NEWFEST
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NY”s NEWFEST steps up to the plate when Desperado Queer Film Fest in Arizona is Cancelled
Last month, the organizers of the Desperado LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Phoenix announced that they canceled the event “in direct response” to Trump’s executive order aimed at ending diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at publicly funded institutions. This would have been their 17th Edition. In their statement, the organisers said Continuing with the festival this…
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Queerguru’s Picks of MUST SEE MOVIES at NY’s NEWFEST
The 34th Edition of NewFest, New York’s largest presenter of LGBTQ+ film & media and the largest convener of LGBTQ+ audiences in the city kicked off yesterday with the World Premiere of Mama’s Boy A Story of Our Americas. This film, an adaption of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s best selling memoir…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews I’LL SHOW YOU MINE : a two-hander family confrontational drama
This fictional film is split into 10 chapters titled: Discovery, Observation, Assessment, Negotiation, Presumption, Revelation, Persistence, Misdirection, Culmination, and Coalescence. A talky film with animations illustrating the dialogue the two protagonists have. Priya Sura (Poorna Jagannathan) invites Nick (Casey Thomas Brown), to work together as partners in the (illustrated?) book she is going to…
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Queering the Canon: Rom-Coms for Happy Ever After (maybe?)
Calling ALL queer romantics: has NEWFEST got something for you! They are producing an excellent retrospective with some cult rom-coms and a few rare gems that you haven’t seen yet. So if you are looking for that happy-ever-after tale that will have you sobbing into your kleenex or just a night of love…
