About the Event
Join us for a special advance preview and Filmmaker's Q&A session of Lesbian Space Princess on August 29 and wear your favourite shade of purple to celebrate Wear It Purple Day at Palace Nova Cinemas Eastend. Writers/Directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese will be chatting with you after the film, so don't miss it!
This award-winning Aussie animation follows the introverted space princess Saira on a laugh-out-loud adventure through the far reaches of gay space, featuring the voice talents of Shabana Azeez, Aunty Donna, Kween Kong, Gemma Chua-Tran and Richard Roxburgh.
Lesbian Space Princess celebrates tenacity, self-love, resilience and queer storytelling, also championed by the Wear it Purple Day movement.
Wear it Purple Day is an international movement which demonstrates to LGBQTIA+SB young people that they are celebrated and respected, and strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people.
On 29 August 2025, ‘Wear it Purple Day’ will unite LGBTQIA+SB young people and allies to shine a glorious light on the thousands of schools, community organisations, universities, and workplaces that are coming together to create a more inclusive future for people across Australia.
A laugh-out-loud adventure through the far reaches of queer outer space, Lesbian Space Princess showcases the incredible talents of South Australian writers/directors, Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs.
Daughter to the flamboyant lesbian Queens of Planet Clitopolis, introverted Princess Saira is devastated when her bounty-hunter girlfriend, Kiki, suddenly breaks up with her for being too needy.
After Kiki is kidnapped by forgotten incels of the future, the Straight White Maliens, Saira must leave the comforts of gay space to deliver their ransom: her royal labrys (the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind). Only problem is… she doesn’t have it!
With just a 24-hour window to get her labrys and save Kiki, Princess Saira finds herself on an inter-gay-lactic journey of self-discovery that includes encounters with a problematic spaceship and a new-found friendship with gay-pop runaway Willow.
An animated comedy like no other, Lesbian Space Princess is a riotous, candy-coloured joy from start to finish: a locally made animation by emerging creatives that embraces LGBTQIA+ and culturally diverse voices, on and off-screen.