NEWFEST
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES at NEW FEST : NY’s LGBTQA+ Film Festival
Founded in 1988, NEWFEST, the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is one of the world’s largest and most respected annual celebrations of the year’s best queer films from the U.S. and abroad–featuring nearly 150 films from more than 30 countries, as well as special events that bring together filmmakers, celebrities, movie lovers, and industry…
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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…
