GLOBAL EPISODIC SHOWCASE Fall in love with your new favorite, binge-worthy series via our Global Episodic Showcase! These global pilots--from NYC all the way to Nigeria-showcase the best of upcoming queer talent in the form of web series, Television series, and docu-series. This is your chance to hit the ground running and humblebrag to your friends that you discovered these bingeworthy shows before anyone else!
QUEENS
Dir. Pat Mills, Canada, 2020, 10 mins QUEENS is a comedy-mystery following an eclectic cast of Toronto drag queens leading up to the night of the Miss Church Street pageant. Each episode focuses on a particular queen whose preparation for the pageant is sabotaged in a strange and unfortunate way. Who among them is the saboteur?
DECEASED ONES
Dir. Kate Hopkins, USA, 2019, 14 mins When two friends, Max and Fiona, get involved in the niche service of role playing the dead, they're forced to help heal grieving strangers through a surreal game of make believe, while confronting deeply buried emotional traumas arising within themselves.
INQUEERI
Dir. Alexandra Rose, USA, 2019, 5 mins This webseries follows the lives of two queer college kids, Teddy and James, as they explore finding their identities in a world of liberal zombies and normative nancies.
UNHINGED
Dir. Stephanie Leschek, USA, 2019, 5 mins During their game night, a couple fights about not fighting in front of their friends.
THE OTHERSIDE
Dir. Adesua Okosun, Nigeria/Côte d'Ivoire/USA, 2019, 19 mins This episode, THE ALTERNATIVE, follows three people from the LGBTQ community — a queer female, a transgender male, and a transgender female — living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Each character takes us into their world and show us how they are trying to change the narrative of their community in West Africa.
BORED
Dir. Georgia Oakley, UK, 2019, 12 mins Jamie and Eve are best friends who've always shared everything. After drowning their post-Brexit sorrows at a party, they really do end up sharing everything. In the sober light of day, will things ever be the same again?
HIDDEN CANYONS
Dir. Brant Rotnem, Fawzia Mirza, USA, 2020, 26 mins Seven LGBTQ+ inhabitants of a beachside hamlet navigate infidelity, open relationships, family planning, breakups, race issues, and gender identity.
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