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New York LGBT Film Festival
NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, put on by NewFest (legal name The New Festival, Inc.), is the largest LGBTQ film festival in the United States and one of the most comprehensive forums of national and international LGBT film/video in the world. David Hatkoff has been Executive Director of NewFest since 2019. 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. 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 NewFest is the 12-day New York LGBT Film Festival. Additionally, year-round events include: the five-day Queering the Canon, the five-day NewFest Pride, and many advance screenings wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of LGBTQ Film Festivals
An LGBTQ film festival or queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBTQ focus in its selection of films. LGBT film festivals often screen films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience and are often activist spaces for awareness-raising around LGBT rights by country or territory, LGBT rights as well as for community building among LGBTQ community, queer communities. The first LGBTQ-focused film festivals were organized in the United States as part of the awakening LGBTQ rights in the United States, LGBTQ movement in the United States in the 1970s. The longest-running film festival with an LGBT focus is the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, which was established in 1977. Until the 1990s, LGBTQ film festivals were mostly informal screenings in Western countries. In the 1990s, Non-governmental organization, NGOs were founded to create and promote queer-focused film festivals and festivals became more commercialized. Around this time, more queer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Retablo (film)
''Retablo'' is a 2017 drama film directed by Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio."Retablo, el peso de la herencia" '''', August 13, 2017. The film is an international production with the participation of Peru, Germany and Norway. The cast also includes as Anatolia, Segundo's mother and Noé's wife. Delgado-Aparicio's full-length directorial debut, the film is written and acted in Ayacucho Quechua. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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. 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". Condoms were traditionally barred from us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Between Two Women (2000 Film)
''Between Two Women'' may refer to: * ''Between Two Women'' (1937 film) * ''Between Two Women'' (1945 film) * ''Between Two Women'' (1986 film) * ''Between Two Women'' (2000 film) {{SIA, films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
You I Love
''You I Love'' () 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 as John Reception On Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee ..., the film has an aggregated score of 38% based on 12 positive and 20 negative critic reviews. The website’s consensus reads: "A clumsy, overly stylized would-be satire." References External links * * 2000s Russian films 2000s Russian-language films 2004 romantic comedy films 2004 LGBTQ-related films 2004 films Bisex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 Nicu is both a masculine Romanian given name and a Romanian surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Nicu Ceaușescu (1951–1996), Romanian communist *Nicu Constantin (1938–2009), Romanian actor * Nicu Constantinescu (1840–1 ... (neonatal intensive care unit). References External links * * 2005 documentary films 2005 films Documentary films about health care Autobiographical documentary films 2000s English-language films English-language documentary films {{arts-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
A Year Without Love
''A Year Without Love'' () 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 * Mimí Ardú as Pablo's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 Ranka *Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 Games, Olympic gymnastics, 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, 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 Americans, Korean-American dancer who grew up in a Jewish adoption, adoptive family, and is a closeted (at least with respect to her parents) lesbian. Serena, Nicole and Jane begin to work together on a Cirq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Be Like Others
''Be Like Others: The Story of Transgendered Young Women Living in Iran'' (also known as ''Transsexual in Iran'') is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Tanaz Eshaghian about trans people in Iran. It explores issues of gender and sexual identity while following the personal stories of some of the patients at a Tehran gender reassignment clinic. The film played at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, winning three awards. Overview Although homosexual relationships are illegal (punishable by death) in Iran, sex reassignment operations are permitted. In 1987, Islamic leader Ayatollah Khomeini passed a fatwa allowing sex-change operations as a cure for "diagnosed transsexuals". ''Be Like Others'' shows the experiences of male and female patients at Dr. Bahram Mir-Jalali's Mirdamad Surgical Centre, a sex-reassignment clinic in Tehran. One of them is Ali Askar, a 24-year-old man who faces harassment from other men due to his feminine ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
''The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela'' is a 2008 drama film directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson. Premise Raquela, a Filipino Transsexualism, transsexual Prostitution, prostitute dreams of making a new life in Paris. She becomes an Internet Pornographic actor, porn star and meets Valerie, an Icelandic transsexual, and Michael, the owner of the website she works for. Cast *Raquela Rios as Herself *Stefan Schaefer as Ardilo, Michael *Olivia Galudo as Olivia *Brax Villa as Aubrey *Valerie Grand Einarsson as Valerie Einarsson Distribution and reception The film showed at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film. It has been screened in the ''Emerging Visions'' section of the 2008 South by Southwest festival in the United States. It received the Grand Jury Prize in the 10th 2008 Cinemanila International Film Festival at Malacañan Palace's Kalayaan Hall. References External linksOfficial site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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, eventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |