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The festival’s in-person premieres will take place at The SVA Theatre and The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan, and Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Prospect Park and The Brooklyn Academy of Music. Centerpiece screenings during the fest include Rebecca Hall’s Passing, Potato Dreams of America, Invisible: Gay Women In Southern Music and A Distant Place. The fest, which will feature in-person and virtual programming, will run through October 26 and close with Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Sundance Grand Prize winner Flee from Neon. The film hails from Jesse Moss, whose most recent doc was the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ film Boys State. The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival has set its lineup for its 33rd edition, with Amazon’s Pete Buttegieg documentary Mayor Pete set as the opening-night film October 15 in its East Coast premiere.
NewFest Announces Full Lineup For The Second Annual 'NewFest Pride' Summer Film Series
