The Script

Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago’s South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His unique approach to nonfiction storytelling centers on gender and queerness through process-forward and collaborative methods. Through intimate character stories and curious social experiments, he explores the inherited and traded narratives of queer and trans individuals.

Noah Schamus is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker of documentary and narrative films. Their short films have been presented at film festivals including BFI Flare, Outfest, Inside Out, NewFest, Indie Memphis, Maryland Film Festival, Provincetown Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival (where their short film, Chemistry of Mood garnered an Honorable Mention for Best Performance by Naian Gonzalez Norvind). Across, Beyond, and Over, co-directed with Brit Fryer, was featured on NoBudge and is a Vimeo Staff Pick. They are currently in post-production on their first narrative feature film, Summer Solstice which was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program grant, was included in the 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab as a Notable Writer, and was selected to take part in Us in Progress at the American Film Festival in November 2022. They hold an MFA from Columbia University in Screenwriting and Directing.