Porter's romantic comedy, starring Eva Reign, premieres Thursday at LGBTQ film festival Outfest, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
— which marks his directorial debut — was to present a Gen Z coming-of-age story centered on a trans girl that hadn’t existed before, a romantic comedy for today’s generation that’s made in the spirit of a John Hughes film like“It’s been a dream for a long time.
I’ve been working towards it for a very long time,” says Porter, the Emmy-winning star of, due out July 22 on Amazon Prime Video, tells the story of Kelsa. Played by Eva Reign, Kelsa is a Black transgender high school girl — with a supportive mother — who navigates friendships, falls in love with a boy , and deals with drama that their relationship causes, while planning for college. “She tries to figure out what she’s actually capable of in life,” says Porter.
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