NewFest, New York’s LGBT Film Festival has hooked up with the Faigele Film Festival, New York’s Jewish LGBTQ Film Festival: presenting Gay Days and The So-Called Movie.
A Movie About A Gay Hip Hop Cowboy Klezmer DJ Video Artist. Say Nu?
The NewFest program describes Josh Dolgin, the subject of the documentary "The So-Called Movie" as the love child of Woody Allen and Lil Wayne. Uh huh. Okay. Well, What I can say is that Dolgin is one very interesting character whose passion for music of all kinds is infectious, and whose beats just make me happy. Makes me want to get up and dance.
Along with Gay Days, a documentary about the lgbt movement in Israel, this NewFest trek uptown represents a move to recognize the fact that the lgbt community is made up of many communities around the city. So on June 8th, NewFest will be at the Jewish Community Center on the Upper West Side.
The night before, on June 7th, NewFest will be at Harlem Stages showing Children of God, a high-tension romance that takes places in the midst of a homophobic crackdown in the Bahamas. Complete with a right-wing preacher on the down-low, this film captures the claustrophobia of life in a society where shame, secrecy and the threat of violence are always present.
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