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Filmmaker Sav Rodgers, Director of Chasing Chasing Amy, is Back and Working on a New Film

By Shelby Faulkner

Director Sav Rodgers is working on a new film, and he’s teaming up with some amazing folks in the film industry—and you—to make it a reality.

Sav is best known for his acclaimed documentary Chasing Chasing Amy—a deeply moving film that explores the impact of Kevin Smith’s 1997 comedy Chasing Amy on the LGBTQ+ community and, more importantly, Sav’s exploration of his own identity as he processes this film’s role in his own coming out and transition.

Pancake Skank, his new comedy short, promises to be a surreal film that celebrates queer people and the fun of cinema.

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Woman & queer-owned indie film company New 32 puts inclusion first

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By Sophia-Joelle McDowell

New 32 Productions is a small, woman and queer-owned independent film company based in North Carolina. The company bases its decisions on values and is hell-bent on creating better conditions for creators in indie film. 

With New 32 Productions, they focus on developing small crews of people who are treated well and are good at what they do. And their team is stacked.

Raven Angeline Whisnant wears a lot of hats. She leads the team, films, produces, directs, edits, writes, and constantly needs to be ready to deal with whatever the day calls for. Co-founder Charlie Monroe is another woman of many talents. Monroe is even starring as the title character in the upcoming comedy Bernard Gets Famous. Additionally, she wrote their new short film debut, Biters & Bleeders.

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Badass Babe Sav Rodgers: Queer Stories on Film

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By Kelcie McKenney

When Sav Rodgers walks into a room, he instantly fills it with radiating, invigorating energy. Always wearing a baseball hat—often repping KC on it—he’ll wrap you up in a rush of ideas, complex conversation, questions about who you are, how you’re feeling, what you’re thinking, and why you’re here. At 24 years old, Rodgers is a force to be reckoned with—enough so that you often forget just how young he is.

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Photo by Travis Young

Today, Rodgers’s Ted Talk went live.

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