For more information about the film and for updates on future screenings, visit the the "We Came to Sweat" website. on Friday, July 25 at the Walter Reade Theater at 165 W. The screening will take place at 4:30 p.m. The premiere of the film at NewFest will include a question-and-answer session with Kunath and Wortzel.
"I'm really proud of the story," she said. You’ll also find gay scenes in Chelsea, Greenwich Village and Brooklyn. Kunath said she's excited to finally screen the film that took four years, a Kickstarter campaign that raised $26,000 and a lot of labor from volunteers to get off the ground. These days, most of the gay bars and clubs are centered around Hell’s Kitchen. There’s the LGBT community, but then there’s also this very supportive neighborhood,” she said, adding that the bar “was able to break down a lot of barriers.” “The Starlite interesting because it’s really two types of community.
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Those people, she said, include many members of the LGBT community of color in Brooklyn, plus a lot of allies from the neighborhood. A suspect is accused of 'systematically' dousing the floor of a popular LGBTQ bar in Brooklyn before setting it alight is in custody on federal charges. “The film doesn’t have experts that talk about gentrification. “Losing places like this has an impact on the quality of all of our lives, and I think that the gentrification piece is something that people will really have to think about,” Kunath said.
The community’s struggle to save the bar is the main focus of the film, but it will interest anyone who cares about Crown Heights, she said. She and her co-director, Sasha Wortzel, began filming at the Starlite in January of 2010, when the bar’s proprietors received eviction papers from their landlord, who had sold the building. WESTGAY AT WESTWAY: On Tuesday nights, the West Village bar/former strip club is packed with a hip gay crowd for this weekly party hosted by DJ Frankie Sharpe.The partys cover is usually 10. “That’s where so many of their memories have been housed.” “A lot of people called it home,” Kunath said. Open on Bergen Street at Nostrand Avenue from 1962 to 2010, the Starlite Lounge was the “bedrock” of Crown Heights, said Kate Kunath, co-director of “ We Came to Sweat,” a documentary about the bar’s history and its closure that will debut at the NewFest film festival on Friday.
It’s dubbed the wickedest place in New York by local press.