SCREENING NOW
THE YOUNG KING
WRITER-DIRECTOR
Larin Sullivan
STARRING
Frances Orr
LOGLINE
A drag king gets ready to meet daddy.
DIRECTOR Bio - LARIN SULLIVAN
Larin Sullivan is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts. Larin launched her directing career in Australia, where she was selected to direct the final installment of Matchbox Pictures’ award-winning documentary series, ANATOMY: SOUL, for ABC, about sustainable burial garment designer Pia Interlandi. Over the past five years, Larin has directed branded content and commercials for Samsung, Nestle, Out Magazine and Lexus, under her production company banner Trinket Films. Larin began her film and TV career as a programming staffer at the Sundance Film Festival, and in the writer’s room of THE L WORD. Her three short films, DIVE, EXPOSURE, and THE JOB, have collectively played over thirty international film festivals, and have won several awards. Larin is currently in development on her drag king feature project, THE YOUNG KING, which she wrote and will direct in 2022.
SCREENINGS
Outfest, Pioneertown Film Festival, NewFest NYC
STILL LIFE
writer-Director
Diana Chire
LOGLINE
Still Life depicts recreations of famous renaissance paintings featuring black women whose names were lost to history.
DIRECTOR BI0 - Diana CHIRE
Diana Chire is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. Born in Djibouti, raised in London, Diana works in a variety of traditional and non-traditional media (performance, photo-text collage, video installation, sculpture among them). Her work has been featured in galleries from New York to Berlin and profiled in “W”, “I-D”, “Dazed and Confused”. Her own publication, “She-Zine” features cutting-edge contributions from leading female artists. Her first award-winning short film, A LIVING SCULPTURE was shot in London and had a successful international festival run, winning multiple awards.
SCREENINGS
Toronto Black Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Poppy Jasper International Film Festival
BEAST UNDER THE BED
STUDIO
Crypt TV
writeR
T.J. Payne
Director
Keola Racela
STARRING
Angeleck Richardson, Ellah Rae Linaman-Smith, Jeffery Tendall, Breayre Taylor, Kerstin Porter, and Kamy Bruder.
LOGLINE
A broken family struggles to revive their bond. It's the only way to keep the monster at bay.
SCREENINGS
Beast Under The Bed is a 2020 short horror film written by T.J. Payne, directed by Keola Racela, and released digitally by Crypt TV on January 31st, 2020.