Cake & Candles is a webseries centred around a year in the life of three queer friends as they celebrate various birthdays. The series explores important themes such as sexuality, gender, and race, but also touch on subjects such as friendship, family and youth culture in London.
Created by Julia Almeida Coelho & Nicky Chue.
Episode 1:
Preheat Oven
web series episode | 2018 | 11’
writer & director
CN: transphobic remarks from 02:55 - 03:28
Dee’s ideal birthday would be a quiet get-together with close friends, but her gregarious younger sister Cristina has different plans for their joint party - emotions are running high before the night has even begun, and then there’s the matter of Dee’s not-so-secret crush …
press
promo
official trailer | 2018 | 1’
editor
crowdfunding teaser | 2017 | 1’
director & editor
screenings & events
QueerBee Film Festival - online - 2020
London Short Film Festival - London, UK - 2019
Duckie Family - London, UK - 2018
London Design Festival, Livity UK - London, UK - 2018
Pilot Light TV Festival - Manchester, UK - 2018 + Q&A + episode 2 script read + Zine Workshop
LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2019
Text: Dan Guthrie, 2019. Image: Afra Zamara, 2017.
NEW SHORTS: IRL
A collection of British new short films that explores the nature of millennial relationships "in real life."
When did we disconnect? How do we reconnect? (And do we even want to?) We’re a generation trapped in uncomfortable places yet finding empowerment in taking up space.
Reality proves anxiety-inducing and mundane in equal measure, and these new short films highlight both the good and the bad sides of millennial connections, online and off.
With cameos from Liv Wynter, Kate Nash and Brigitte Aphrodite. Programmed by Jenny Clarke.
LSFF NATIONAL TOUR
Tyneside Cinema - Sat 20th April, 6pm
QUAD - Derby - Thurs 25th April, 6pm
Showroom Cinema, Sheffield - Sat 4th May, 3.30pm
Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast - Sat 18th May, 3.30pm
Depot Cinema, Kitchen & Bar, Lewes - Thu 23rd May, 5.30pm
PILOT LIGHT TV FESTIVAL 2018
REEL GOOD FILM CLUB PRESENT:
Cake & Candles Q&A + Zine Workshop
RGFC presents the premiere of Cake & Candles; a Web Series centred around a year in the life of three queer friends as they each celebrate their birthdays.
Following this screening, RGFC lead a discussion about the future of Queer Web Series, a live script read of the second episode of Cake & Candles with its cast and an associated zine workshop.