Founded in 1988, NewFest is New York’s largest presenter of LGBTQ+ film & media and the largest convener of LGBTQ+ audiences in the city
Founded in direct response to the AIDS crisis, the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival has been a tentpole of NYC’s queer cultural scene. In the subsequent years, NewFest has expanded into a film and media organization with year-long programs to serve all facets of the LGBTQ+ community.
New York LGBTQIA+ Film Festival started in 1988 and takes place in New YorK City, NY, USA
Jimpa starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow will open the 2025 editions of NewFest Pride on Thursday, May 29th and Frameline49, the 49th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival on Wednesday, June 18th. Directed by filmmaker Sophie Hyde, the drama made its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Duino, the feature directorial debut of co-directors actor-singer Juan Pablo Di Pace (Mamma Mia!) and Andrés Pepe Estrada, editor of the Oscar-nominated Argentine film Argentina, 1985, will have its New York premiere at the 36th edition of NewFest: New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.
NewFest unveiled the full lineup for the 36th edition of its annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival (NewFest36) featuring more than 140 new queer features, shorts and episodic projects, plus special legacy screenings.
Following the world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, the Mexican coming of age drama All the Fires (Todos los incendios) will have its North American premiere at the 35th NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, taking place in person and online, October 12-24, 2023.
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival announced its full lineup of 132 films from 26 countries for the 35th milestone anniversary year set for October 12 – 22 in theaters within New York, and virtually throughout the United States on NewFest’s on-demand platform through October 24. The festival’s in-person premieres will take place in Manhattan at SVA Theatre and The LGBT Community Center, and in Brooklyn at Nitehawk Prospect Park and The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
NewFest, home to the celebrated LGBTQ+ film festival, announced the full lineup for their third annual NewFest Pride Summer Film Series. The event kicks off LGBTQ+ Pride Month from June 1 – 5, 2023 in New York, and will feature a mix of exclusive in-person premieres/panels, virtual screenings, and social events.
The 34th NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival announced the winners of the juried awards, with top honors going to director Carter Smith for Swallowed (Grand Jury Prize, Narrative Feature), director Maryam Touzani for The Blue Caftan (Grand Jury Prize, International Feature), director Juliana Curi for Uyra – The Rising Forest (Grand Jury Prize, Documentary Feature), as well as director Nyala Moon for How Not to Date While Trans (Grand Jury Prize, New York Short).
The 34th NewFest: New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival will take place from October 13 – 25, 2022, showcasing more than 130 films, in theaters in NYC and virtually throughout the United States.
Andrew Ahn’s new film Fire Island, starring Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster, will open the 2nd edition of NewFest Pride, the summer series of NewFest, the New York LGBTQ+ film and media organization.
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ film festival revealed the 2020 lineup of Special Events and Panels as well as the juries.
Since 1980, Julia Scotti has been performing in clubs and theaters throughout the United States and Canada, performing for the first 20 years as Rick Scotti and appearing on bills with Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock. Now, after a long hiatus, the trans comedian returns to the stage as “the crazy old lady of comedy,” all documented in the new film Julia Scotti: Funny That Way.
