Episodics

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.

Dir. Shaina Feinberg, USA, 2020, 59 mins

Welcome back to the Diner! (Don’t worry if it’s your first time here, you’ll catch on quickly!) Following a hit first season that premiered at Tribeca in 2018, the regulars have returned to the Brooklyn-based eatery for a second helping of more Queer comradery. After the unexpected death of the diner’s owner, Mick, Dee, Karolena, and White Rachel scramble to help the eatery survive in this delightful, women and gender-nonconforming-led BRIC TV series. Stir in a tough new lease-holder (Alysia Reiner, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), a mute chef, and a group of incredibly fun nuns, and you come up with a heartwarming webseries that celebrates life, Queer friendship, and the beauty of Queer spaces in fabulous New York City.

Writer: Shaina Feinberg Cast: Alysia Reiner, Maeve Higgins, Drae Campbell, Mona Chalabi, Karolena Theresa, Lisa Haas, Jude Dry, Donna Wood, Jaqueline Fouasnon

EQUAL

Dir. Stephen Kijak, Kimberly Reed, USA, 2020, 160 mins

This star-studded HBO Max docuseries honors the rebels of yesteryear with never-before-seen archival footage along with stylistic depictions that bring to life the gripping and true backstories of these leaders and unsung heroes. Over the course of the four-part docuseries, viewers will meet a wide range of LGBTQ+ visionaries portrayed by the cast, many of whom identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community. Each part has a distinct and connected telling: part one explores the rise of early organizations, The Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis in Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively; part two chronicles the 20th century trans experience, bookended by the 1966 Compton Cafeteria riots in San Francisco; part three examines the contributions from the Black community on the growing LGBTQ+ civil rights movement; and part four ties in the decades long struggles with the culminated Stonewall uprising-the beginning of the Pride movement. Featuring award-winning LGBTQ stars of stage and screen, including Samira Wiley, Keynon Landsale, Cheyenne Jackson, Hailie Sahar, Theo Germaine, Alexandra Grey, Anthony Rapp, Heather Matarazzo, Shannon Purser, and more!

Cast: Jamie Clayton, Cole Doman, Theo Germaine, Sara Gilbert, Alexandra Grey, Gale Harold, Cheyenne Jackson, Isis King, Keiynan Lonsdale, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow, Heather Matarazzo, Sam Pancake, Shannon Purser, Anne Ramsay, Anthony Rapp, Jai Rodriguez, Hailie Sahar, Scott Turner Schofield, Alex Staggs, Samira Wiley

Dir. Hang Nguyen, USA, 2020, 53 mins

The premiere season of this outrageously fun, style-shifting local series follows young Brooklynite Alex, who, openminded as she may be, has never had an orgasm! Prompted by her sex-positive roommate Dara to enroll in a class that helps explore her sexuality, Alex is taken on a hysterical and surprisingly beautiful journey that forces her to examine her identity as an Asian-American woman. Featuring a full spectrum of Queer characters, a whip smart script from writer/director Hang Nguyen, and a dynamic lead performance from Kathy Huynh-Phan as Alex, SIDEWAYS SMILE will leave you supremely delighted and voraciously clamoring for a second season.

Writer: Hang Nguyen Cast: Kathy Huynh-Phan, Diane Chen, Nikki Lowe, Nicolette Lynch