Chester Algernal Gordon
Costume & Make-Up
Known For

Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.
The Inspection

Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
The Forty-Year-Old Version

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
Port Authority

A volatile partnership between a hardened mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent are forced into an uneasy alliance to track down those responsible for the killing of civil rights leaders — uncovering a conspiracy that tests the limits of justice, loyalty and survival.
By Any Means

Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

Darren keeps trying - and failing - to propose to his boyfriend Elliot. When their relationship is called into an uncomfortable spotlight during someone else's outrageous engagement party, Darren realizes he actually might be self-sabotaging himself due to unresolved insecurities about his sexuality.
Engaged

Mona DeLiza and Jean D’Arc, known to their imaginary fans as 'Zhe Zhe' (pronounced jhee jhee or ʒi ʒi) , are draggy campy 'girls' who'd do anything for a moment in the spotlight, even if it means venturing out into the mass hysteria of post-apocalipstick New York to do battle with vegan fascists, celebutante video artists, trust-fun-derground benefactor blonds, seductive comedians, nostalgic punks, Donald Trump(s), slactivist political protesters, transplant cool hunters, and the Middle Eastern oil industry. Trapped in the myth of 'ye olde Hollywood', stuck in the dream of a rock and roll suicide and utterly addicted to identity itself, Mona and Jean, already legends to each other, will achieve immortal fame if it kills them.
Zhe Zhe

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
Hair Wolf

16th July 1969: America prepares to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of kilometers away, a ragtag group of Zambian exiles is trying to beat America to the Moon.
Afronauts

Trans teen Hanna learns the meaning of family when she discovers the New York gay ball scene.
Walk for Me

A black boy learns contradicting lessons of manhood and masculinity on the day of his cousin's funeral.
-Ship: A Visual Poem

Teenage lovebirds Fran and Angie spend the summer at home while Fran begins their transition. They must face who and what they mean to each other when they visit the beach, their love on display for all to see
Fran This Summer
The story of Wimbledon tennis champ and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe

Working as a mortician at his father's funeral parlor, Junior cycles through an unsatisfying life routine. A night out with friends forces him to see the world as it truly is.