Screen Australia, Somedae Pictures, Sapphic Investment Film Fund and Infinite Pies are thrilled to announce the online premiere of the seven-episode Australian web series, Love Me Lex. Love Me Lex is now available to watch online as a premium early release via the sapphic streaming platform Lesflicks.
With principal funding from Screen Australia, and additional funding from The Sapphic Investment Film Fund (SapphicIFF) and Infinite Pies Productions, Love Me Lex was filmed in and around Perth, Western Australia in 2022. The series consists of seven episodes, averaging a run time of eight – nine minutes each, and has screened at various film festivals across Australia and the United States, including WA Made Film Festival and Revelation International Film Festival.
The brainchild of Sanja Katich and produced by Stephanie Davis of Somedae Pictures, Love Me Lex is a new lesbian web series that follows the titular character Lex as she looks for love in her 40s.
Looking for love in your 40s is not easy when the lesbian dating pool is more like a muddy puddle! School teacher Lex Adamson (Sarah Light) is about to find that out the hard way when she steps back into the dating world and, to her surprise, finds there is more than one person vying for her attention! But who will she choose?
Will it be “off-limits” Kat (Deanna Cooney) or can Lex recapture the magic with her ex, Miranda (Susan Stevenson)? Or will Lex remain single forever?
All will be revealed over seven episodes of drama, comedy, and plenty of romance that audiences say is “Full of heart” and “Almost made me believe I could dip my toe back into the dating pool.”
The series was written and directed by Sanja Katich, an openly queer woman who has spent much of her career writing about Australian queer shows such as Janet King and Wentworth for websites like LOTL, Outnews and Curve Magazine. Love Me Lex is Katich’s largest project to date, with production by a majority female cast and crew, who want to shine a light on the traditionally underrepresented later-life lesbian.
Sanja Katich iter/director) said:
“Having spoken with Janet King’s Marta Dusseldorp, and Wentworth’s Danielle Cormack about their involvement in tired and overused dead-lesbian storylines, I felt it was time that queer women got to see a sapphic story with a happy ending. We deserve that! Love Me Lex was born from these discussions and the desire to see older women represented on screen. This is why, together with Stephanie Davis of Somedae Pictures, we teamed up with The Home of Sapphic Stories on Screen (Lesflicks) to host the series. A match made in heaven, Lesflicks and Love Me Lex share one simple goal – more representation for queer women!”
As part of the partnership with Lesflicks, the entire series of Love Me Lex was released on September 1, 2023.
All seven episodes of Love Me Lex are currently available as a premium rental for AU$22* (£10.99 GBP / €12.90 EUR / $14 USD)*. Viewers are granted access to the entire series for a 3-day period. There will also be an exclusive video from the cast and crew. Premium access is currently available to pre-purchase on the Lesflicks website
The series will be released at the lower, standard rental price of AU$11.90 * (£5.99 GBP / €7.00 EUR / $7.50 USD *) on October 5th. At this time, viewers will also be able to rent episodes individually for AU$3.95 * (£1.99 GBP / €2.30 EUR / $2.50 USD)*.
Love Me Lex will be available on Lesflicks on subscription from 11 October 2023, with each episode released weekly. A monthly subscription costs AU$17.90 (£8.99 GBP / €10.50 EUR / $11.50 USD)* per month and gives you unlimited access to watch over and over. You can watch via a browser or one of their apps (available on most smart devices). You can also download content to watch offline.
*Non-GBP£ prices are based on the conversation rates from GBP, as Lesflicks is a UK-run platform. Local prices may vary depending on location and conversion rate at the time of transaction. Check out conversion rates at xe.com.
