Paper Dolls

Genre: Period Queer Punk Drama / Coming-of-Age

Setting: Olympia, Washington, 1991

Target Audience: Adults 18-49, fans of queer coming-of-age stories, indie music dramas, feminist punk history, campus politics, and character-driven ensemble dramas

Comps: The Runaways (young women, music, rebellion, and band pressure), Dear White People (campus politics and institutional containment), Bottoms (queer rage and girls turning violence into solidarity)

Logline: In 1991 Olympia, after a freshman reports being assaulted by the local punk scene’s favorite male singer, a furious queer frontwoman turns her zine and all-female band into a campus revolt, but when backlash threatens her girlfriend and tears the band apart, she must learn a movement cannot survive on rage alone.