The 14th annual New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival will open with Margaret Cho's latest performance film The Notorious C.H.O. from Wellspring Media and close with Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu from Strand Releasing.

The event, which takes place June 6-16, also hands out annual film-maker awards decided by the audience and juries consisting of New York-based journalists and professionals. They will be handed out at the closing night event. Winners are also announced for the Vito Russo Award for a promising New York-based film project and the Peter S Reed Achievement Award for an established body of work.

The Notorious C.H.O. opens theatrically in the US on July 4, 2002, exactly one year after the performance in Seattle was recorded. It is the follow-up to Cho's hit performance movie I'm The One That I Want which grossed over $1.3m in North America.

Lan Yu, which screened at the Cannes and Toronto film festivals last year and Sundance this year, is a love story between two men from different social backgrounds in Beijing over the course of nine years.

Director of the festival is Basil Tsiokos.