AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER
CARYN K. HAYES
RELEASES LESBIAN-THEMED SHORT FILM
“CLEAN HANDS” ONLINE
LOS ANGELES, CA - Award-winning writer/filmmaker, Caryn
K. Hayes is joining a host of other indie directors taking a stab at
online distribution.
On August 22, Hayes will be
releasing her acclaimed narrative short entitled “Clean Hands” as
a digital download & streaming rental making the film directly available to
her fans and lesbian cinephiles alike at https://www.reelhouse.org/hardlyworkingtv/clean-hands as
well as on her official website: hardlyworkingent.com.
The New Orleans native (now Los
Angeles resident) world premiered the short earlier this year at the 2014
Pan African Film Festival before taking it through the film festival circuit
with screenings at The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and the Women’s
International Film & Arts Festival.
“Clean Hands" follows Anna and
Kirsten, a married couple who are caring for Anna's terminally ill father,
Paul. Anna is a woman who is always stuck in the middle- between her homophobic
father and her wife, her Christian beliefs and her sexuality - and she is
constantly under pressure from all sides. After Paul dies, Anna goes through a
tailspin of grief and pain, and Kirsten's attempts to help are rebuffed. When
Anna emerges from her spiral, will her rock in the storm be washed away?
Written & Directed by Caryn Hayes
and starring Grasie
Mercedes, Dawn Noel, Kurt Sinclair, and Ava Gaudet (voice), “Clean Hands" is a story about grief, faith, and love - (Link to trailer: http://youtu.be/AQIkFXR5jfI)
A graduate of Xavier University of
Louisiana, Caryn Hayes has been writing fiction since grade school and is a
published author.
The renaissance woman is also a
two-time winner of the TV Pilot Award in the original script competition
presented by the Organization of Black Screenwriters for “The Ridge” in 2007,
and “Dirty Thirties” in 2009.
In the spring of 2008, Hayes began
producing her own work under her multimedia production company, Hardly Working
Entertainment (http://HardlyWorkingEnt.com).
Her first comedic digital series, “The World of Cory & Sid,” was nominated
for Best Television or Web Series in 2009 by the Urban Mediamakers Film
Festival.
She received an Outstanding Writing
in a Drama Series award for her second series, “Breaking Point,” from the 2011
Los Angeles Web Series Festival. To date, "Breaking Point"
has been nominated/awarded over 20 times - including nods for Best Drama and
Best Directing from the 2012 International Television Festival. Her most
recent web series, a relationship dramedy dubbed “Entangled With You”, has
already been the recipient of five awards.
Be it her signature of sorts, Hayes
clearly has a natural propensity for drama - particularly the kind gravitating
towards relationship.
Whatever hat she is wearing, the
filmmaker, writer and producer has certainly carved for herself a successful
career, cementing her status as a voice to be reckoned with in the lesbian
film community.
“Clean Hands” will be available starting August 22 as a $2.49 streaming rental and/or a
$9.99 download at https://www.reelhouse.org/
