PRESS RELEASE: Award-winning writer/director, Tonnette Stanford and her sister,
Victoria Stanford, are the lesbian filmmakers behind an exciting new LGBT web
series on YouTube now.
Love Bytes – the web series is an six-part sitcom centred around three
housemates and their adventurous love lives. They are the Neapolitan ice cream
of sexuality. Young, sexy and single, they search for love and happiness in
Sydney’s modern hetero-flexible dating scene, but instead they often find
humiliation and hilarious misadventure. But no matter what happens, they always
have each other.
With assistance from Metro Screen’s Breaks program Tonnette and Victoria
were able to shoot the two pilots for Love Bytes, with another four episodes
coming soon. Keep an eye out for the crowd funding campaign that will be
launched in the next couple of months to help fund the rest of the series.
"Herpes
of the Lips," the first pilot, tackles what's become a
digital and universal dilemma: fake profile pictures. Michael thinks he's
meeting a sexy Bollywood model for a drink, but is unpleasantly surprised.
Lucky for him, his cold sore-cursed roommate comes to save the day….and leaves
a lasting (and contagious) impression.
The second pilot, "Justin
Beaver" explores what happens when a precious family
heirloom gets lost in the most unusual (and intimate) of places. Yes, it's exactly what you think, and the consequences are uproarious.
Tonnette and Victoria have a very distinct style in the queer filmmaking
space and their previous films have screened at over 180 festivals around the
world and received international acclaim. To make Love Bytes a reality they
have gathered together a talented team of AFTRS graduates and NIDA trained
actors, including gay actors, Adriano Cappelletta, Billie Rose Prichard, Bec
Irwin and Dave Halalilo.
"I have wanted to make a queer web series for a long time and there
are so many fantastic queer dating stories out there that I felt compelled to
write a show that features dating from a lesbian and gay perspective,"
Tonnette explains.
"The show is fun, sexy and hilarious," Victoria adds.
"There’s a lot of situations in there that will be very familiar to
audiences and we hope that they can have a good laugh at the absurdity of the
queer dating world that we’ve all been through!"
Check out Love
Bytes on
YouTube and, if you want to see what the remaining four
episodes have in store, make sure to subscribe, follow, like, share.
WHAT: Love Bytes – the web series
WEBSITE: www.lovebytes-theseries.com
