I'm Lee Dubin, a filmmaker and photographer from Los Angeles, and I am the writer and director of the short film "Dropping In," a story about a young woman facing her fears in skateboarding and relationships at a summer camp for women and gender-diverse skaters. This story is based upon my real experiences spending summers at the YMCA Sequoia Lake Skate Camp, and will be filmed on-site during this summer's Women + Trans (WT) Skate week. I am so excited to bring this project to life with a team of incredible collaborators, and with your help sharing and donating, we can make it happen.

To move into production, we need to reach a little less than half of our goal at $5,000 by August 13th. Every dollar counts, and every share to a friend who might be interested in contributing makes a huge difference!

CREW:

Writer + Director + Producer: Lee Dubin

Lee Dubin (they/them) is a photographer, director and researcher based in Los Angeles, California. Their work explores the intersection of queerness and subculture, often working as a documentarian within the spaces of film, music and skateboarding.

Executive Director: Kim Woozy

Kim Woozy (she/her) is an entrepreneur, community leader and advocate in the skateboarding community. She has spent the last 18 years creating and contributing to brands, organizations and events that inspire, connect and empower girls and women including MAHFIA.TV, Women’s Skateboarding Alliance (WSA), Quit Your Day Job Film, The Skate Exchange Tokyo, Skate Like a Girl and Slmbr Party. In 2019, she advocated for California State Bill AB 467 (Equal Pay for Equal Play) which was signed into law in 2020. Most recently, she served as the Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Skate Like a Girl, a 501c3 community-led organization whose mission is to create an inclusive community by promoting confidence, leadership and social justice through skateboarding.

Director of Photography: Seannie Bryan

Seannie Bryan (she/her) is a cinematographer, photographer and director living in Los Angeles. She has done beautiful work on many short films and music videos and has worked on feature films, both documentary and narrative.

CAST:

Both featured skaters, Yumi Lee (she/they) and Jess Zheng (she/her), are skateboarders from Toronto. Yumi is a co-leader of local collective Queer Skate Toronto and Jess is a volunteer within the collective.