WILD

ONES

A FILM BY

Leone DiSantis

“QUEER AS BEING ABOUT THE SELF THAT IS AT ODDS WITH EVERYTHING AROUND IT AND HAS TO INVENT AND CREATE AND FIND A PLACE TO SPEAK AND TO THRIVE AND TO LIVE.” 

- bell hooks

About

Following an explosion that leaves a low-level mobster for dead, his protégé Ray is left with a huge score of cocaine. Putting together a crew of their friends, Ray and the gang decide to move the drugs, using the payoff to escape the trappings of their small town. Will they make it out for good or stay behind to become the new top family of the Midwest Mob?


WILD ONES intends to canonize queer and trans people into the cinema landscape in a light they have seldom been afforded. The film doesn’t exist to explain a character’s queerness or offer up a didactic journey for straight, cis audiences. Instead, it offers a story for all crime-action fans inviting them into the enigmatic lives and messy ambitions of our anti-heroes.

Director

Leone DiSantis

Cinematographer

Maddy Talias

Executive Producer

Lilly Wachowski

Producers

Laura Burhenn

Katherine Croft

Shaan Dasani

Lavinia Jones Wright

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