16 min, 2025
In the midst of ACT UP’s heated demonstration on the NIH campus, a young gay filmmaker desperately scrambles to deliver a message to the protest's target: Dr. Anthony Fauci.
**Premiering on PBS SoCal and the PBS app : October 22, 2026**
AWARDS:
- Sloan Foundation Production Grant
- USC Faculty Award - Best Producing
- Audience Award for Best Short - Wicked Queer Film Festival
- Best LGBTQ+ Short - Aladerri Film Festival
FESTIVALS:
- Leeds International Film Festival
- NewFest
- Film Independent Sloan Summit
- ImageOut Rochester LGBTQ+ Film Festival
- NÒT Film Festival
- Wicked Queer Film Festival
- Reeling Chicago LGBTQ+ Film Festival
- OutFilm CT LGBTQ+ Film Festival
- OutSouth LGBTQ+ Film Festival
- Aladerri International Film Festival
- March On! Festival
- ReelPride Fresno LGBTQ+ Festival
- aGLIFF / PRISM Film Festival
- Rehoboth Beach Pride Film Festival
- Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival
PRESS:
writer/director: Trace Pope
producers: Kate Hanson, Tola Omilana
cast: Henry Storrs, Elliot Jones, Christine Kellogg-Darrin, Lucas Denies, Shane Campayne, Donato Fatuesi
associate producers: Ben Ephraim, Gabriella Diaz, Ini Ishola, Melanie An, Keith Berlanga, Olivia Brancato, Daniel Chimes, Caroline McDonald, Angelo Pitsillis
dp: Devon Johns
editor: Eliza Loyola, Trace Pope
sound: Eli Staub
production design: LEXI, Kalina Kirkbride
costume design: Bettie Sadauska
music: Nicolette Norgaard
casting: Brent Hagata, CSA
watch trailer:
p