Happy Pride 2026! π³οΈβπ π€π©Άπ€ππ©·π
For those of you who are new here, I wanted to take a chance to reflect back on what a journey this has been with our project!
It started with an idea at the end of 2022, stemming from my personal experience with ignorance and minimal visibility surrounding asexuality- specifically alloromantic asexuality. We had to do something to try and change that.
By 2023, we had a solid draft of the short. We needed funding, and so I saved up thousands of dollars to create a preliminary educational + interview series that would hopefully draw enough attention to our $15k crowdfunding goal.
Over the span of two weekends, @justinadayprod and I hosted 30+ Zoom interviews with ace people from all over the world. Then, a dozen Los Angeles-local aces joined me and @noura.mov for in-studio interviews. Both these and the Zoom calls resulted in 23 interview videos spanning the topics of coming out, representation, dating, self-love, and intersectionality. Thank you to everyone who participated and shared their stories with us.
Additionally, the studio participants appeared in 17 βFrequently Asked Questionsβ short-form videos we released on common questions, definitions surrounding sexuality & attraction, and violence awareness.
In Pride month of 2023, we launched our crowdfunding campaign and were releasing an interview/FAQ video per day, but only met 17% of our goal. We are so grateful for each and every contribution!
In 2024, we made some hard decisions to rework the script and make it possible to create within a tighter budget + timeline. Even after these cuts, we still didnβt have enough to make it work. I spent 2024 saving up more.
In 2025, we just had to take the dive - ready or not. It felt better to create something now than wait endlessly for the right moment and do nothing in the meantime. We assembled a fantastic cast & crew, made up of incredibly talented and passionate people.
When we finally shot it on November 8th, I felt that familiar joy of creating something that was in my heart for so long. Each cast member effortlessly nailed their part, and the crew was unfathomably efficient! THANK YOU ALL! π
