Pete Barma - "Pete Plays Tribeca" - Her Autobiographical Short Film Selected By the Tribeca Film Festival

“I’m not inherently brave. I was very much in a life that,
outside of being queer, had checked off all the American dream
boxes: job, child, house, partner that loved me. It was a good
relationship, we paid our bills,  I mowed the yard … had
cookouts. And then I met my partner (Bret) at a birthday party. I
quit my job without a plan … It was in that moment that I was
either gonna live authentically or not live very well, despite
what on the outside looked really lovely.” Pete Barma, with her
wife Bret, recently premiered their latest short film, Pete, at
the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. For this lifelong educator
and storyteller, the struggle to live authentically, to love
fully and to grow into the best version of herself led her to
take an extraordinarily bold leap of faith. That swan dive
resulted in Pete finding not only the true love of her life but
also a new career as a highly talented filmmaker. Her, short
animated, autobiographical film, Pete, tells the story of a
little girl named Pete who just wanted to play baseball with the
boys, despite the noise coming from "concerned" parents who
didn't approve of a girl like this in the mid 1970's. Whoopie
Goldberg, one of Tribeca's curators of animated shorts, fell in
love with Pete  when she watched it with her granddaughter
who also loved it. Petey's wife, Bret Parker, co-founder of
Artfarm Productions, is a veteran filmmaker with 26 years at
Pixar.  In 2019, Parker and Pete directed their first
feature documentary, Through The Windows. Pete is their second
film with many more on the way.

Click Here for more information about "Pete" and Artfarm
Productions. 


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