Backstage at an all-AAPI drag show, a fledgling Chinese American drag queen prepares for a performance that will change her family forever.
BETTY ST. CLAIR the drag queen is in over her head.
In the backstage green room of an all-AAPI drag show, Betty struggles to keep her drag troupe on task. But when Betty takes the stage to host, we realize the event is being held for a small crowd of seniors at an Asian American community center. And to her shock, Betty’s own Yeh Yeh (grandfather) is in attendance!
Terrified of being recognized, Betty races backstage. Green room shenanigans escalate, threatening to derail the show.
When Betty and Candace finally begin their number, Yeh Yeh seems to recognize Betty. Reaching across barriers of language and generation, Betty and Yeh Yeh share a profound moment of seeing, and being seen by the other.
Kyle Casey Chu (AKA Panda Dulce) is a Filmmaker, Author and a founding queen of Drag Story Hour. She is currently a 2024-2025 FilmHouse Resident at SFFILM.
In 2022, far-right extremists stormed her reading in San Lorenzo, making global headlines. Based on the incident, her short screenplay, "After What Happened at the Library" won WeScreenplay, Titan Awards and SF Indie's Short Screenplay Competitions. With support from Sundance, SFFILM, Talon Entertainment, the SF Arts Commission and Skywalker Sound, the screenplay was produced and will premiere at Florida Film Festival and SF International Film Festival in April 2025.
This short is a proof-of-concept for her debut narrative feature film. The script is in an advanced draft and was workshopped at Sundance’s Trans Possibilities Intensive, Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat and Film Fatales.
Kyle's debut novel, "The Queen Bees of Tybee County" (HarperCollins, 2025), was recently optioned by Lambur Productions into a UK TV show.
Edric Young
Tim Lim (AKA Kay BeBeQueue)
San Francisco's all-AAPI Drag Troupe, "The Rice Rockettes"
