Kyle Casey Chu (creator / executive producer / talent / story)
Kyle Casey Chu (Panda Dulce) is a screenwriter and one of the founding queens of the Drag Queen Story Hour. Her work centers Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) stories, atraditional chosen families and displaced San Franciscans.
In June 2022, far-right extremists stormed her Drag Queen Story Hour, making global headlines. Despite this- and the authorities (somehow) failing to cite or later charge the extremists- she completed the reading for the children and their families. She is now leveraging her international platform to tell even bolder LGBTQ+ helmed stories to global audiences.
Kyle's writing and performance has been featured on Vogue, NPR, NBC, HuffPost, VICE, Paramount+, them.us, at Harvard & MIT's Broad Institute, as part of the White House's "It's On Us" campaign, and more. Her writing has received awards from the Sundance Institute, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the California Arts Council.
Kyle Casey Chu (Panda Dulce) is a screenwriter and one of the founding queens of the Drag Queen Story Hour. Her work centers Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) stories, atraditional chosen families and displaced San Franciscans.
In June 2022, far-right extremists stormed her Drag Queen Story Hour, making global headlines. Despite this- and the authorities (somehow) failing to cite or later charge the extremists- she completed the reading for the children and their families. She is now leveraging her international platform to tell even bolder LGBTQ+ helmed stories to global audiences.
Kyle's writing and performance has been featured on Vogue, NPR, NBC, HuffPost, VICE, Paramount+, them.us, at Harvard & MIT's Broad Institute, as part of the White House's "It's On Us" campaign, and more. Her writing has received awards from the Sundance Institute, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the California Arts Council.
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Katie Frimodig (executive producer / managing editor)
Katie has loved movies ever since she was a kid. When the stock market crashed in ‘08 and she lost her job on her first day of training as a network administrator for a Fortune 500 company, she took that as a sign to follow her passion. She went back to school for art at LCAD, developed a portfolio, and continued her studies at AAU to learn animation and VFX. Frimodig has been a professional Bay Area filmmaker since ‘18, with experience spanning large and small productions; shorts, feature films and commercials. Her independent work focuses on stories made about, by and featuring queer people in a positive light. She works as a Film Editor, DIT, AC/Grip, Script Supervisor, B-Cam, Cam Op, BTS and occasionally as a PA, and is currently working as head of craft services on her first sequel film. She is prepping her first feature-length script that she wrote during the pandemic, to produce and direct in 2023. |
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Donna Mae Foronda (executive producer / producer / story)
Donna Mae Foronda is a screenwriter based in the SF Bay Area. She ventured into filmmaking in 2007 and learned the ropes through her time at Chapman University (B.A. Screenwriting, minor LGBTQ Studies), unpaid Hollywood internships (NBCUniversal, Center for Asian American Media), and collaborating with other Bay Area filmmakers in a local indie film incubator - Scary Cow.
She's written and produced multiple short films receiving awards from Outstanding Writing to Audience Choice, and screened at SF's Castro Theatre, CAAM Film Festival, Asian Film Festival of Dallas, and the Maine International Film Festival.
Donna Mae Foronda is a screenwriter based in the SF Bay Area. She ventured into filmmaking in 2007 and learned the ropes through her time at Chapman University (B.A. Screenwriting, minor LGBTQ Studies), unpaid Hollywood internships (NBCUniversal, Center for Asian American Media), and collaborating with other Bay Area filmmakers in a local indie film incubator - Scary Cow.
She's written and produced multiple short films receiving awards from Outstanding Writing to Audience Choice, and screened at SF's Castro Theatre, CAAM Film Festival, Asian Film Festival of Dallas, and the Maine International Film Festival.
