Mission

NewFest Mission Statement: Visibility & Vision

NewFest is dedicated to bringing together filmmakers and audiences in the building of a community that passionately supports giving greater visibility and voice to a wide range of expressions and representations of the LGBT experience.  We are committed to nurturing emerging LGBT and allied filmmakers. We support those artists who are willing to take risks in telling the stories that fully reflect the diversity and complexity of our lives. And we’re committed to bringing our audience stories that transform our vision of who we are and who we can be.

Through the New York LGBT film festival, presented annually since 1988, and year-round programming, NewFest celebrates fine domestic and international film as part of our mission to break through closet doors and glass ceilings everywhere.

PROGRAMMING

NewFest’s programming includes the annual NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, one of the most comprehensive showcases of international LGBT film in the world; NewFest@BAM, an annual showcase at the landmark Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rose Cinemas; NewDraft, NewFest’s screenplay competition and reading series; and the OP.Lynx Women’s Brunch Series, which is co-hosted by the Women’s Network of Out Professionals.