It might not be as graphic as what you’re all watching at home, but beginning Aug. 22, gay movies are coming to Brooklyn.
For the entire weekend, NewFest, the queer film festival that screened over 250 movies in June, will be moving in, like lesbians on a second date, to the cinema at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
“As a whole,” said Basil Tsoikos, the festival’s artistic director. ”The programs represent a fantastic cross-section of the types of films that the larger June festival offers; documentaries, comedies, dramas and short films spotlighting diverse LGBT people in the U.S. and throughout the world.”
Plus the big lobby is great for cruising, right?
Included in the festival’s offerings are Pageant, a look at contestants competing for the title of Miss Gay America, OMG/HAHAHA, an ensemble drama from Memphis, TN, spotlighting the lives of the YouTube/MySpace generation; Ready? Ok!, which sold out two screenings in June, a comedy about a single mom and her probably gay pre-pubescent son; The World Unseen, a period piece about two South Asian women who fall in love in 1950s South Africa; and The Lost Coast, a lyrical and lush film about a group of friends in San Francisco.
“What makes the specific films in our BAM series ‘the best,’” said Tsiokos, “is that they consist largely of films that won awards at our June festival and proved popular with our audience, selling out those screenings.”
Not since Mamma Mia! has a community been so galvanized.
For the entire weekend, NewFest, the queer film festival that screened over 250 movies in June, will be moving in, like lesbians on a second date, to the cinema at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
“As a whole,” said Basil Tsoikos, the festival’s artistic director. ”The programs represent a fantastic cross-section of the types of films that the larger June festival offers; documentaries, comedies, dramas and short films spotlighting diverse LGBT people in the U.S. and throughout the world.”
Plus the big lobby is great for cruising, right?
Included in the festival’s offerings are Pageant, a look at contestants competing for the title of Miss Gay America, OMG/HAHAHA, an ensemble drama from Memphis, TN, spotlighting the lives of the YouTube/MySpace generation; Ready? Ok!, which sold out two screenings in June, a comedy about a single mom and her probably gay pre-pubescent son; The World Unseen, a period piece about two South Asian women who fall in love in 1950s South Africa; and The Lost Coast, a lyrical and lush film about a group of friends in San Francisco.
“What makes the specific films in our BAM series ‘the best,’” said Tsiokos, “is that they consist largely of films that won awards at our June festival and proved popular with our audience, selling out those screenings.”
Not since Mamma Mia! has a community been so galvanized.
