NBC News

Queer films at this year’s Tribeca Festival will ‘go deeper’ than coming out stories

“One of the festival highlights is the world premiere of "Three Headed Beast," the first feature film from filmmaking duo Fernando Andrés and Tyler Rugh, both 24-year-old Austin, Texas, natives. The poetic drama delves into the relationship of a Texas-based, long-term bisexual couple in an open relationship. The pair is on the verge of closing their relationship when its foundation starts to show its cracks.”

The Village Voice

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Tribeca Film Fest

“Better, and certainly less ambiguous in its thrust, is Fernando Andrés and Tyler Rugh’s Three Headed Beast, an ingenious micro-movie about three bi Gen-Z Texans (Jacob Schatz, Dani Hurtado, and Cody Shook) vexed by their devoted entanglement in open relationships.”

OrcaSound

Tribeca 2022 Feature Three Headed Beast

“This is one of the buzziest titles in the competition as it was made for a microbudget by a two-person crew of 23-year-olds in Austin, Texas and has still garnered acclaim such as “one of the most confident and assertive debuts in American independent film in recent memory” by Tribeca programmers and “hypnotically beautiful; the work of a real f***ing talent” by Sundance/SXSW-winning filmmaker Jim Cummings.”

IndieWire

Tribeca 2022: 8 LGBTQ Films We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Festival

“Austin-based co-directors Fernando Andrés and Tyler Rugh make their feature debut with an lyrical erotic drama about the various entanglements behind one open relationship. Shot and set in their hometown, the film doesn’t over-explain the details of unconventional relationship structures, presenting the film’s various intimacies with a straightforward perspective. This sophisticated sensibility extends to the visual storytelling as well, which grounds its more experimental cinematic choices with naturalistic performances.”

The Austin Chronicle

Austin Filmmakers Take Their Three Headed Beast to Tribeca

"If there's a moral to be taken from the fact that Austin-made sexual drama Three Headed Beast is getting its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, it's to never give up.

Directors Fernando Andrés and Tyler Rugh almost did. After all, they knew it would be a tough sell: an experimental and sexually frank story of two people in an open relationship, with no dialogue for most of its duration.”

Frameline46

Three Headed Beast

“Erotically charged and inventively shot, Three Headed Beast is about love, lust, and self-discovery as a non-traditional, long-term couple in an open relationship learn how to communicate their desires in the scorching Texas heat. Ruminating on the complexities of sex in the expanding modern rulebook, the film——fresh off its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival——follows a young couple in Austin struggling to communicate their needs.”

The Premier Playhouse

Cabaret: Behind The Scenes With Our Intimacy Coordinator

“[Alicia’s] services have been very valuable for our upcoming production of Cabaret in making sure all of our actors feel safe and comfortable on stage together.”

Dakota News Now

“Cabaret” playing at the Premiere Playhouse

“Since 1966 “Cabaret” has been a musical for the ages tackling the beginning of World War II and love. Artistic Director of the Premiere Playhouse and the Director of the show Oliver Mayes joined us today to tell us more about this unique musical.”