Gay Short Films & Web Series

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had three episodes of The Three Bits, featuring young gay man Henry and his rommate, including their attempt to organise an orgy. The plan with the series was always that it would be split between three members of the Bits family, so after Henry’s adventures, we now move on to Roman.

She is a former drug dealer who’s recently started working as a gardener, which doesn’t impress her girlfriend. When a member of Roman’s old crew steals a pound of weed from a rival operation, she finds herself in a tight spot. But she *loves* tight spots.

Take a look at it above. And you can find Henry’s episodes here, here, and here. [Read more…]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ROXTFfkcfo

Making a film where societal rules are reversed is a simple idea, but it’s rarely been done successfully. For example, White Man’s Burden, starring John Travolta and Harry Belafonte, imagined a world where black people are in charge and white people are the underclass, but it came across as heavy-handed and rather over-simplistic.

A couple of years ago the short film Love Is All You Need did the festival rounds, and found success with its tale of a society where gay people rule and straights are vilified. Now that short has been posted online in full. Although once again it can be a little obvious at times, it mainly smart, insightful, well made and pretty powerful.

It certainly does a great job of pointing out the things that are often overlooked or tolerated about homophobia, which would get society far angrier if it wasn’t happening to an underclass. Take a look above. [Read more…]

It’s not that often you see a PSA that could quite happily be included in the programme of a gay short film screening, but that’s true of ‘Stand Up!’, made by directors Anna Rodgers & Aoife Kelleher for the Irish BeLonG To Youth Services to support their annual Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Weeks.

It’s a call to stand up for homophobic bullying, with a young couple facing abuse for showing affection, but then an unexpected response comes from their schoolmates.

The Stand Up! campaign promotes friendship amongst young people as a way to combat homophobic bullying, which sounds like a pretty good idea to me. You can find out more here. [Read more…]

The 3 Bits has been one of the most entertaining new LGBT-themed web series, and now Episode 3 is here, which sees Henry Bits and his hot friend Grant trying to find love with their iPhones. It’s grindr vs. okcupid. Will either of them get lucky, or could one of them wind up dead?!

You can see the earlier episode here and here.

This is just one section of The 3 Bits, with the others Henry’s sister Roman, who’s also gay and a former weed dealer trying to get a career in freelance gardening off the ground. There’s also Madison, the oldest, is a mommy blogger determined to prove her rock-’n’-roll cred. You can follow the series over at The 3 Bits. [Read more…]