Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago’s South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His unique approach to nonfiction storytelling centers on gender and queerness through process-forward and collaborative methods. Through intimate character stories and curious social experiments, he explores the inherited and traded narratives of queer and trans life as a challenge to cultural stasis, ambivalence, and threats to self-determination.

His most recent film, The Script, co-directed with Noah Schamus, unpacks the boundaries of language and the role of performance in shaping and imagining a more expansive and gender-expansive healthcare system. The film was shortlisted for the 2023 IDA Awards and won the Creative Activism Award at the 2024 SIMA Awards. It is currently distributed on The Criterion Channel and The New Yorker.

Brit’s films have been screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including Blackstar, CPH: DOX, Newfest, Indie Grits, Nitehawk, and MIX NYC. He has received generous support from Creative Culture, The Sundance Institute, The Ford Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The Gotham Film and Media Institute, Points North Institute, GLAAD, and Film Fatales. He is forever thankful to the residencies that have given space for his practice, including Yaddo, Saltonstall, Silver Sun, and BRIC.

Noah Schamus is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker of documentary and narrative films. Their short films have been presented at film festivals including BFI Flare, Outfest, Inside Out, NewFest, Indie Memphis, Maryland Film Festival, Provincetown Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival (where their short film, Chemistry of Mood garnered an Honorable Mention for Best Performance by Naian Gonzalez Norvind). Across, Beyond, and Over, co-directed with Brit Fryer, was featured on NoBudge and is a Vimeo Staff Pick. They are currently in post-production on their first narrative feature film, Summer Solstice which was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program grant, was included in the 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab as a Notable Writer, and was selected to take part in Us in Progress at the American Film Festival in November 2022. They hold an MFA from Columbia University in Screenwriting and Directing.