. It was developed jointly by two studios, one being in Bosnia and the other in Croatia. Plot Kenan (Mario Drmać), a Bosniak classical musician, and Milan ( Tarik Filipović), a Serb, live in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in a clandestine gay relationship. When the Bosnian War breaks out in 1992, they try to escape from the city. In order to hide from Serbian militiamen, Kenan disguises himself as a woman and Milan passes him off as his wife. Together, they go to Milan's village in Eastern Bosnia, a Serb stronghold, where they continue to live in deception. However, Milan is soon conscripted into the army and Kenan is left behind in the village. Ranka, a woman from the village, discovers Kenan's secret and seduces him. Cast * Tarik Filipović as Milan * Rade Šerbedžija as Ljubo * Mirjana Karanović as Ran ...
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The Gymnast (film)
''The Gymnast'' is a 2006 film directed by Ned Farr and starring Dreya Weber, Addie Yungmee, and David De Simone. It received a sequel called ''The Aerialist'' released in 2020. Plot Jane Hawkins (Dreya Weber) was once an Olympic gymnast whose career was ended by a devastating injury. Now in her 40s, she is in a loveless and childless marriage to her husband David (David de Simone) and works as a massage therapist, while still exercising religiously to keep herself in peak condition. After a chance meeting with a former friend from the gymnastics world, Denise (Allison Mackie), Jane takes an interest in aerial dance and begins lessons with gymnastics trainer Nicole (Mam Smith). During her lessons, Jane meets Serena (Addie Yungmee), a Korean-American dancer who grew up in a Jewish adoptive family, and is a closeted (at least with respect to her parents) lesbian. Serena, Nicole and Jane begin to work together on a Cirque du Soleil style aerial act, which Nicole hopes to present ...
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