The First Time Club

Gabriella, a courageous and tough New York teenager. She witnesses the killing of her father, a beloved teacher at her high school, who tries to help a student being bullied. Trying to recover from their grief, Gabriella and her mother move to Florida where Gabriella enrolls in a new school. But there is no escaping the cause of her heartbreak as she sees a boy being relentlessly bullied in the lunchroom. Determined to survive lunch, Gabriella must find a way to stop the bullies, even if it means standing up to the most violent boy in school.

In a post-pandemic world, a grieving young widow struggling with her own self-destruction, fights to save people as part of a crisis response team. Embedded with the fire department, she is battling the men who don't want her there, the clients who fight her tooth and nail, and her own wounded psyche. She wants to save the world, if the job doesn't kill her first.

A short film about a group of GLBTQ friends that explores life, love, relationships in a world where being in love, can mean risking it all.