Studio Vosges Programming

Studio Vosges is a queer-led production company based in Atlanta dedicated to telling bold, artful stories centering LGBTQ+ and BIPOC lives in the American South. We exist to create cinematic space for voices often excluded from traditional filmmaking—particularly trans, nonbinary, and Black Southern narratives—and to do so while building an equitable, sustainable filmmaking ecosystem.

Our upcoming slate brings together four distinct but thematically connected projects:

Lila and Mason in a Dying Town is a slow-burn Southern drama about a trans girl and her boyfriend wrestling with the quiet pressures of staying or leaving their rural hometown. Quiet, intimate, and grounded in realism, the story reflects the cost of safety, secrecy, and love in a place where both futures and identities feel limited.

Becoming Sophia is a poetic exploration of gender, autonomy, and the emotional terrain of trans embodiment. Part visual essay, part allegorical journey, the film centers a trans woman confronting her reproductive longing and finding unexpected clarity through art, stillness, and movement.

Prime Directive is a short speculative work that blends sci-fi and psychological horror to express the haunting ache of biological dysphoria. It imagines a future where systems of control amplify personal longing—and explores how trans bodies resist, endure, and redefine purpose.

The Duchess of Grant Park expands on our celebrated short film, following a self-appointed duchess—an elegant, political, Black trans woman—as she reclaims the South through symbolic resistance, mutual aid, and queer sovereignty. The feature blends regal camp, community advocacy, and Southern grit into a cinematic portrait of leadership born from loss and legacy.

All our projects are led by trans, queer, and gender-expansive artists, with a commitment to hiring majority queer crews and paying living wages. We believe the process is part of the story—and our working model is grounded in mentorship, collaboration, and trust.

Studio Vosges is also home to Court Circular, our culture zine, and The Ava Davis Show, a filmed conversation series highlighting queer creatives in the South. Together, our film and media programming builds visibility while creating tangible support networks for marginalized artists.

Through every frame, we ask: What does it mean to not just survive, but thrive, in the places that weren’t built for us? Our answer is always the same—we build new worlds.