"Film festivals for the LGBT community are not just about cinema”, Lesli Klainberg, NewFest’s Executive Director commented in a phone interview. “They have always functioned as community building events where like-minded audiences can commune in the presence of filmmakers in a shared experience.” This cinematic sharing begins later this week as NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Film  Festival kicks off an ambitious season of films currently playin...

NewFest (www.NewFest.org), the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender film festival is coming to locations across the city, July 21-28. The festival will open and close at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and will be headquartered throughout the week at Chelsea's SVA Theater and Cinema Village. Special satellite screenings will be held at The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Jewish Community Center on the Upper West Side, and Harlem Stage. Pri...

New Directors/New Films March 23-April 3, 2011 March 25th, 2011 § Leave a Comment 12 days, over 25 films, and 2 great venues! If  you worshiped the 90′s alternative grunge scene, thought Kurt Cobain was the sh!t, and admired the strength of  Courtney Love’s band, “Hole”, then “Hit So Hard”, P. David Ebersole’s rockumentary about the  life and near death experiences of  the redheaded female drummer, Patty Schemel, is one NOT to miss.  “Hit so Hard”...