Pride: A Celebration Of Queer Stories

June 1–26, 2023
This June, the JBFC celebrates LGBTQ+ stories with a selection of one-off screenings and events. In partnership with The LOFT, we are offering free, limited supply of tickets to enjoy these INCREDIBLE cinematic offerings!

Discover the black queer origins of rock n’ roll in Little Richard: I Am Everything, celebrate trans lives with a special Community Matters, and join George Mackay, Bill Nighy, and Imelda Staunton in the feel-good true story of British LGBT activists, Pride.

Plus relive iconic moments from queer cinema history with The Watermelon Woman & Funeral Parade of Roses.

June 14th Mutt (with shorts)

7:00pm Screening (with shorts) Theater 1

8:30pm Q&A (with director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz ) Theater 1

9:00pm Cocktail Reception Gallery

Free for Members

This event will include a screening of two short films from Juan Barquin (8 mins in total)

TOTAL RUNTIME including Shorts and feature: 95m (Runtime is approximate).

Special Pride Preview screening of Mutt - which took Sundance and Berlinale by storm!

Over the course of 24 breathless hours in New York City, twentysomething trans guy Feña (newcomer Lío Mehiel, winner of a Special Jury Award at Sundance for their performance) must contend with an onslaught of aggravations, surprise encounters, and emotional choices. Laundromats, subway turnstiles, and airport transfers are the hectic background to this emotional drama that overlaps past, present, and future.

Mutt earns its most difficult discussions through its tenderness toward each character’s struggle with the complexity of trans life, Latinx life in America, and human life at large.

Followed by a reception in the Jane Peck Gallery.

Moderator Abbey White

Guest Speaker Vuk Lungulov-Klotz

Guest Bio -

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz is a Chilean-Serbian filmmaker raised between Chile, New York City, and Serbia. He is an alum of the Sundance Institute Labs, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Ryan Murphy HALF Initiative Program. As a transgender storyteller he hopes to expand queer narratives. His work focuses on intimate moments we often miss if we're not looking. His debut feature film, Mutt, premiered at Sundance 2023 and will be released in August.

Abbey White is an associate editor and news writer for The Hollywood Reporter’s digital team, where they also report, edit and web produce features spanning film, TV, awards, theater, animation, children's & family, inclusion and more. A Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY alum, they’ve been recognized as a 2022 Curve Emerging Journalist, ASME Awards finalist, National A&E Journalism Awards winner and GLAAD Media Award nominee, among other honors.

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Limited Free Tickets are Available (limit 1 per registrant)

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