The Thomas Edison Film Festival and Hoboken Historical Museum warmly invite you to a very special Pride celebration.

TEFF and HHM are proud to be hosting a film festival on Saturday, June 17 in partnership with the podcast hosts of Remakes, Reboots & Revivals, to honor Pride Month. Remakes, Reboots & Revivals is a podcast created by Rolando Nieves and Nicole Pometti, who identify as queer, Latinx filmmakers.

The evening at the Hoboken Historical Museum kicks off with a reception at 6:30pm. At 7:00pm, hosts Rolando and Nicole will present a live intro to selected cutting-edge documentary shorts, Leo & Nymphia and Inside the Beauty Bubble, from the TEFF’s 2023 collection. After the screening, they will return to host a live-recorded talk back and discussion with the audience, which will be available on their podcast through June 2023.

Directed by Hsin-An Pan, Leo & Nymphia is a documentary that focuses on Cao Liou (Leo), a 25-year-old drag queen known as “Nymphia.”

Directed by Cheryl Bookout and Cheri Gaulke, Inside the Beauty Bubble is a documentary film about a renowned collector of hair artifacts fighting to keep his desert dreams alive.

We are excited to see you at the Museum for this event!

About the TEFF:

Since 1981, the mission of the Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) has been to promote innovation in the art of the moving image, and the films that are the centerpiece of the festival honor Edison’s vision. Edison’s films did for the eye what his phonograph did for the ear. He made 75, twenty-second-long films in his West Orange studio. His earliest films presented magic shows, plays, vaudeville shows with dancers and strongmen, cowboys, and boxing matches.

The festival’s relationship to Thomas Edison’s invention of the motion picture camera and the kinetoscope and his experimentation with the short film is an essential part of our mission. Shorts are the essence of the festival – not a sidebar to feature films. TEFF is not a conventional destination film festival, or a single city festival, or a gala driven event. It is a socially conscious, modern, fiercely independent traveling showcase for shorts, reaching out to diverse audiences with provocative, timely, edgy and compelling new works by both accomplished and emerging filmmakers. 

We celebrate films which address the environment, race and class, immigration, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities and issues of social justice. The films we celebrate are artistic, empathetic and engaging works which simultaneously teach and entertain.

To learn more about the Thomas Edison Film Festival and the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, visit www.TEFilmFest.org, Jane Steuerwald, Executive Director, +1 201.856.6565, Jane@TEFilmFestival.org.