Blue Finch Films boards ‘Lesbian Space Princess’

Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s animated feature Lesbian Space Princess has secured international representation ahead of its premiere at next month’s Berlin International Film Festival, with UK distributor Blue Finch Films set to handle worldwide sales outside Australia and New Zealand.

As per Variety, the company will launch international sales for the film at Berlin’s European Film Market, offering the chance for a broader release on the back of its inclusion in the Panorama section of the annual festival.

The second feature to come out of SA low budget feature film initiative, Film Lab: New Voices, Lesbian Space Princess follows an anxious space princess who is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.

Along the way, a problematic spaceship and a runaway gay-pop idol join her hazardous encounters with blade-wielding maniacs, dangerous dick turrets, and the scariest thing of all: her own self-doubt. The We Made a Thing Studios Production, on which Tom Phillips was a producer, was backed by principal production funding from Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation in association with the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund.

The film was one of five titles from SA showcased at Cannes last year as part of a partnership between the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) and Cannes Marche du Film, and won the Feature Fiction Audience Award at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival. It will be released in Australia via Umbrella Films.

Speaking to Variety, Blue Finch Films’ managing director Mike Chapman described the comedy as “an utter joy — not only side-splittingly hilarious, but also immensely heart-warming.”

The 2025 Berlin International Film Festival will be held from February 13 -23.

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