NewFest Pride: Black Queer Pride Shorts with Vimeo

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Join NewFest & Vimeo for a celebratory short film showcase by and about Black LGBTQ+ lives, joys, and experiences -- from Sundance premieres to Vimeo Staff Picks to NewFest festival favorites. MnM
Directed by Twiggy Pucci Garçon, 15 mins
An exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community. Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explores the power and beauty of being nonbinary in a community that can be both liberating and compartmentalized around gender. 
GIRL BLUNT
Directed by Clementine Narcisse, 10 mins
Two young women decide to use their newly found drug-dealing business to get revenge against a conniving man of their past.
GAUZE
Directed by Kevaughn Reid, 10 mins
A meditative love story between an Airbnb host and his guest. Because of Amir, Noah felt something he never thought he would.
WONDERS
Directed by Huriyyah Muhammad, 17 mins
Two hard-working moms are struggling to make a better life for themselves and their  toddler, but their luck turns around when their baby gives them an unexpected gift.
GRACE
Directed by Natalie Jasmine Harris, 14 mins
Sixteen-year-old Grace prepares for her baptism in the rural 1950's South. When she learns she must repent before the ritual, Grace contemplates her romantic feelings toward her best friend Louise. 
HOLD ON TO ME
Directed by Te Shima Brennen and Rajvi Desai, 5 mins
Meet LaTravious Collins (aka Mother LaTravious), a mother to the community and the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Ghost Project.
SIS
Directed by Miranda Haymon, 11 mins
In this surrealist black comedy, a woman's curiosity in her ex-crush's new girlfriend complicates after their cosmic meet cute at a Brooklyn rooftop party.

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