In 2019, I began writing a feature film about college basketball, toxic masculinity, and compulsory heterosexuality. Today, I’m working towards making this film a reality! My team and I are preparing to create a proof of concept film that introduces the main characters, their conflict and their world. It is a short, six page script that opens on a basketball practice and then goes into a conversation in the woods between the main characters. This scene explores the characters, two men, fighting their feelings for each other with every excuse possible despite them both clearly having feelings for each other. The film takes place in 2011 and is set against the pressure filled, heteronormative world of college basketball, the feature film story explores what it means to come into yourself as an adult and become the type of person you want to see in the world. We’re hoping to use this short film to raise funds for the feature and get this story into the world!