New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival
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. 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. 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 and the Inside Out Film and Video Festival, in the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBT film. 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 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 2020: Dating Amber and Cured 2019: And Then We Danced and A Night at Switch n' Play 2018: Rafiki and Man Made 2017: A Date for Mad Mary and Hot to Trot 2016: Suicide Kale and Political Animals 2015: Those People and The Same Difference 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 List of film festivals in New York List of LGBT film festivals Cinema of the United States LGBT culture in New York City The New Festival, Inc. NewFest on Facebook BAM Rose Cinemas Pioneer Theater Cinepolis USA - Chelsea OutFest List of LGBT Film Festivals