Kylie Mungenast
Directing
Biography
Kylie Mungenast's acute concentration on directing the actor, her revisionist approach to classical genre, and her connections to post-feminism and queer isolation stand among the notable stylistic traits of her filmography. Rooted in the San Francisco underground scene, Mungenast’s work often evokes lesbian pulp aesthetics, and explores the intersectionality of intimacy and exploitation through the female gaze.
Known For
A 15 year-old trickster begins selling Fake IDs in a last-ditch effort to save his local movie theater from closing. But, things take a turn for the worse when he is threatened by a dangerous, rival Fake ID dealer: his high school principal.
Fake$
A trans girl navigates a post-apocalyptic Smoky Mountain Tennessee wasteland to find hormone replacement therapy.
Esther Is Me And You Are A Liar
A ditzy waitress named Shirley May Holmes falls head-over-heels for Dorothy, a peppermint-clad pinup girl, but she has much to conquer if she wants to land a kiss from Dorothy's candy lips. Transphobic greasers, hetero-nonsense, and the nuclear blast itself will all come crashing down upon Shirley on this pivotal night... She may just need a little help to make it to sunrise alive.
Peppermint Pixie Dream Girl
A trans ghostwriter and a slippery bombshell retrace their steps from a San Francisco wrap party where actress Harmony Hall was murdered. Neither of these women killed her, but only one of them believes it.
Millie in Cis Hell
Lily longs to turn her romantic dreams into a reality while taking shelter with her traveling companion, May, amid a snowy 1890s Utah frontier.
In Bloom
2074: A huntress yearns for some kind of real connection.