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

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Newfest)

Template:Short description Template:DMCA

Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

NewFest: New York LGBT Film Festival
StatusActive
GenreFilm festival
FrequencyAnnually
VenueVarious locations, including, BAM Rose Cinemas, LGBT Community Center, Nitehawk Prospect Park, SVA Theatre
LocationTemplate:Pluralize from textNew York City, New York
CountryU.S.
Founded1988 (38 years ago) (1988)
Leader
David Hatkoff, Executive Director (since 2019)
SponsorThe New Festival, Inc.
Websitenewfest.org

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".

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.[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">citation needed]

History and operations

David Hatkoff has been the executive director of NewFest since 2019.[1]

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.[2]

List of events

The largest and most popular program from NewFest is the twelve-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.[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]

Awards

Page Module:Message box/ambox.css has no content.

Grand Jury Award winners

Page Template:Div col/styles.css has no content.

Audience Award winners

Page Template:Div col/styles.css has no content.

See also

Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 404: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ramos, Dino-Ray (July 23, 2019). "NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival Sets David Hatkoff As Executive Director". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NewFest". Outfest. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NewFest at The Center". NewFest. Archived from the original on September 5, 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Ewing, Jeff (June 17, 2020). "Major LGBTQ Film Festivals Partner to Create the ‘North American Queer Festival Alliance’ (NAQFA)". Forbes. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=New_York_Lesbian,_Gay,_Bisexual,_%26_Transgender_Film_Festival&oldid=1956270"