The Butch and the Baby Daddy – 3 Awards!

Posted on by Barb Taylor
Alex and Mateo at Alley of the Murals. Mural by Janet Leiva Romero
SAFFLICKS award laurels
SAFFLICKS award laurels
Laurels Best Original Story Fishnets and Film
Laurels Best Original Story Fishnets and Film

These 3 fabulous awards wrap a wonderful year of festival screenings around the world for the short animation The Butch and the Baby Daddy. We’re so happy to have participated in many Latinx, LGBTQ+, women’s and documentary festivals. Sending out our appreciation to everyone who runs these festivals and their hard work. Also many, many thanks to our distributor CFMDC.

Dreaming to become a mother, Alex must face her own fears to ask a friend to donate sperm. Alex has wanted to have a baby almost as long as she can remember. But how is a trans/butch lesbian supposed to get sperm? When she considers asking Mateo, a close gay friend of hers, Alex is forced to investigate what she really values. 

Its based on an excerpt from the book How to Get a Girl Pregnant by Karleen Pendleton Jiménez which was published in 2011 by Tightrope Books.  The book was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and chosen for the 2013 Over The Rainbow List by the American Library Association.

This project is a collaboration of the animator Barb Taylor and writer Karleen Pendleton Jiménez.

More information on the website: How to Get a Girl Pregnant

FESTIVALS 2023/24 

·         Reframe, Peterborough

·         ReelOut Kingston

·         Fishnets and Film, Emeryville, US

·         Latino Film Market, New York

·         Queer East Midlands Film Festival  

·         Bendigo, Australia     

·         Newark LGBTQ Film Festival   

·         6th Annual Cinema Systers Film Festival in Paducah, Kentucky

·          Latina Independent Film Extravaganza (LIFE)  LA, California 

·         Festival Mix: Cine y Diversidad Sexual/ Film & Sexual Diversity   Mexico City, Mexico

·         Reel Out  Charlotte  Annual LGBTQ Shorts Night,   Charlotte North Carolina

·         Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, California, US

·         DesMoines Latino Festival, Iowa

·         Seattle Latino Film Festival  

·         CineFem 11: Con una mirada de mujer, Uruguay

·         Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival  

·         San Antonio QFest film festival

·         The Women’s Film Festival, Philadelphia  

·         Latin American Toronto Film Festival

·         Queer Hamilton Film Fest

·         2023 Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival

·         International Queer Film Festival, Belgrade

·         Poppy Jasper Festival, California  

·         Lesflicks LGBTQ History Month Film Festival   UK

·         Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK

·         Animaqueer, Brazil