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
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film
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video
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in the world.
David Hatkoff has been Executive Director of NewFest since 2019.
Founded in 1988, The New Festival, Inc is a
non-profit
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media arts organization dedicated to showcasing the newest and best
LGBT media for the greater
New York
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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 with various studios and streamers.
NewFest also has three artist development programs: The New Voices Filmmaker Grant, supported by Netflix; Sound & Scene, in partnership with Concord Originals; and the Black Filmmakers Initiative.
NewFest works with the NYC Department of Education on programs for high school students.
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.
In 2020, the festival was one of the key partners, alongside
Outfest Los Angeles, the
Frameline Film Festival
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and the
Inside Out Film and Video Festival, in the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBT film.
[Jeff Ewing]
"Major LGBTQ Film Festivals Partner To Create The ‘North American Queer Festival Alliance’ (NAQFA)"
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Grand Jury Award Winners
*2020: ''
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,'' ''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: ' 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
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'' 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
*2020: ''
Dating Amber'' and ''
Cured''
*2019: ''
And Then We Danced'' and ''
A Night at Switch n' Play''
*2018: ''
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''Man Made''
*2017: ''
A Date for Mad Mary
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'' and ''Hot to Trot''
*2016: ''
Suicide Kale'' and ''Political Animals''
*2015: ''
Those People'' and ''
The Same Difference
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*2014: ''
The Way He Looks''
*2013:
''Free Fall'', ''
Out in the Dark'' and ''
Valentine Road''
*2012: ''My Best Day'' and ''Love Free or Die''
*2011: ''
The Wise Kids'', ''Turtle Hill, Brooklyn,'' and ''One Night Stand''
*2010: ''
Children of God''
*2009: ''
Mississippi Damned'' and ''Florent: Queen of the Meat Market''
*2008:
''Pageant''
*2007:
''Out at the Wedding''
*2006:
''Cruel and Unusual''
*2005: ''Left Lane: On the Road with Folk Poet Alix Olson''
*2004: ''
Girl Play''
*2003:
''Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin''
*2002:
''Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House''
*2001: ''
The Iron Ladies''
See also
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List of film festivals in New York
*
List of LGBT film festivals
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Cinema of the United States
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LGBT culture in New York City
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References
External links
The New Festival, Inc.
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Film festivals established in 1988
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Film festivals in New York City
LGBTQ film festivals in the United States
LGBTQ culture in New York City
1988 establishments in New York City