Filmmaker Statement

We are living in a dating dystopia. And if things weren’t bad enough before social media and reality tv, now we have a whole new pressure to make every first date a perfectly distilled impression of who you really are into one short lunch. That pressure started to mount on my friend Tommy Dickie, who finally burst when he wrote a short play that we decided to make into a hilarious comedy short. We also felt a desire not to make this a dramatic LGBTQ coming-out piece, but to make a gay meet-cute story that allows space for queer characters without having to stand up and say “pay attention to me!” Our two leads are queer actors playing queer characters, and that’s just part of the world we live in now and we can have fun with that without having to make a political statement. Tommy and I both came from a theater background and both attended the prestigious National Theater School in Connecticut, so we love a good breaking-the-fourth-wall moment. And I have done a fair amount of work in