Watch The Butch and the Baby Daddy (excerpt from How to Get a Girl Pregnant) on CBC Gem. This animated short is part of the Canadian Reflections Collection, a showcase of independent Canadian shorts. This program includes some amazing animation, so we are super stoked to be part of it!
You can also catch it on Apple TV!
Awards
Best of Fest, SAFFLICKS, U.K.
Best Original Story, Fishnets LGBTQ+ Festival, U.S.
Best International Animation, Latinx Film Market New York
Festivals 2023/24
Reframe, Peterborough
ReelOut Kingston
Fishnets and Film, Emeryville, US
Latino Film Market, New York
Queer East Midlands Film Festival
Bendigo, Australia
Newark LGBTQ Film Festival
6th Annual Cinema Systers Film Festival in Paducah, Kentucky
Latina Independent Film Extravaganza (LIFE) LA, California
Festival Mix: Cine y Diversidad Sexual/ Film & Sexual Diversity Mexico City, Mexico
Reel Out Charlotte Annual LGBTQ Shorts Night, Charlotte North Carolina
DesMoines Latino Festival, Iowa
Seattle Latino Film Festival
CineFem 11: Con una mirada de mujer, Uruguay
Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival
San Antonio QFest film festival
The Women’s Film Festival, Philadelphia
Latin American Toronto Film Festival
Queer Hamilton Film Fest
2023 Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival
International Queer Film Festival, Belgrade
Poppy Jasper Festival, California
Lesflicks LGBTQ History Month Film Festival UK
Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK
Animaqueer, Brazil
Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, California, US
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BLOG ROLL – ALL THE NEWS
“I was a butch lesbian, and I wanted to have a baby”
Sweet review of our short The Butch and the Baby Daddy by Trent School of Education, celebrating both our streaming on CBC Gem short and an upcoming Trent event focused on fertility https://www.trentu.ca/news/story/41577.
Joining CBC Canadian Reflections
We are super happy to share that The Butch and the Baby Daddy (excerpt from How to Get a Girl Pregnant) will be streaming on CBC Gem as of Thurs. Dec. 5th. GEM is free, so hop on and check it out. Our animated short will be part of the Canadian Reflections Collection, a showcase…
Tonight CBC Broadcast
TONIGHT hope you can catch our national broadcast on https://gem.cbc.ca/live of The Butch and the Baby Daddy! 11:30pm in all time zones.
3 Awards Wrap Worldwide Screenings
These 3 fabulous awards wrap a wonderful year of festival screenings around the world for the short animation The Butch and the Baby Daddy. We’re so happy to have participated in many Latinx, LGBTQ+, women’s and documentary festivals. Sending out our appreciation to everyone who runs these festivals and their hard work. Also many, many…
Poppy Jasper Film Festival
Tomorrow Tues. April 16th is LGBTQ+ day at the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival !!! And yes #thebutchandthebabydaddy will be screening! A whole day of LGBTQ+ films Yah! The Festival is in the historic downtown districts of Morgan Hill and Gilroy, California. http://Poppy Jasper Film Festival
Merlinka Queer Animation!
#thebutchandthebabydaddy is part of this awesome festival! Nice to see the great collection of #lgbtq animation films! https://merlinka.com/portfolio-category/animated-film/ Thurs. Dec. 7th FREE. in #belgrade
Toronto Premiere
#toronto #premiere #free this Sat. Oct. 21st 2pm Innis College, U of T Join us for the screening of #thebutchandthebabydaddy at https://www.lataff.ca/latinx-canadian-short-films/ with some fabulous Canadian Latinx films with Toronto Latin American Film Festival!
San Antonio Q Fest
Today Oct. 7th, 2023 at noon in #sanantonio the San Antonio QFest presents our wee film #thebutchandthebabydaddy as part of a shorts program. Love what you are doing in Texas! So important to support and love our queer culture today!
ReelQ Pittsburgh Screening
If you’re in #Pittsburgh here’s a way to start your weekend off right! Fri. Oct. 6th Reel Q Pittsburgh LGBTQ Film Festivall October 6-15th #thebutchandthebabydaddy plays as part of the shorts program reelq.eventive.org/films/64ff591e41baba00caf379d6
Drawing from Life – Animated Shorts
TODAY! Catch #thebutchandthebabydaddy in the DRAWING FROM LIFE – ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM Sun Oct 1, 2023 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM Women’s Film Fest Philadelphia Love the various styles in the animation!
Fall Screening Schedule
The Butch and the Baby Daddy (excerpt from How to Get a Girl Pregnant) is screening in multiple places this fall. Fri. Sept 22nd 12pm; Cinema Diverse in Palm Springs SHORTS SET: FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMATION 20 al 24 de setiembre de 2023 CineFem 11: Con una mirada de mujer, Uruguay Oct. 7th San…
Best International Animated Short
Super sweet! We have been selected Best International Animation at the Latino Film Market We’re honoured to be selected among this amazing group of films! #lgbtqfilm #latinxfilm
Celebrating Diverse Motherhood
Join us Monday June 26th
Join us for a captivating evening of exploration and discussion as we host a special event featuring the screening of the thought-provoking short film, “The Butch and the Baby Daddy.” This event aims to share the multifaceted experiences of motherhood through a queer lens, while also shining a spotlight on…
Pride Night, Des Moines, Iowa
Coming up this week the Des Moines Latino Film Festival – its free and open to the public. Big thanks to Latino Center of Iowa for screening #thebutchandthebabydaddy on Pride Night, Wednesday, June 14!
Cinema Systers
Co-Director of the Butch and the Baby Daddy, Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, attended Cinema Systers, the only all lesbian film festival in the USA! Films of all genres produced by lesbian filmmakers from around the world. Thank you to this wonderful group for the warm welcome!
Celebrating Reel Out Charlotte!
Whohoo coming up this week, The Butch and the Baby Daddy will be screening as part of https://www.facebook.com/reeloutcltShort Films Annual LGBTQ Shorts Night https://charlottepride.org/reelout2023/reel-out-charlotte-shorts-2023/L
LIFE Film Fest
Writer Karleen Pendleton Jiménez talks about the importance of the LIFE Film Fest which celebrates the creative work of Latina filmmakers from all across the world.https://youtu.be/ihUgUii1zzQ
Best Original Story!
We are beyond thrilled to announce that our short #thebutchandthebabydaddy has won Best Original Story at the Fishnets & Film festival! Massive congrats to Karleen Pendleton Jiménez who wrote the script and whose story it is!
How to Get a Girl Pregnant 