🎬 Bury Your Gays 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

The film follows Grace (Jude Mack), a frustrated, working-class actor who notices a deeply troubling pattern in her career: every single queer role she lands somehow ends in a bizarre, untimely, or tragic death. After suffering yet another onscreen demise, she suddenly wakes up in a peculiar, surreal void inhabited by a magnetic, authoritative figure known simply as The Agent (T'Nia Miller). The Agent explicitly explains the harsh reality of her universe—the notorious "Bury Your Gays" cinematic trope

Trapped inside the void and armed with a limited number of "lives," Grace is tossed through a series of fantastical portals, forced to jump directly between completely different genres.

From gritty independent dramas and intense thrillers to cheesy Hallmark-style holiday movies and sweeping historical romances, she finds herself reliving the exact clichéd setups that have plagued queer characters for decades. Pitted against clueless directors, rigid production tropes, and scripts designed to sacrifice her for a straight character's growth, Grace has one clear, meta-breaking mission handed down by her cosmic agent: completely derail the narrative, outsmart the system, and do not die.

💡 Did You Know? 🧠
An Elite Crew Pedigree: Before making her official film directorial debut here, Charlotte Serena Cooper spent seven years as a high-profile script supervisor working alongside industry titans like Greta Gerwig and Sam Raimi on massive blockbusters including Barbie and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

A Familiar Face for Fans: The short reunites cast member Ella-Rae Smith with the platform's catalog—she previously starred as the lifeguard love interest Isla in the acclaimed 2021 British independent holiday park feature Sweetheart.

A Trope Turned on its Head: Cooper wrote the project as a direct, defiant response to the historical "Dead Lesbian Syndrome" and Hayes Code legacies. By filtering the tragic trope entirely through the lens of fourth-wall-breaking satire and comedy, the film effectively strips the tragedy out of the deaths to expose the sheer absurdity of the cliché.