A person wearing glasses, a black cap, and an orange jacket sits with one hand resting on their chin against a blue background with white abstract patterns.
Brit Fryer
Photo: Brit Fryer
Director & Producer

Brit Fryer (he/him) is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago's South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Through intimate character stories and curious social experiments, he explores the inherited and traded narratives of queer and trans life as a challenge to cultural stasis, ambivalence, and threats to self-determination. His most recent film, THE SCRIPT, co-directed with Noah Schamus, unpacks the boundaries of language and the role of performance in shaping and imagining a more expansive and gender-expansive healthcare system. He is also the director of CARO COMES OUT, which premiered on HBO Max after winning the Knight Made in MIA Award at the Miami International Film Festival. His other films include ACROSS, BEYOND AND OVER and TRANS·IENCE. As a producer, his work includes Crystal Kayiza’s REST STOP, which won the Short Film Jury Award for US Fiction at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. His other credits include Lydia Cornett’s BUG FARM (PBS) and Casey Friedman’s PENTATARMEX RABITULAR (Short of the Week).

Program cohorts
QUEER FUTURESPOV Shorts Collab
films by Brit Fryer
A woman wears a pink gown and sings on stage in a concert hall. Behind her, a man plays piano.
Tessitura
Still from Tessitura
Still from The Script. In a set, a person with their back to the camera, talks to two other persons that are sitting in chairs in front of a table. To the right and left, there are camera crew people. In a dimly-lit set that resembles a doctor's office, two actors, dressed as a doctor and patient, look intently at the director speaking to them. The Script is a short film in the QUEER FUTURES series.
The Script
Still from The Script
more QUEER FUTURES winners
Portrait of Sasha Wortzel in black and white. A white woman with wavy brown hair in a fur trimmed coat and looks at the camera with their hands clasped.
Sasha Wortzel
Photo courtesy Sasha Wortzel
A white woman with long dark hair stands in front of a tree wearing a blue velvet shirt. Lindsey Dryden headshot in black and white.
Lindsey Dryden
Photo courtesy Lindsey Dryden
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