HETERO
SATURDAY, OCT 23, 2:30 PM, MoPOP (buy a in person film ticket, and get $5 off admission to *MoPOP for the day —need to book in advance museum discount ticket)
& VIRTUAL (OCT 14–24)
SPONSORED BY:
CO-PRESENT WITH:
Lambert House
KJ Kieras & Bentley Eldridge; 2021; USA; 60 min.
Five friends—Quinn, Sarai, Zel, Mickey, and Cohen—embark on a mission to save their high school’s gay-straight alliance following their principal’s orders to diversify the group by “recruiting” straight students. To achieve this quixotic aim of straight-washing their GSA, each of the five becomes the “gay best friend” of select peers while also riding the roller coaster of being queer in high school, as they fall in love, form their chosen family, come out, and discover pride within themselves. Third Charm, a youth-run Pacific Northwest production company based in Seattle, created this first season of HETERO, and the result crackles with energy.
We’ll be joined after the screening for a special Q&A with filmmakers KJ Kieras and Bentley Eldridge, as well as select members of the cast and crew.
CONTENT WARNINGS: NO CONTENT WARNING