ONE STORY AT A TIME centers on a unique life journey of the prolific LGBTQ+ activist and artist extraordinaire, Celeste Lecesne. Lecesne is the Academy Award winning filmmaker, performer, writer and author, whose Trevor Project has saved hundreds of lives.
In the docu-short ONE STORY AT A TIME, Celeste Lecesne candidly shares how he not only escaped the confines of homophobia but combatted it by finding the courage to share his truth with the world. In a seemingly fateful chain of events, an Off-Broadway solo-show becomes an Academy Award-winning film that ultimately inspires The Trevor Project, the largest suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQIA+ youth. Now, 25 years later, countless lives have been saved, and Celeste stays the course, inspiring the next generation to have the bravery to claim their truth and continue to change the world, one story at a time.
Writer/director Natalia Iyudin works with the themes of oppression and personal freedom, both in the narrative genres of sci-fi and horror, and her nonfiction work.
Her short films screened worldwide — most notably The Garden, starring Sophia Lillis (Adults, Sharp Objects) — and in 2019, she made her directorial TV debut for the CW and Netflix with showrunner Vera Miao's "Two Sentence Horror Stories", starring Nicole Kang (Catwoman, Swallow) and Jim Parrack (True Blood).
Natalia developed multiple series including Girly, with Rashida Jones and Refinery29; directed for mental health campaigns around teen suicide and opioid crises; and on several projects for Toyota. She also co-created and directed We Got You, an award-winning digital series with Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots.
A graduate of the Directing Program at the Krzysztof Kieslowski School of Film & Television in her native Poland, Natalia is also a seasoned film and TV editor, and a programmer, and has worked with MTV, BET, PBS, Vogue, MoMA, Film Society of Lincoln Center, National Gallery of Arts, BAM, Sony Pictures Classics among others.
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