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Pink & Blue

After a surprise first-time pregnancy, a Trans couple of color wrestles with how the new baby will affect their relationship and how to raise a child in a binary world.

  • Kaydx Being
    Writer
  • Carmen LoBue
    Director
  • Silas Howard
    Producer
  • Jonathan Starch
    Producer
  • Leslye Headland
    Producer
  • Rebecca Henderson
    Producer
  • Vanessa Haroutunian
    Producer
  • Kaydx Being
    Key Cast
    "Crea"
  • Jojo Brown
    Key Cast
    "Armani"
  • April Maxey
    Director of Photography
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Romance
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 3 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 22, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival
  • BlackStar Film Festival
    Philadelphia, PA
    August 4, 2021
  • BronzeLens Film Festival
  • Out on Film Atlanta LGBTQ Film Festival
  • Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival

    May 27, 2021
    Canadian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Asian American International Film Festival
  • Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
  • WickedQueer: Boston LGBTQ+ Film Festival
    Virtual
    April 8, 2021
    World Premiere
    Best in Show/Audience Award 2021
  • Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival

    May 6, 2021
    West Coast Premiere
    Best Narrative Short
  • KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival

    India
    August 19, 2021
    Best International Narrative Short - Nominee
  • LGBT Toronto Film Festival

    August 1, 2019
    Best Short Screenplay
  • OutSouth Queer Film Festival
    Durham, NC
    August 13, 2021
  • Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
  • The TIDE Film Festival
  • Imagine This Women's International Film Festival
  • Atlanta Black Pride Film Festival
  • Queer Screen Film Festival
  • Grrl Haus Cinema
Director Biography - Carmen LoBue

Carmen LoBue (they/them) is a Queer Non-Binary Afro-Filipinx American Filmmaker with a passion for social activism that is expressed through their work as a creator. Carmen’s early recognition includes Paper Magazine's "Paper Predictions: 100 people taking over 2019" and the Disruptor Foundation (Craig Hatkoff) and The Legacy Lab’s 2018 New Legacy Maker Honoree. LoBue directed Season One of the dramedy web series Cheer Up Charlie (Hollyshorts and Urbanworld Film Festival ‘19)
Their work on Cheer Up Charlie also earned them a nomination for Best Director at TOWEBFEST in 2019. Other credits include Splinters, featured in the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Their play, Will You...Hold My Hair Back? Is currently featured in Pride Plays 2020 at The Rattlestick Theatre (off broadway). Carmen wrote and directed sci-fi short film O, Ryan Executive Produced by Jennifer Esposito (A Rebellious Act). O, Ryan is a queer dystopian psychological thriller addressing the opioid epidemic and Black mental health in America. LoBue is currently directing a VR sci-fi hip hop battle immersive as part of a CRUX’s Black Imagination series at Mozfest. LoBue is a member of The Alliance of Women Directors. They are represented by The Gersh Agency. @carmenlobue

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Director Statement

This film is important because it provides us with an intimate look at conscious parenting through the lens of a Trans couple. It is beautiful to see a couple face the challenge of parenthood. They are interrogating their own levels of awareness, personal beliefs, and examining their limitations along the way. And they consciously do so for the love of their first-born child. I am especially interested in seeing an interracial couple who each identify differently, face the challenge of parenting together.

Much like the characters in this film, as a Queer Non-Binary Afro-Pilipinx human my personal journey to find liberation includes re-parenting myself as an adult in a heteronormative, patriarchal, oppressive society. I must consciously decolonize my mind. I believe that these characters have been on a similar journey of finding peace and liberation before this child was conceived.

I believe that a story like this is universal. It speaks to the primal need to identify ourselves and to find liberation in the process of "naming" yourself on your own terms. It speaks to the collective's conscious need to respect and honor those who are different than you as well as the need to hold space for others to be their full selves from a space of love. The journey happening in this film from the perspective of a couple seeking to bring new life in the world is akin to the journey I hope to see in the world at large.