Aussie Animated Indie ‘Lesbian Space Princess’ Blasts Off with Blue Finch

The 2D animated adult comedy-adventure Lesbian Space Princess has been acquired by U.K.-based Blue Finch for global distribution (excluding Australia and New Zealand). The pic was greenlit by South Australia’s Film Lab: New Voices program in 2023 and will make its world premiere in the Panorama program at Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 13-23). Blue Finch will launch sales at the concurrent European Film Market (Feb. 13-19).

An anxious space princess 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.

Lesbian Space Princess s the debut feature film by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, and has been picked up by Umbrella Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand. Umbrella’s Ari Harrison has also boarded the project as an executive producer alongside Cam Rogers. Tom Phillips (We Made a Thing Studios) is producer and executive producer.

Written and directed by Hough Hobbs & Varghese, the film features the voices of Shabana Azeez (Birdeater), Gemma Chau-Tran (Mustangs FC), Kween Kong (Drag Race Down Under), Madeline Sami (Badjelly, Our Flag Means Death) and surrealist comedy trio Aunty Donna.

Film Lab: New Voices is an initiative co-funded by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) and Screen Australia, which sees three South Australian filmmaking teams mentored through a 12-month skills development program to develop their first low-budget feature film script. At the completion of the lab, each team can apply for $600,000 in screen production grant funding.

Lesbian Space Princess previously held a Work-in-Progress screening at Adelaide Film Festival.

[Sources: Variety, Blue Finch]