Ahead of its official release, Queer Vancouver: The Past, Present, and Future will premiere at a public screening on November 13th, 2022. The event will be hosted in Vancouver by East Side Studios at The Warehouse (550 Malkin Ave). All 6 episodes will be screened in an exclusive first look. Doors open at 630pm and tickets are “pay what you can”. Event and ticket information is available at www.queervancouver.eventbrite.ca

The goal of this documentary is to highlight the lives of queer women, and other marginalized members of Vancouver’s queer community whose stories often go untold. Through a collection of interviews, the filmmakers introduce a diverse group of local activists, artists, and performers, including queer trailblazers of the past 50 years, and the next generation of community leaders. The series also explores queer nightlife and queer run spaces in Vancouver, as well as organizations doing important advocacy work in the city.

Queer filmmakers Steph and Katie Burlton describe the series as “a celebration of queer joy! We feel honoured to get to tell the stories of our community, and making this project has truly been such a healing experience for us”. Production of this project took place on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, on the land also known as Vancouver.

View the Trailer Here:

See Production Images Here!

About Lez See the World
Founded in 2016 by married lesbian couple Steph and Katie Burlton, Lez See the World is a queer digital media company based in Vancouver, BC. Specializing in queer travel and lifestyle content, Steph and Katie have combined their professional skillsets and years of industry experience to build an impressive reputation for themselves. Working with top clients like Toyota, Fairmont, and Hudson’s Bay, Lez See the World has been featured in Popsugar and the Globe and Mail, and Steph and Katie recently won Creators of the Year at the Atelier 25 Awards. Queer Vancouver: The Past, Present, and Future is Lez See the World’s first large-scale production and  first documentary project as part of TELUS STORYHIVE’s inaugural Voices program.

About TELUS STORYHIVE
TELUS STORYHIVE provides funding and training to content creators in BC and Alberta to support compelling original storytelling. We support projects that reflect a diversity of voices, ideas, and views, and feature local places and events. STORYHIVE projects are distributed for free on TELUS OptikTM TV On Demand and online. For more information, visit www.storyhive.com

About East Side Studios
Eastside Studios is a queer woman and trans-owned event production company, specializing in drag and live music events in unconventional and pop-up spaces. Eastside Studios is proud to host exclusively queer and trans organizers and curators, and has established itself as a cornerstone of Vancouver’s queer community.

Media Contact:
Steph Burlton and Katie Burlton
LEZ SEE THE WORLD
@lezseetheworld
info@lezseetheworld.com
www.queervancouver.com

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This past year was a really pivotal one for us, and we reached some very big goals. We secured more client projects than ever before, and increased our income from brand partnerships exponentially. We also collaborated with more travel and tourism clients than in any other year, and made the most out of the months that we were able to travel safely around our province. We also focused on diversifying our content, and put a lot of time and effort into growing our YouTube channel. At the end of 2021 we were invited to join the YouTube Partner Program, which allows us to add an additional passive income stream to our business. We also continued to grow the consulting division of our business, and worked with new consulting clients to share what we’ve learned, and help others grow their own businesses! Finally, we focused a lot on networking, which resulted in some really wonderful interviews and press mentions. We also got some major recognition by being nominated for 2 industry awards and winning 1 of them! We were nominees for ‘Travel Influencer of the Year’ at the Gay Travel Awards by GayTravel.com, and we won ‘Creator of the Year’ at the Atelier 25 Awards by The Atelier Collective. Last year was proof that hard work really does pay off, and we’re so proud of what we were able to accomplish. Now in 2022 it’s time to level up, and let some of our even bigger dreams become realized!

Steph’s film background is in documentary, and we’ve always wanted to incorporate some long-form documentary style video into our content. Back in the fall of last year we applied for a program here in BC, and put together a full proposal for a documentary project that we really want to make together. In January we found out that we’ve been awarded a $10,000 production grant through the Telus STORYHIVE Voices Program to create our project! We will be making a 6 part documentary series about the queer community here in Vancouver. The program offers mentorship, workshops, and guidance throughout the process, and when our project is finished it will be distributed on TELUS Optik TV On Demand! 

We are so excited to share this process with our Lez See The World community. We are beyond thrilled to be making this dream come true as it’s something we’ve always wanted to do with our business. We are so grateful to TELUS and to STORYHIVE for valuing us as creators, and for valuing queer stories. We can’t wait to get started on this project and to share the finished result with all of you later this year. Steph will be directing and editing, and the two of us will be co-writing and co-producing the series. It’s titled Queer Vancouver: The Past, Present, and Future, and the 6 episodes will explore the queer community in our home city. We are so excited to dive into this work, and we feel honoured to get to tell this story. 

This is the year that Lez See The World is officially expanding to include a production company, with this being our first large scale project. We know this is the start of many big things, and we couldn’t be more excited! Stay tuned for more updates.

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