Newfest @ 20.

"Newfest, now in its 20th year of celebrating LGBT film, is geared to our motley gay community with painstaking regard, and one of its prevailing impressions this year is that Michael Musto has become as ubiquitous as the rainbow flag," writes Ed Gonzalez. "The Voice columnist appears in no less than three festival pop docs, shooting the shit about bisexuality in America in Bi the Way, gabbing about porn legend Jack Wrangler in Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, and reminiscing with John Waters and Debbie Harry about one of my favorite old haunts in SqueezeBox! Will someone - anyone - please give this man a film to call his own?"

Meantime, at indieWIRE, NewFest is interviewing filmmakers with works lined up. The fest opens today and runs through June 15.

Update, 6/7: Artistic director Basil Tsiokos speaks in an audio slide show for the New York Times.

Posted by dwhudson at June 5, 2008 1:56 AM