Ryder Dunagan & Tara Jenkins • Bringing Authentic LGBTQIA+ Stories to the Big Screen

LGBTQIA+ filmmakers Ryder Dunagan & Tara Jenkins persevere
through the struggles of bringing a passion project to life in
order to unleash authentic queer representation on screen.


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Ryder Dunagan is a proud bisexual trans man working toward more
accurate LGBTQ+ representation in media, through his passion for
screenwriting and acting. When not in production, Ryder works as
a freelance IT Manager and web designer, and engages in his
hobbies of Dungeons & Dragons and hiking. Since moving to LA
in 2018, Ryder has worked on numerous productions, including The
L Word: Gen Q, Netflix’s ‘The Upshaws’, and Nickelodeon’s ‘Danger
Force’. After meeting Tara Jenkins during a USC student film and
becoming fast friends, Tara and Ryder began working on Day-Bi-Day
in 2018, and in 2021 the script was selected as a Second Rounder
in the Script Competition at the 2021 Austin Film Festival.


Instagram/Twitter: @CuddlyRyder


Series Instagram:@DayBiDaySeries


Tara Jenkins (she/her) is a queer multi-hyphenate based out of
Los Angeles. She is passionate about giving a platform to stories
from the margins. She is a proud member of IATSE Local 600 and a
staff writer at American Cinematographer magazine. She has her
MFA in Film Production from USC, where she fell in love with
camera work and also met her writing partner, Ryder Dunagan.
Together, they have worked on Day Bi Day for the last four years,
including making it to the second round of AFF with the script in
2021. Tara’s work as a writer and director won her film Lemon
Cake the Audience Award at the Da Vinci International Film
Festival in 2020.


Instagram: @TaraJenkinsFilmsThings


Website: www.JenkinsTara.com


Day-Bi-Day follows Seb and Josie, a pair of 20-something best
friends who share struggles, secrets, and a queen sized mattress
while attempting to find love and success in the wild world of
behind the scenes Hollywood. Tara and Ryder began working on the
script in 2018, and attempted to shoot the series themselves but
an unfortunate hard drive crash marked that attempt as a failure.
Then, in the midst of the pandemic they made contact with a
production company that expressed interest in producing the
series before subsequently ghosting them. Finally, at the end of
2022, Tara and Ryder decided to self-fund the project and after
four years of having this script, successfully shot Day-Bi-Day in
January of 2023 with the help of an amazing team who worked
tirelessly over the course of 6 days to make it happen. Now they
are diving into post production and working to get the series
ready to share with the world.


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