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Film Festival Selections
2024 Official Selections
LA Film Festival (IFS)
June 11-20
Waco Indie Film Festival
July 19-21
Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival
Academy Award Qualifying Film Festival
August 6-12
Sidewalk Film Festival
August 19-25
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
September 11-22
Tacoma Film Festival
October 10-13
Nottingham Film Festival
Oct 11-13
Micheaux Film Festival
October 21-27
Festival Screenings & Awards
Los Angeles Film Festival (IFS)
Los Angeles Film Festival (IFS)
Los Angeles Film Festival (IFS)
Winner! Best LGBTQ Short Film
June 15, 2024 Regal Cinema Downtown
Waco Independent Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival (IFS)
Los Angeles Film Festival (IFS)
Winner! Bixby Elliot- Comedic Actor
July 19, 2024 The Cultivate 7Twelve Theatre 8pm
Nominee Best Comedic Short Film
Nominee Bixby Elliot- Screenplay
Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival (IFS)
Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival
Grand Prize Winner! Best LGBTQ Film
Academy Qualifying Film Festival
August 6-14 Providence, Rhode Island
Sidewalk Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival
August 19-25
Screens: Shout LGBTQ + Narrative
ASFA Recital Hall
August 25 at 12:30pm -2:15pm
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
September 11-22
Screens at International Village
Theatre 9
September 20 at 3pm
Tacoma Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
October 10-13
Pride Shorts
October 12 at 9:15 pm
Nottingham Film Festival
Nottingham Film Festival
Nottingham Film Festival
Oct 11-13
Saturday Oct 12
In the Queer Short Films Block at 3pm
Micheaux Film Festival
Nottingham Film Festival
Nottingham Film Festival
October 21-27
Screening block: Family Matters
Saturday October 26th at 1:40 pm
Team Sponge
OG Sponges
Director/Producer: Michele Noble : www.michelenoble.com
Writer/Producer/Actor: Bixby Elliot: www.bixbyelliot.com
Actor: Alexander Lambie
supporting cast:
Danielle Frimer, Jesse Carey-Chan,
Mark Sedgwick, Chelsea Williams, Charley Mitcherson
Eugene Davis, and Donna Rodgers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32499948/
Production Team
Associate Producer: Maddie Downes
Director of Photography: Peter Westervelt
Production Designer: Paul Erik Davis
Gaffer: Joe Albino
Key Grip: Emily Walowski
Production Sound Mixer: Ray Suthinithet
Set Dresser: Deanna Newman
1st Camera Assistant: Josh Reyes
2nd Camera Assistant: Stephanie Guzman
Make Up & Hair: Daedre Kaehler
Script Supervisor: Laurisha Yniguez
Key Production Assistants: Hisheen Fuerte, Chelsea Williams
Post-Production Team
Film Editor: Travis Rust
Music Supervisor: Farnell Newton
Original Score: Marty Axelrod
Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Frondelli
Colorist: Stephen Latty @ Bunte Farben
Mini Bios
Director Producer Michele Noble
Writer Producer Actor Bixby Elliot
Writer Producer Actor Bixby Elliot
Michele Noble (she, her) is an Emmy® nominated filmmaker who combines the eye of a documentarian with the heart of a social justice activist and the lyricism of a storyteller. She works as a film director, screenwriter and indie producer telling stories of people who are typically on the edges of the frame and aims to bring those stories
Michele Noble (she, her) is an Emmy® nominated filmmaker who combines the eye of a documentarian with the heart of a social justice activist and the lyricism of a storyteller. She works as a film director, screenwriter and indie producer telling stories of people who are typically on the edges of the frame and aims to bring those stories to the center.
In 2021, Michele won an Emmy® nomination for her powerful documentary, Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock (2020) which has been selected at over 40 film festivals worldwide garnering 21 Jury awards. During the filming at Standing Rock, she joined on the frontlines as an ally in solidarity with the Native Nations peaceful resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). While still at University of Southern California film school, Michele directed Runaway Dreams, a gritty indie feature film which won honors at the Deauville Film Festival in France and was distributed by Sony Pictures. She went on to direct, produce and write the politically charged experimental narrative film, the Revolution, with the stellar cast of Kathryn Erbe (Stir of Echoes), Adam Rothenberg (Ozark), Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter), Gale Harold (Queer as Folk) and Cutiss Cook (The Sopranos). In 2013, she produced and directed the award winning feature documentary with music, Journey 4 Artists, depicting the lives and world music of peace activists: actor/folk singer, Theodore Bikel, Bosnian musician,
Merima Ključo, Yiddish singer, Shura Lipovsky
and pianist/conductor, Tamara Brooks. The film illustrates how the power of music can heal histories of war and genocide between cultures. Michele's work often centers around Social Justice. Currently, she is developing projects as a writer, director and producer for TV and film.
Michele also keeps involved in theatre as a member of the award winning New York theatre company, Rising Phoenix Repertory and has strong ties in the artistic community in Europe as a longtime member of the Groucho Club in London. She is a member of the Writers Guild, and the Directors Guild of America and the Television Academy.
Writer Producer Actor Bixby Elliot
Writer Producer Actor Bixby Elliot
Writer Producer Actor Bixby Elliot
Bixby Elliot is a queer writer (for tv, film and theater) from New York City and a member of the 2024/2025 Class of NBC/Universal’s TV Writing Program. An award-winning playwright, Bixby’s plays have been produced in New York, London, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Edinburgh and more. His play I LOVE YOU ST. PETERSBURG! won the Samuel French
Bixby Elliot is a queer writer (for tv, film and theater) from New York City and a member of the 2024/2025 Class of NBC/Universal’s TV Writing Program. An award-winning playwright, Bixby’s plays have been produced in New York, London, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Edinburgh and more. His play I LOVE YOU ST. PETERSBURG! won the Samuel French OOB Festival and was published in 2020. He is the winner of the 2019 Carlos Anoni Italian Award for Best Comedic Play in English and was a finalist for the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Conference. TimeOut Chicago selected Bixby’s play ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A FAGGOT as one of the “Top 10 Plays ” and it was Jeff Award Nominated. The New Yorker Magazine wrote that Bixby’s play SOMMERFUGL, directed by Stephen Brackett (Tony Nominated director of STRANGE LOOP and Broadway’s BE MORE CHILL) and starring Wayne Wilcox (GILMORE GIRLS), “conjured the spirit of Christopher Isherwood, both in its vivid evocation of Europe between the wars and in its characters’ bittersweet yearning for the fullness of life.” His play BLUEPRINT was produced by Tony Award winning producer Arielle Tepper Madover and starred Emmy winner Peter Strauss. GIRL YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE (inspired by the rise and fall of the pop/rock duo Milli Vanilli) was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Conference, semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and was produced in Chicago and Seattle. Bixby’s short film AQUAMARINE has been in over 20 festivals and won multiple awards including; Best Short, Best, Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Actress and more. Bixby’s screenplay HAPPY, NOW was a finalist for the Sundance Writers Lab and a finalist a Mammoth Lakes Film Festival. He shot his first feature length film, AIN’T IT THOUGH in May of 2022 (currently in post-production). AIN’T IT THOUGH recently won the Best Feature Screenplay Award at the New Renaissance Festival in Amsterdam. “You’ve Got Types” Bixby’s short film script was selected as “Best Voice” for the Script Summit Screenplay Competition in 2021.
Bixby has developed projects for television; HIGH FASHION previously in development with Jennifer Lopez Entertainment and THE GRID previously in developmental talks at PBS. He is currently working on several original pilots; Weeki Wachee, Dreams Come True, After These Messages, Love Mary Todd, Guncles (with Daniel Marshall), Tilting (with Bernardo Cubria), Audacity (with Erin Mallon) and several projects with Melanie Maras (Next Door, Cancelled and The Breakup Tour). Melanie and Bixby are currently partnering with Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios on a new 1/2 comedy for television.
Bixby is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University and co-curator of The Brooklyn Generator (a new play generation project) and founder of TH/TW Project. Bixby is developing new works for theater, film and television.
Actor Alexander Lambie
Writer Producer Actor Bixby Elliot
Actor Alexander Lambie
Alexander Lambie (he, him) is an artist from Intervale Avenue in the Bronx whose work is primarily focused on drawing attention to marginalized people and new play development. He is a member of Middle Voice Theater Company, an alumnus of Atlantic Acting School as well as The MCC Youth Company. He is also known as Gina Cakestand, a drag p
Alexander Lambie (he, him) is an artist from Intervale Avenue in the Bronx whose work is primarily focused on drawing attention to marginalized people and new play development. He is a member of Middle Voice Theater Company, an alumnus of Atlantic Acting School as well as The MCC Youth Company. He is also known as Gina Cakestand, a drag persona living in the kitchen on the intersection of anime and the black experience. Works include: Get Cooking With Gina (BAAD), Gina’s Holiday Lasagna (BAAD), The Enclave, and dir. Victor Cervantes (Rattlestick), Orpheus, and the Berkshires, dir. Laura Savia, Accidents Waiting to Happen, dir. Padric Lilis (Stable Cable) and The Parlour, dir. Daniella Heart.
During his time in residence at Hi-ARTS, Alexander will continue the development of a one-person show performed through his drag persona Gina Cakestand. So Wittiness!, Gina's trial of the soul as she struggles (elegantly, stylishly, lithely, and majestically) to discover not who she is, but why she would ever give in to the temptation to be anything BUT who she is. Alexander Lambie explains: “I’m interested in the ways in which gender expression and roles interact with survival. The biggest heartbreaks I have known have been caused by seeing men I grew up with get squashed by the ideology of the “masculine male” and become someone that I never expected them to be happy with. With all the alternative expressions of manhood embraced in pop culture, there is still an insidious adherence to the stoic, emotionally inept, macho bro in my everyday networks. I’m dedicated to making art that attempts to creatively address that disconnect between the way we culturally want to understand expressions of manhood and what we have internalized to expect from masculine-presenting people.”