Gleeks Have Plenty to see at the LGBT Film Festival, Starting With After The Storm
After The Storm: What happens to a real community when natural disaster strikes and the local high school students are separated from families? Not to sound glib, but they put on a show. In this stunning documentary, After the Storm, the playwright and director of the Broadway production of Once On This Island, went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and helped the rebuild a community center and young lived by staging a local production of the show with the teens. This is Glee for real.
Tickets are on sale now for members, and will go on sale for non-members on Monday, May 24th. You can get your tickets at NewFest.org And you can see trailers for many of the films at the NewFest YouTube channel.Broadway Show Queen Alert: Put Gypsy in a blender with Hairspray and you’ve got Leading Ladies.
Leading Ladies: An over the top backstage mother pushes her daughter to be a star — on the ballroom dancing circuit. Her sister fades into the background. The gay boy dance partner brings the “ugly duckling” sister to a gay bar where he dances up a storm with his boyfriend and she discovers she’s a lesbian. With a stage mom straight out of John Waters territory and hot dance numbers, this is one fun movie. The boy is played by last year’s So You Think You Can Dance winner, Benji Schwimmer. Cute, very cute. So this is a lesbian love story with a gay male sidekick and is a movie that both lesbians and gay men will enjoy.
Fruit Fly: From the people who made the indie hit, Colma, Fruit Fly has 19 original songs in a story that follows Bethesda, a young Filipina woman, who like Rachel in Glee, is searching for her birth mother — in San Francisco while living with a house full of gay men. The opening number is also the title of the film, about how she gets dubbed a fag hag and what it means for her.
Singing, Dancing, Waiting: There’s a shorts program that are all musicals! I always love the shorts programs.
Prima Donna: A documentary about Rufus Wainwright putting on his opera. If you’re a fan, this is a must see.
The Topp Twins – Untouchable Girls: This is THE LESBIAN FILM EVERY GAY MAN WANTS TO SEE! Imagine if Dolly Parton had children with Lily Tomlin, and those children would be the lesbian twin singing sister act from New Zealand, the Topp Twins. They do drag king character sketch comedy. Country singing. And yodeling. Yep, yodeling that you just have to hear. Trust me on this. Oh, and after the film, the Topp Twins will be there in live performance. This is an event. And you won’t want to miss it.
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