Lisa Donato

Movies

Gossamer Folds
Director
In 1986, ten-year-old Tate Millikin is forced to spend a lonely summer witnessing the breakup of his parents' marriage. Tate eventually befriends his new next-door neighbors - recently retired English professor, Edward Bryant and his transgender daughter, Gossamer. Despite his father’s knee-jerk transphobia and his mother’s misplaced protectiveness, Tate forms a deep friendship with fellow misfit Gossamer, that changes his and their familys life.
There You Are
Director
A trans woman must dress like a boy to say goodbye to her dying grandmother.
Foxy Trot
Director
A lesbian couple is unexpectedly faced with their relationship issues when they take ballroom dance lessons in a heteronormative class.
Foxy Trot
Writer
A lesbian couple is unexpectedly faced with their relationship issues when they take ballroom dance lessons in a heteronormative class.
The News Today
Producer
The last ordinary moments between two guys in love.
The News Today
Writer
The last ordinary moments between two guys in love.
The News Today
Director
The last ordinary moments between two guys in love.
Signature Move
Writer
A secret new romance with Alma forces Zaynab to confront her complicated relationship with her recently widowed mother. In this coming-of-age Muslim melodrama, Zaynab copes by taking up Lucha-style wrestling.
Spunkle
Director
A man contemplates fatherhood when his older sister and her free-spirited wife ask him to be the sperm donor and uncle of their baby.
Sugarhiccup
Director
A neurotic journalist searches through digital clues trying to decipher a mysterious message left by her fiancée right before she disappears for the next 48 sleepless hours.