This Thursday January 21st at 5:30m pm PST / 8:30pm EST, join Newfest and Emmy-nominated Circus of Books filmmaker and artist Rachel Mason and the Peabody and Emmy-winning creator of Transparent, Joey Soloway, in conversation. Rachel and Joey will discuss the importance and dynamics of LGBTQ families, Jewish identity, and the cathartic and complex art... Continue Reading →
This year's week-long Sundance Film Festival, which opens on Thursday January 28th, will run digitally via a custom-designed online platform (festival.sundance.org) alongside drive-ins, screenings at independent arthouses, and a network of local community partnerships. All films in the program will be available online in the United States, with certain titles opting for global availability. The... Continue Reading →
Queer Screen’s 28th Mardi Gras Film Festival has announced its full lineup of queer treats that will debut both in cinemas in Sydney and online on-demand across Australia from February 18th to March 4th 2021. MGFF will screen 94 films including narrative features, docs, shorts, and episodics, with 70% of those available on-demand. The program... Continue Reading →
This weekend sees the Tom of Finland Foundation's (ToFF) annual celebration of queer art and artists go digital with their 25th Art & Culture Festival: Plugged In. As the centennial year of the groundbreaking and much-loved Finnish artist's birthday draws to a close, ToFF, which was founded in his honour 36 years ago by his... Continue Reading →
Brooklyn based drag queen and artist Untitled Queen (aka Matthew de Leon) has curated the first global LGBTQIA+ digital drag show, Untitled (World) a virtual show featuring 47 drag artists from around the world each representing one country. The livestream will premiere on YouTube this Saturday Dec 5th 2020 at 5pm EST. Through an open... Continue Reading →
For Day With(out) Art 2020, Visual AIDS presents TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK). The program does not intend to give a comprehensive account of... Continue Reading →
Brian Belovitch's GLAAD Award-nominated autobiographical play Boys Don’t Wear Lipstick celebrates its 20th anniversary with a virtual benefit playreading tonight, Monday November 9th at 8pm ET. Boys Don't Wear Lipstick, directed by Everett Quinton, details the writer's journey "from boyhood to manhood – by way of a 15-year detour through womanhood." The event will feature an all-star... Continue Reading →
The virtual 11th edition of America’s largest documentary festival, DOC NYC runs from November 11th to 19th and will be available online throughout the US. The 2020 lineup of over 200 films, includes 107 features, with 23 world premieres and 19 US premieres. Over half of the features are directed or co-directed by women and... Continue Reading →
Tonight, Sunday October 18th at 8pm ET, Entertainment Tonight's Keltie Knight and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Nina West host the virtual variety show Divas For Democracy: United We Slay. Broadway divas will belt out some of the most iconic musical theatre numbers while their drag diva counterparts match their vocal prowess with lip sync passion... Continue Reading →
NewFest, the 32nd New York LGBTQ Film Festival launches today Friday October 16th at 8pm ET with the NYC premiere of God's Own Country filmmaker Francis Lee’s Ammonite. Oscar-winner Kate Winlset who stars opposite Saoirse Ronan in the film, will virtually present Lee with NewFest's inaugural World Queer Visionary Award ahead of the opening night... Continue Reading →
