why did you make this movie?

Rob: An awakening started in m e with the Me Too movement and Jen's involvement in that. I always thought of myself as an ally to all, but I never really knew what that meant. I started thinking about all the privilege I was afforded by a power structure whether I deserved it or not and I wanted to do something about it. Allyship, I realized, was not a passive state of intellectual or emotional being. It was a state of action, and I needed to take action. I dug in to doing the work of being an ally and Iwas disturbed by how many biases, assumptions and false narratives Ihad been taught, or simply accepted as truth. And I'm a "woke", liberal, democrat. It made me wonder: how many others need to see how damaging we can be?

The LGBTQ community has always been important to both of us. Both personally and professionally, our lives are immeasurably better because of our involvement with the community. We have watched in horror as the community has been persecuted for no other reason than who they love. In talking to our 2SLGBTQ friends and family, organizations, and of course google, and we found that having ONE supportive adult can mean the world of difference for a Queer kid. Literally the difference between life and death. When we thought about how any kids across the world don't have that, we tried to give them something in the meantime: a story of hope.

Jen: Making movies is the best way we know to reach people, so Ireached out to a brilliant LGBTQ writer l'd been working with, Allie Jennings. We needed an authentic LGBTQ voice, and Allie delivered a funny, poignant, heartbreaking and heartbursting script that blew us away.

Rob: We wanted to tell the story of building a bridge between two people who seem at first to have nothing in common, but end up being just what the other needs.