Far Out

Far Out: UK’s first online lesbian drama now in production



Inner Sanctum has taken the wraps off its debut project – a fast-paced series featuring the lives, loves and dramas of a group of gay women.

Far Out is a tell-it-how-it-is window on the lives of a group of friends living in London. Already being hailed as the lesbian Queer As Folk, and drawing comparisons with This Life, Far Out is the creation of new talent Faye Hughes.

The project is the realisation of more than four years’ hard work and determination for Hughes. After touting her script – unsuccessfully – to a number of broadcasters including the BBC’s Writers Room, she has raised backing to launch the show online.

She says: “The media is so out of touch in the way it portrays gay women. Lesbians are either unattractive dykes, ball-breaking shrews or lentil-eating hippies with hairy armpits – and we’re all gagging to ‘convert’ straight women. Thankfully you can no longer portray gay men in this way – but lesbians still seem to be fair game”.

“With Far Out, I wanted to show what life for gay women is really like. That we have real and valid relationships, that we can be butch dykes or girly girls or anything in between, that we have kids, responsible jobs, families, ambitions and aspirations. We can honestly say that we are telling our story from experience, this isn’t a group of men sat in a board room making a series for money”

And Far Out is far from being a worthy endeavour. It’s a funny, gripping show that will take viewers on an emotional, sexy, roller coaster of a ride through contemporary lesbian life.

Belief in the project and the strength of the script is such that crew & cast are working for free. Designer, Anna Thomas has come straight from the Art Department of Sam Taylor Woods ‘Nowhere Boy’ and is booking up Soho locations for the filming. Enclave, on Brewer Street has been secured.
Casting is now taking place (DJ Cupcake and Jane CZ from DIVA are set to take cameo roles), filming will happen in the summer and a teaser will be launched at Pride.

The pilot episode will be released online following a screening in September.

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