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Meet the NYFF60 Team. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, with the 60th edition taking place September 30-October 16, 2022. An annual bellwether of the state of cinema that has shaped film culture since 1963, the festival continues a long-standing tradition of introducing ...
We’re thrilled to unveil the first highlights of the 2024 New York Asian Film Festival, taking place in our theaters from July 12-22! The festival will host the premieres of 20 feature debuts, its largest lineup of newcomers ever, and features an amplified number of films focusing on LGBTQ+ characters and themes, including several that ...
Over 30 Years Experience. 50+ Productions. On Time & On Budget. Eda Lishman, Creative & Development, has spent her life in Film; starting with her own advertising agency producing award-winning commercials and infomercials.
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- ‘Then, now and forever’
This week, a dedicated collection of queer movie lovers will flock to screenings across Manhattan and Brooklyn as NewFest, New York’s premier LGBTQ film festival, marks its 35th anniversary. To celebrate having survived 3½ decades, the annual festival has secured a stacked list of titles that includes some of the year’s biggest awards-season contenders.
The lineup — bookended by Netflix’s “Rustin” biopic on opening night and Searchlight Pictures’ “All of Us Strangers” to close — continues a pattern of expansion for the nonprofit group behind the festival, which runs Thursday to Oct. 24.
“Over the years, studios and distributors have started to look at us in a different way and to see that not only do we have the reach and the audience, but that the specific energy that is created at a NewFest screening is a really great launchpad for a film,” David Hatkoff, the executive director of NewFest, said in a joint interview with Nick McCarthy, the director of programming, ahead of Thursday’s opening night festivities.
Some of the year’s centerpiece offerings — including Emma Fidel’s “Queen of New York,” which combines drag and New York City politics, and Daniel Peddle’s retrospective documentary “Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later” — are launching in the truest sense with world premieres. But many of the anniversary edition’s buzziest titles are using the festival as a jumping-off point into awards season after splashy debuts earlier in the year.
The closing night film, Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers,” a ghostly love story that deals with parental loss that stars Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) and Andrew Scott (“Fleabag”), premiered at this year’s Telluride Film Festival. But Haigh, whose film “Weekend” was the Narrative Centerpiece at NewFest in 2011, is sure to get a unique reception from a queer audience well-known to be big Mescal and Scott fans.
“Orlando: My Political Biography,” a stunning debut from career academic Paul B. Preciado, swept the Berlin International Film Festival when it premiered there in February. While the experimental documentary has already garnered dramatic accolades, such as “the first real trans masterpiece,” it’s still gaining steam as it transitions from festival darling to awards-season hopeful.
McCarthy described the ethos of this year’s festival as the “then, now and forever” of queer film. As part of that, the lineup includes what he calls a “monumentally gorgeous” restoration of Isaac Julien’s 1991 “Young Soul Rebels,” as well as the programming team’s favorite films from the more than 1,000 submissions it received ahead of the anniversary edition.
“In tandem with that, we’re celebrating queer icons that may not have even gotten their due in a more mainstream space,” McCarthy said of the titles that represent the “forever” part of the lineup, including “Rustin.”
The buzzy Rustin biopic, which is timed to the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, is the first film Wolfe has had at the festival. And Wolfe, the Tony-winning playwright and filmmaker who directed the Broadway premiere of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” is in good company. A number of the festival’s most sought-after screenings come courtesy of high-profile first-time NewFest directors.
NewFest newbies Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the husband-and-wife team behind the Oscar-winning 2018 documentary “Free Solo,” contributed the year’s U.S. Centerpiece, “Nyad.” Their narrative debut about swimmer Diana Nyad’s 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, is almost guaranteed to get a few glances from Motion Picture Academy voters (whenever that time, contingent on the end of the stalled SAG-AFTRA strike, actually comes).
Joining the directing duo in the centerpiece section is Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed filmmaker behind 2018’s “Shoplifters.” Although it’s out of the race for the Japanese Oscar selection, Kore-eda’s newest film, “Monster,” has had significant success at the global box office. The multi-perspective thriller about an incident at a Japanese elementary school, which Kore-eda made in consultation with an LGBTQ children’s organization, has been a slow-burner hit among critics since it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
William Oldroyd, the director behind 2016’s “Lady MacBeth,” which launched the career of Florence Pugh, is also appearing at NewFest for the first time. Oldroyd’s “Eileen,” which is based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s acclaimed first novel and stars Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie as juvenile detention co-workers whose fates become intertwined under twisted circumstances, is arguably the most anticipated sapphic film of an otherwise lesbian-less year.
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