‘You’ve got to fight in this world. You’ve got to fight to get there and you’ve got to fight to stay there’. Mae West

Selected for Inside Out International Financing Forum. Supported in development by Screen Scotland, Getty Images, Autlook Filmsales, City University New York, Art Design and Media Research Centre, SHU.

A bold hybrid documentary that reveals the Hollywood comedy star’s unexplored connections with, and debt to, Queer and African American Cultures, in 1920s America.  With humour and style, the film will celebrate how her controversial, ground-breaking, yet little-known work as a playwright, formed her and made her name, before she became a star, and inspires artists and audiences today.