THE SCRIPT
Blending personal interviews with dramatized genre recreations, THE SCRIPT explores the troubled relationship between trans communities and medical providers in healthcare settings. With a playful approach toward experimentation, the film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.
BRIT FRYER (director, he/him) is an award-winning queer and trans filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His film, CARO COMES OUT, premiered on HBOMax after winning the 2021 Knight Made in MIA Award at the Miami International Film Festival.His other films include ACROSS, BEYOND, AND OVER, I-57, and TRANS·IENCE. He also works as a producer, most recently of Lydia Cornett’s BUG FARM and Crystal Kayiza’s REST STOP, which was an official selection of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. He is grateful to have shown at Indie Grits, NewFest, Outfest, Inside Out, MIX NYC, Blackstar Film Festival, and more. Brit and his work have been supported by the Sundance Ignite Fellowship, Creative Culture, Chicken and Egg, GLAAD's Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative, and HBO / Gotham's Documentary Development Initiative.
NOAH SCHAMUS (director, they/them) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker of documentary and narrative films. Their first feature “Summer Solstice” had its World Premiere at Provincetown Film Festival in June 2023. The film was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program grant, was included in the 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab as a Notable Writer, and was the winner of the Platige Image Award at Us in Progress at the American Film Festival in November 2022. Their short films have been presented at film festivals including BFI Flare, Outfest, Inside Out, NewFest, Indie Memphis, Maryland Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival (where their short film, “Chemistry of Mood” garnered an Honorable Mention for Best Performance by Naian Gonzalez Norvind). “Across, Beyond, and Over,” co-directed with Brit Fryer, was featured on NoBudge and is a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Actors
LA Head
Yên Sen
Interviewees
K.J. Rawson
Ryder Cermola
August Enzer
Nyss Fairchild
Sonia Steinmann
Director of Photography
Pete Quandt
Editors
Viridiana Lieberman
Grace Mendenhall
Production Designer
Joyce Lai
Composer
Lydia Cornett
Sound Recordists
Ben Eckersley
Rider Laskin
Gaffer
Jack Davis
Grip
Gio Alfonzetti
Camera Operators
Dan Brauchli
César Martinez
Rikki Porter
Assistant Camera and DIT
Sam McCoy
Finishing Artist
Juan Salvo
Supervising Sound Editor / Re-recording Mixer
Filipe Messeder
