When a group of queers come together for a weekend wedding in the Redwoods, a clash of friends, family members, and former lovers shakes interpersonal dynamics and puts relationships to the test.
QUEERLY BELOVED is a feature dramedy about a diverse group of queer friends whose bonds are tested when they come together for a weekend wedding in the Redwoods. Through interwoven mini-plots, this ensemble film depicts the beauty and hilarity of Bay Area queer community as friends, lovers, exes, and relatives navigate their intertwined relationships, threading and re-threading the fabric of chosen family.
Florencia Manóvil is a queer Latina writer-director whose work expresses a yearning to evolve societal paradigms, through an ecofeminist lens. Born in Buenos Aires, Manóvil moved to the U.S. to study film at Emerson College on an Honors scholarship. A Bay Area resident since 2007, a local paper named her “Best East Bay Filmmaker” for her web series DYKE CENTRAL, lauded by press and fans for its groundbreaking representation of diverse LGBTQ characters.
Manóvil is a current SFFILM Sound and Cinema fellow, and was a 2024 SFFILM FilmHouse resident. She’s a two-time recipient of the Frameline Completion Fund, and her films have screened at festivals around the world, including Outfest, Newfest, Cine Las Américas, and Iris Prize. Her new short film, Berkeley Film Foundation grant recipient CAMINO, is in post-production. Manóvil is procuring financing for QUEERLY BELOVED, an ensemble wedding feature (Stowe Story Labs 2024 selection) about the power and magic of queer community; and developing TWELVE, a thrutopian limited series (2024 Writing Climate Pitchfest). She’s a member of Film Fatales and active in her local film community. She’s also an Intimacy Coordinator and devoted parent to an impressive teen.
