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@tusk_creative !!! Uh. We WON. Best narrative short at
@tribeca for
@ripe__film…💀🍾🤯🧜♀️🤡
We didn’t consider the possibility of an award. When we got the call we were in Provincetown (where shockingly we also won, and also left before awards). Happy films don’t usually win
We’ve gotten a lot of comments about how lush & vibrant ripe is. I think to people who’ve seen it, the vibrancy seems obvious… but it’s worth acknowledging that it wasn’t. All of us have years of programming that queer stories are tonally, uh, intense. Kerry and I specifically also have lived experience that queerness is met with toleration not celebration, hiding is easy, and coming out fucking sucks and takes forever. So we had to fight ourselves to rewrite the ending we WISH we had, the film we could have used as teens. The validation of winning with a simple story of two girls working to admit their spark is helping us wiggle forward and grow up. Thank you Tribeca.
All that said…we MISSED THE CEREMONY lol but luckily our resident local and EP
@kelleyohara was there to save the day. As Kelley said, team is everything. (She knows— 2-time World Cup winner!!) Her authenticity and excitement for ripe have helped carry us in our hardest / biggest moments- thank you Kelley, and every teammate…
Our angel day 1 boss producer
@freakbrat w/ a heart & mind so big you can’t imagine, as well as the incredibly passionate funny talented trio in Barcelona at
@japonicafilms plus our EP
@juxta_luke who heard this pitch and immediately dedicated support, and thoughtful Spain buddy EP
@kameryn.kyle - and DP
@whoispablogallego come on, have y’all SEEN the light in this thing?!! And of course
@485_rits and
@rainalandolfi who literally jumped off cliffs carrying our weight. See the rest of our brilliant team: https://vimeo.com/860987750
One last thing. I always hear “life imitates art” and am like whatever. But days after shooting the scene where Sophie breaks Gloria’s arm, I fell and broke MY arm. Which tells us that I need to watch my step...but also that perhaps life does imitate art and if we write lesbians some vibrant hopeful endings, they might start coming true