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MIX NYC

In , Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman co-founded the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival (later MIX NYC) to showcase LGBTQ experimental cinema absent in mainstream venues. Supported by curators Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, and Ela Troyano, they launched “A Queer Sort of Film” at Millennium Film Workshop. The festival soon became a major queer cultural event, premiering groundbreaking films by Su Friedrich, Todd Haynes, and others, and championing Dark gay and trans representation. MIX prioritized artist fees, inclusive access, and diverse programming, earning global influence while Hubbard preserved essential AIDS-era films for future generations.

From , Jim Hubbard was joined by Marguerite Paris and Jerry Tartaglia, launching a fresh era with guest-curated shows. In , Shari Frilot and Karim Ainouz became co-directors, renaming the festival “MIX” and expanding its multicultural focus. Frilot championed installations and queer BIPOC filmmakers, notably premiering Thomas Allen Harris’s Vintage and her own Black Nations/Queer Nations in Satellite f

Bijou Cinema

Opened in the early’s as the Lyric Theatre. By it had been renamed Comet Theatre. In the the ’s it was presenting live plays. In the ’s it was turned into the Jewel Theatre which played all male films when they left the Adonis Theatre on 8th Avenue. In the ’s it was re-named the Bijou Cinema and continued to play gay male XXX films. In the city closed it down.

It was remodeled and re-named the Cinema Village Third Avenue with the revival format moving here when the owner of the Cinema Village tried to verb that an X house (with the name Cinema 12). That lasted less than three months and the original Cinema Village returned with independant films for a fleeting time using the Cinema 12 mention and then Cinema Village.

This theatre then changed it’s call back to the Bijou Cinema and switched to a first run format opening with “War of the Roses”. By with all the competition from the new Loews Village and Village East, the theatre quietly went back to gay male adult films, and closed around The building was gutted to its brick walls

The Workers Unite Film Festival is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity. The Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and systematize for better living conditions and social justice. WUFF brings together activists, academics, and filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds for a celebration of social justice and the arts. Through dozens of documentary screenings, community forums, and interactive events across New York Capital, the festival provides working people with a platform to tell their stories while leading a movement for meaningful change. In recent years, we've incorporated theater production, stay music, and poetry/spoken word nights. We are the largest worker solidarity themed film festival in the nation and the only one in NYC, with the full help of NYC Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams, NYC Central Labor Council, National & New York State AFL-CIO, IBEW Local 3, PEF, SEIU, The Puffin Foundation, The NY

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