Directing

Colby Holt

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Directing

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6 titles

Colby Holt is a queer film & television director from the American South. He graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2011, where he studied Psychology & Folk Studies, competed on the National Champion Speech and Debate Team, and began his creative producing work. He studied writing for Television and Film under Michael McCarthy at iO Chicago. He is known for the television series' "Gayborhood" & "Down Home", the spoken word podcast "Queer Slam", and the feature film "Pig Hag". He has been collaborating with his partner in both life & film, Sam Probst, since 2012.

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5.8

After a small-town wrestling star develops a crush on an openly gay classmate, he is stalked by a grotesque creature that invades his thoughts as he navigates his feelings and struggles to live up to his legacy-obsessed family.

Ganymede

2023

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The true story of the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire, the worst mass murder of LGBTQ people in America until the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.

Tinderbox

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3.5

After being ghosted by a mortician she meets at a rock concert, a thirty-something travel nurse turns to her four gay best friends for support as she confronts hard truths about love and figures out her next move.