Old Dykes

OLD DYKES is the culmination of a 40-year love story. On the day Mel visits Laurie in hospice to say goodbye, Laurie finally asks Mel to be with her — but is it too late? Time stretches and morphs throughout the day while memory and the present converge around Laurie’s request. As the two women say, or don’t say, the things they have held onto since they were eighteen, Mel must face the challenges of loving a woman only to lose her again.

Starring

Mel Lea DeLaria (Orange is The New Black, Outerlands, The Edge of Seventeen)

Laurie Christine Kellogg-Darrin (Matlock, Stranger Things)

Terri Liz Kennedy

Young Mel Rae Eubanks 

Young Laurie Camilla May

Writer / Director Ezra Rose (they/them)

Producer Zoë Andrikidis (she/her)

Co-Producers Julia Corcoran (she/her) and Maddie Racoosin (she/her)

Executive Producer Nekisa Cooper (she/her)

Associate Producer Casey Pfeifer (she/her)

Festivals and Awards

Provincetown International Film Festival Official Selection 2026

Capital City Film Festival Official Selection 2025

Portland Panorama Official Selection 2025

Roze Filmdagen Official Selection 2025

SCAD Savannah Film Festival Official Selection 2025

Appalachian Queer Film Festival Best Narrative Short 2025

Out on Film Official Selection 2025

Vancouver Queer Film Festival Official Selection 2025