They Kiss

They Kiss

12 min

A queer writer/director pitches her film to a studio exec who keeps demanding her lesbian characters be sexier and less political, cycling through genre after genre — until she finally bargains for the one thing he won't allow: a real kiss.

Directed by Rachael Hastings Adair

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