Cece’s Interlude
Narrative Feature
Project Type: Narrative Feature
Project Status: Post-Production
Director/Writer/Actress: Tee Park
Producer(s): Mireia Vilanova, Alsea Diana, Serena Hughes, Tee Park
“Cece’s Interlude follows the journey of a young transgender woman unexpectedly facing pregnancy, as she navigates addiction, unstable relationships, and the daunting prospect of motherhood, ultimately raising questions about identity, resilience, and the complexities of parental responsibility.”
LOGLINE
Documentary filmmaker Sophie-Anne has found the perfect subject in Cece. She is transgender, BIPOC, Los Angeles nightlife royalty - and 9 weeks pregnant.
SYNOPSIS
Filmmaker Sophie-Anne documents the daily life of Cece, a transgender girl who’s supposedly pregnant. Cece is a typical 20 something who likes to party and has little plans for the future, let alone having a baby. Though Cece finds her pregnancy and the newfound attention entertaining, she plans on getting an abortion.
Three men are regulars in Cece’s life; Evan, her sugar daddy, Jordan, a sleazy photographer, and Bari, a low level drug dealer who’s in love with Cece. The paternity test reveals Bari to be the father, and together the pair head over to Planned Parenthood for Cece’s scheduled abortion.
But because of the unprecedented, and inexplicable, nature of the pregnancy, the doctors decide they cannot safely perform the procedure on Cece. And just like that, Cece decides to carry out the pregnancy and start her journey into motherhood - an experience that will forever change her and Sophie Anne’s lives. .
MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT
Cece’s Interlude follows a troubled young mother and an overstepping documentarian. It’s a story about bias, motherhood, and predatory gaze. Cece was pulled from my very own experiences. She’s a 20 something Asian trans girl with little goals in life, she has horrible taste in men, she struggles with substance abuse. Cece doesn’t try to be a shining example of the LGBT+ community, she simply exists as herself. She’s deliberately portrayed as a girl’s girl, an everywoman; except that she’s transgender, and that she’s pregnant.
Cece’s Interlude is a satire of the media's long standing predatory practice of unfair portrayal of queer subjects. Historically we haven’t had the agency to tell our own narratives, and the few chances we get at representation we’re often made into mockery or a sob story. Through this film I was able to turn this tradition on its head by bringing it to its logical extreme. This film is my attempt to understand my intersectional identities, and how I can use my practice to enrich my community.
We’re living through a time of unprecedented attack on both the transgender community and women’s autonomy. An institutional assault on one marginalized body is an assault on everyone, and this film argues this by combining the two issues together into one highly unlikely pregnancy of a transgender woman. Now is not just the right time to tell this story, but I’m afraid is the only time to tell it.
Meet The Filmmakers
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Bernadette Wegenstein
Director, Writer, Actress, and Producer
Tee Park is a filmmaker originally from Seoul, Korea. A trans woman of immigrant experience, Park’s work explores alienation, unconventional bonds, and flawed female protagonists.
Her short film Winter Insect, Summer Flower premiered at Slamdance in 2022 and is currently screening as part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Her second short film, 100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu, which she wrote, was selected to be a part of Indeed Rising Voices S.2.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022, before screening at numerous Oscar-qualifying festivals including Outfest, Palm Springs ShortFest, Urbanworld, Hollyshorts, among others. Park is a current Sundance TAAF fellow, a Sundance Trans Possibilities fellow, a USC screenwriting graduate, and a proud SoCal girl.
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Mireia Vilanova
Producer
Mireia Vilanova is an animation and live action producer and executive from Barcelona based in Los Angeles.
Her work has been featured in festivals all over the world, including Tribeca, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs and Outfest, and has been supported by Sundance, Film Independent, NALIP, Women in Film, among others. She currently serves as Producer and Director of Development at the boutique animation studio Cartuna, where she oversees projects for Nickelodeon, MTV, CMT and Comedy Central, among others, and has been fortunate to work on some of the world's greatest animation franchises, including SpongeBob, Dora the Explorer, and Monster High.
As an independent producer in the live action space, she is currently in post production on three feature films set for release in 2025. In 2024, she was awarded the Berlinale Talent Highlight Award for her film “Silence Sometimes”.
Mireia is a proud member of the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). She is a Sundance Producers Lab Fellow, Berlinale Talent, PGA Create Fellow, and Film Independent Project Involve Fellow.
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Alsea Diana
Producer/Editor
Alsea Diana is a filmmaker and writer originally from rural Oregon. After studying film at Boston University she relocated to California where she became deeply involved in the fields of arts advocacy and media representation, eventually serving as Manager & Interim Director of Frameline Distribution, one of the oldest and largest distributor of LGBTQ films in the world. In 2021 she returned her focus to the creative side of the industry, determined to put some of the theory she had been preaching into practice herself.
In 2023 she wrote and directed the anthology horror film Three Dead Cowboys for Sandaled Kid Productions and V Channels Media as part of a slate of micro-budget genre films showcasing emerging filmmakers, set to premiere on The CW App in November 2024. Her other recent film works include the short doc DOWN OVER UP THE STREET featuring Brontez Purnell and the experimental feature Peregrine Falcon, releasing in 2025.
Your Help
CECE’S INTERLUDE is a fiscally sponsored project of Cinematography for Actors, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation will be tax-deductible!