NewFest is arguably the best LGBTQ+ film festival in the United States. In over three decades of its history (founded in 1988), NewFest has become the largest showcase for LGBTQ+-themed stories and has shown progress and growth with the times. Year, after year, its film and media lineup of gay, lesbian, trans and gender-nonconforming, pan, [...]
NewFest, New York’s leading LGBTQ+ film and media event and one of the world's most respected LGBTQ+ film festivals is here and they have announced their full line-up for The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival’s 33rd year, including its opening and closing night films and centerpiece screenings. MAYOR PETE, directed by Jesse Moss. (USA) is [...]
Today, an important, award-winning documentary on the battle of marriage equality arrives on DVD. CHURCH & STATE, the LGBTQ film, chronicles the assertive approach of an inexperienced, gay activist and a tiny Salt Lake City law firm joining forces to overturn Utah’s gay marriage ban. Captured on camera, the bumpy road to equality in Utah […]
When filmmaker Peter McDowell set out to learn more about his late brother Jimmy, he knew only fragments: Jimmy was a 24-year-old Vietnam veteran who died in Saigon in 1972, a few years after his military service. What Peter didn’t know—what his family never fully spoke of—was the emotional terrain Jimmy had traversed: a deep [...]
If you're a fan of straight-to-stream movies, you will no doubt have seen Brit actor, Nicholas Galitzine, all over social media recently, promoting his convergent release of projects. The handsome, youthful 30-year-old is on the cusp of major stardom, currently starring opposite Anne Hathaway in THE IDEA OF YOU (Amazon Prime), where he plays a [...]
Next Generation Indie Film Awards has announced its winners for the 3rd annual Awards Gala, which took place at Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles on October 29, 2023. The ceremony was hosted by actor and Co-Founder Calum Worthy. See the list of the winners below. Winners - Next Generation Indie Film Awards 2023 At [...]
Writer/Director Nicholas Stoller's BROS will make its world premiere at this September's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). BROS (2022) LGBTQ+ rom-com by director, Nicholas Stoller to premiere at this year's TIFF From the comic mind of Billy Eichner (Billy on the Street, 2019’s The Lion King, Difficult People, and Impeachment: American Crime Story) and the [...]
Written and directed by newcomer Phil Connell, this Canadian indie dramedy stars Thomas Duplessie and Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman in her last role. Leachman passed away last year at the age of 94. JUMP, DARLING follows a young, amateur, drag queen, Russell (Duplessie) who breaks up with his boyfriend and ends up living with his grandmother [...]
Irish rising star, Fionn O'Shea is making waves in the United States in indie hit films HANDSOME DEVIL (2017) and DATING AMBER one of the most talked-about films at New York's LGBTQ film festival, NewFest 2020 and NORMAL PEOPLE (series on HULU). - Photo: India Mullen (courtesy of European Shooting Stars 2021) Call it the [...]
DATING AMBER is an impressive and genuinely funny Irish film starring Fionn O'Shea and Lola Petticrew. - as seen at NewFest 2020 "This place will kill you," says Amber (Lola Petticrew) to Eddie (Fionn O'Shea) as they look over the green empty countryside and their small village in 1995 Ireland. The two are seniors in [...]
In the new, indie film, DEDALUS, by Jonah Greenstein, beautiful images are a seductive hook to catch viewers’ eyes and focus them on the harsh realities and struggles of everyday humans across this American land. DEDALUS (aka DADDY) is a snapshot of American lives in different corners of this wide country. In rural Iowa, a [...]
NewFest, New York’s leading LGBTQ film and media organization and one of the world's most respected LGBTQ film festivals, has announced its full line-up for The New York LGBTQ Film Festival’s 32nd year. This year NewFest will kick off with the NYC premiere of Francis Lee’s highly anticipated AMMONITE starring Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet and [...]