SXSW 2022 - Aspirational Slut, My Year of Dicks, and Gay Haircut

Author: [email protected] (Charlene Goto, Erin Lim, Bitch Talk Podcast, Angela Tabora, Go-To Productions, Caroline Lindy, Ellyn Jameson, Aspirational Slut film, My Year of Dicks film, Sara Gunnarsdottir, Pamela Ribon, Brie Tilton, Gay Haircut film, Jude Harr
Published: Fri 18 Mar 2022
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In this episode of our coverage for the SXSW Film Festival, we're bringing you the short films and episodic series that (in our opinion) have the best titles! Considering these names include the words slut, dicks, and gay, that should tell you a lot about us.

In the short film Aspirational Slut, we meet Rosemary, who has just gotten her heart broken, and decides she needs to forget about love and focus on having random sex for the first time in her life. We speak to director Caroline Lindy and the star Ellyn Jameson about the importance of women's sexual liberation, awkward sex scenes, and reclaiming the word slut.

The animated episodic series My Year of Dicks follows Pam, a teenager trying desperately to lose her virginity, and the dicks (literally and metaphorically) she meets along the way. We're joined by director Sara Gunnarsdottir, showrunner/writer Pamela Ribon, and lead actor Brie Tilton. In other words, get ready for a Zoom room full of women ready to commiserate about our younger years! We dive deeper into Pamela's childhood memoir that this series is based on, and the fantasy of a young girl's crush vs. the awkward (and sometimes gross) reality.

In the short film Gay Haircut, Krista is a bisexual comedian who starts dating a trans woman and is ready to come out- and needs a gay haircut to accompany her rebrand. We sat down with director Jude Harris and writer/star Krista Fatka, who explained how the short is semi-autobiographical, what it was like to work with their significant others, and behind the scenes info on the hilarious haircut scene. And of course Erin and Ange had to share how they used to have matching gay haircuts.

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SXSW 2022 - Aspirational Slut, My Year of Dicks, and Gay Haircut