Electric Homies


In a near-future barrio, a Two-Spirit social worker fights to preserve community and culture as thousands in their neighborhood upload to a mysterious digital utopia.

  • Roberto Fatal
    Writer
    Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs in Their Limpias?, Chaac and Yum, Fluid Bound
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    sci-fi, drama, latino, latinx, lgbtq, queer, indigenous, latina
  • Number of Pages:
    99
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • GLAAD & The Black List 2022 best Un-produced scripts List
    los angeles
    April 20, 2022
    Best un-produced script list, 2022
  • SF Film Rainin screenwriting grant
    San francisco
    February 1, 2024
    Ranin screenwriting grant
Writer Biography - Roberto Fatal

Roberto Fatal [they/them/ellos] is a Meztize Chicana filmmaker and storyteller. They come from Rarámuri, Genízaro, and Spanish ancestry. Their Queer, gender fluid, Mestize/Mixed identity informs the sci-fi, films they make. Their work centers on humans who sit at the intersections of time, space and culture. From this unique vantage point, these characters can bridge divides, see all sides, find new paths forward and recall multiple histories long forgotten. The mixed people of Fatal’s stories can connect us deeply to an undercurrent of humanity that we often overlook in a world that is increasingly divided. Survival, intersectional identity, perseverance, love, empathy, community, connection and creation are at the heart of their characters and films. Fatal is a Sundance Film Institute Native Film Lab Fellow Alum and an Imagine Native Director's Lab feature film fellow alum. Their debut feature script, ELECTRIC HOMIES, was selected by GLAAD x The Black List as one of the best unproduced screenplays of 2022 and was awarded the 2023 SFFILM Rainin Screenwriting Grant.

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