A close up of two 30-something-year-old queer Black woman couple look lovingly into each other's eyes while standing in a home.

August and Ebony

Sunyin Zhang 2023 0:12:50 Min English English Open Captions United States Narrative, Narrative/Comedy

In August & Ebony, Ebony finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after a U-Haul marriage and has to navigate between her new wife August, her best friend-turned-child’s father Justin, and her own footing as a mother-to-be.

View Screening

Synopsis

Four-month pregnant EBONY isn’t ready for this baby and a podcast about wild childbirth stories only heightens her anxieties. Her wife of 3-months, AUGUST, comforts and reassures her...and it almost works until JUSTIN, her best friend and hook-up-turned-father of her child, bursts into the house, armed with his binder of research. Determined to save these two wholly unprepared mothers-to-be, he invites himself to stay over—much to August’s dismay.

Reviewing Justin’s research only leads Ebony to a crisis of confidence, worsened when August and Justin clash. When Ebony asks for their help to create a birth plan, she’s ignored. She finally scolds August and Justin to work together for her and the baby. The two rivals sheepishly put their rivalries aside to build a plan to get Ebony to the hospital and the throuple form a united front, choosing to weather this lifelong co-parenting journey together.

Screenings

ENCORE: Queer Families Belong

Six films. Who counts as family. Who gets to define it. Watch anytime between September 11-21.

Friday, September 11, 2026

View Screening Details

Online Encore ENCORE: Queer Families Belong

Queer Families Belong

Six films. Who counts as family. Who gets to define it.

Sunday, June 14, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

View Screening Details

In-person

Content Warnings

Swearing

Specific Themes

Community Families Marriage Pregnancy Relationships Romance Sexual orientation Transgender

Credits

Director: Sunyin Zhang
Screenwriter: A. Cooper
Producer: Pinar Binay
Executive Producer: Joyce Liu-Countryman
Co Producer: N/A
Cast: Rejena J. Taylor, Ayesha Harris, John Clarence Stewart
Cinematographer: Garland McLaurin
Editor: Luqi Zhao
Production Design: Jolien Louis

About Filmmaker(s)

Sunyin Zhang is a Chinese director, screenwriter and editor now residing in Los Angeles. She works in fiction, documentary and VR. Zhang often focus on gender diversity. Her first short film Qiushui was screened at many international film festivals including the 2019 LA International Short Film Festival (*OSCAR® Qualifying and BAFTA® Qualifying) ; Her Calarts thesis Wild Seed won the Alison Doerner Award for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking and was selected in CAA MOEBIUS Showcase 2021. In 2021, she signed to the Stars Collective program created by Stars Collective Film Entertainment Corporation, Inc. From 2020, she worked as an editor in DA Culture International INC. and edited many short animations that attracted over 1M+ views online. From 2016 to 2018, she worked as board of directors at BPE Film Studio in Beijing and produced multiple commercial productions that attracted over 10M+ views online. Sunyin Zhang got her MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts in 2020.

Griffin Jing (she/her) looking at her reflection in her bathroom mirror, blow drying her long, dark brown hair.

Short film

At Home

At Home pairs two voices: a 29-year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist. Through jam sessions, shared gatherings, and the legacy of the Brick Hut Cafe and the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, this experimental documentary explores queer friendship as a way of life, across fifty years of difference and everything they share.

Aubrey Pandori