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Special Benefit Screening
Hooked
SVA Theatre
Photo by Yifu Chien | Special Benefit Screening | Presented in partnership with The Ali Forney Center and SVA Theatre U.S. Premiere This timely narrative feature debut from writer/director and Instagram superstar Max Emerson (@maxisms), poignantly ca...
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Cherry Pop
SVA Theatre
Photo by Yifu Chien THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT | OutCinema NYC PRIDE Screening & Party | Presented in partnership with NYC Pride and SVA Theatre New York Premiere! Get strapped up, tucked in and ready for a whirlwind of antics, one-liners and manic misfi...
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No Dress Code Required (6/16)
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
| Co-Presented with Human Rights Watch Film Festival | Víctor and Fernando, a devoted, unassuming couple from Mexicali, Mexico, find themselves in the center of a legal firestorm over their desire to get married. Weighing all their options, the pai...
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Boys in the Sand
Quad Cinema
| Co-Presented with Quad Cinema | NY premiere of 2K restoration! The explicit debut porn feature from Broadway director and dancer Wakefield Poole—following the sexcapades of Casey Donovan on Fire Island—became a cultural sensation during its ori...
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Pride Shorts
Screening Room at The Center
| NewFest at The Center Presents | Join us as we celebrate LGBT Pride with a diverse set of short films showcasing stories that highlight those things which unite us as a community, and provide opportunities to learn from our differences. Q&A with fi...
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Queer Shorts: Best of NewFest 2016
Sunshine Cinema
| Co-Presented with the Lower East Side Film Festival | Featuring short narrative highlights from NewFest's 28th Annual New York LGBT Film Festival this past October, this varied program captures the everyday, universal experiences of life and love w...
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The Tony Awards, Movie Musicals, and Equality March for Unity & Pride Speeches!
SVA Theatre
| FREE COMMUNITY EVENT | Let us take you Center Stage! NewFest, SVA Theatre, and Show-Score.com are pleased to invite you to an open-house where we'll be showing the the 71st Annual Tony Awards, four great musicals celebrating their 35th anniversary ...
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Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn
| Co-Presented with Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn | A seedy specimen of psychosexual noir, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? captures mid-60s NYC seediness through a haze of cigarette smoke and desultory delirium. Directed by Joseph Cates, this proto-queer relic of...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn
| Co-Presented with Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn | This event is sold out Initially tossed aside as a dashed-off follow-up to a surprise horror hit, this slasher sequel was often kept in the closet of the Freddy Kruger franchise. But what audiences miss...
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Becoming More Visible
Screening Room at The Center
| NewFest at The Center Presents | Screening, Talkback, and Reception Winner! Award of Merit, IMPACT DOC AWARDS As groundbreaking as it is intimate, BECOMING MORE VISIBLE takes an insightful look at the varied lives and challenges of four young adult...
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3 Generations
AMC Loews 19th St.
FREE Member Advance Screening 3 GENERATIONS tells the stirring and touching story of three generations of a family living under one roof in New York as they deal with the life-changing transformation by one that ultimately affects them all. Ray (Elle...
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Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America
Screening Room at The Center
| NewFest at The Center Presents | Screening, Talkback, and Reception "Eye-opening and inspiring" —The Hollywood Reporter Special Programming Award for Freedom, Outfest LA Growing up in North Carolina as an undocumented gay man, Mexican-born Moises...
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Girl on Girl + Out Again
Screening Room at The Center
Advance Tickets for this event are SOLD OUT. There will be a rush line beginning at 6pm at the venue on the day of the screening. | NewFest at The Center Presents | This involving documentary highlights the emotional consequences of feminine lesbian ...
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Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens
Screening Room at The Center
| NewFest at The Center Presents | Screening, Talkback and Reception with director, producer and featured cast NEW YORK PREMIERE Inviting viewers into a conversation about the distinct and important differences between gender, sex and sexuality, "Kin...
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Political Animals
Screening Room at The Center
NewFest at The Center Presents Winner, Best Documentary Audience Award, NewFest 2016 Grand Jury & Audience Prize, LA Film Festival Audience Award, Provincetown Film Festival This unflinchingly honest and expansive documentary looks into the early day...
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