Help us take The Anti Exorcist to film festivals globally

Queer short film The Anti Exorcist has been completed and is ready to take on festivals around the world.

The Anti Exorcist is a queer parody of exorcist films, in which a gender-bending spirit turns the tables against an unwitting priest.

The film responds to the justification of exorcism in cinema. We seek to challenge both a practice that has claimed lives, and a genre that has advertised it. We also link exorcism and conservative anti-queerness. Queers are outcast, driven out, made demons. But we still fight back.

We live in a period where LGBT rights, especially trans rights, are under attack. Now is a time for art that celebrates queer resistance. Through The Anti-Exorcist we're excited to help uplift the new generation of queer filmmakers, developing skills to give voice to queer perspectives.

Writer-director Ani White (they/them) has a Doctorate in Media and Communication, and produced the debut short Illuminati Castrati (2024). Illuminati Castrati was accepted into film festivals including the South Film and Arts Academy Festival (Chile), The Eastern European Film Festival, and the queer-feminist Squish Movie Camp (Rotterdam).

The New New Film Collective are dedicated to making space for queer voices in the world of film. Inspired by the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1980s, we want to create sexy films that aren't tied to old standards. We're not trying to fit in or appeal to anyone - our films are unapologetically queer, made by and for queer people.