NewFest Announces 35th Anniversary Festival Award Winners
deadline.comNewFest, the LGBTQ+ film festival, has announced the award winners for the festival’s 35th anniversary run. The Grand Jury prizes included Erica Tremblay’s Fancy Dance for Narrative Feature, Goran Stolevski’s Housekeeping For Beginners for International Feature, Daniel Goncalves’s Acsexybility for Documentary Feature, and Nyala Moon’s Dilating For Maximum Results for New York Short.
The announcement, which included a number of other grantees and award winners, was made today at the festival’s award ceremony in Brooklyn by NewFest Executive Director David Hatkoff, Director of Programming Nick McCarthy, and Programmer & Jury Coordinator Murtada Elfadl. “This year’s 35th edition of The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival has demonstrated that queer cinema is stronger than ever,” said Hatkoff and McCarthy. “The awards recipients prove the breadth of our community’s stories as well as the highest caliber of cinema.
We are thankful to our esteemed juries and sponsors of these awards for their diligence and expert insights, and congratulate the award recipients and all of our filmmakers at NewFest35.” As a part of NewFest’s Black Filmmakers Initiative, the festival presents three jury-selected filmmakers, who each have short-form work programmed in the festival that features Black LGTBQ+ leads, with the Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Grant.
This juried award goes to filmmakers that show an outstanding quality of capturing the Black LGBTQ+ experience with authenticity, insightful expression, innovation, and auspicious command of the language of cinema.
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