Catrina the Lesbian Witch is a live action six X 5 minute London based Queer Centric web series about 23 year old Wannabe Wiccan Catrina, who discovers that she has actual magical powers and comes from a long lineage of Female Witches.
The series is a fresh and funny look at the trials and tribulations of discovering you’re a witch, but this time from a queer perspective. It’s a supernatural comedy-drama which puts LGBTQ+ characters front and centre in the fantasy/supernatural genre.
Catrina is a 23-year-old waitress and illustrator, into everything new age from crystals to horoscopes. The series opens with Catrina’s discovery of her magical powers during a sexual encounter, and goes on to explore what it all means and why she is only just figuring out the truth about herself now.
Over the six episodes that make up Season One we follow Catrina as she discovers more about her powers and learns about witchcraft and her ancestry. The series will explore what it means to be Queer in London in 2019, as well as drawing on the current socio-cultural fascination with mysticism and the occult.
Catrina is an out and proud Lesbian and founding member of the Woke Wiccans Conscious Lifestyle Collective. Though initially delighted in her new witchy prowess, Catrina soon discovers the reality of being imbued with magical capabilities doesn’t quite live up to her expectations. Sadly transforming her actor flatmate’s loveable but infuriating ever present cat into a unicorn isn’t part of Witchcraft 101.
At the end of the season one we see Catrina faced with an ultimatum. Does she follow Aradia down the path to Wiccan Nirvana, disowning her friends and current way of life? Or does she reject her heritage and continue on the path she was happily leading.
In fact Catrina struggles to tell anyone at all about her burgeoning powers fearing her friends will not accept her anymore. She starts to see them as more of a hindrance than something to boast about, especially when her new found powers start to seriously mess up her dating life. After a mysterious woman ‘Aradia’ shows up in her life, Catrina starts to suspect that dark forces are at work, and perhaps her previously somewhat superficial appreciation of the supernatural was misguided.
Creative Team
Louise Marie Cooke
Writer, Producer and Director
Louise came of age on a diet of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and My So Called Life. It was only after watching The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola that she decided she wanted to be a filmmaker and set about making a series of ‘serious’ drama short films. After graduation her first short was the Film London supported film First Bite about a teenage girl on the cusp of sexual awakening, a dreamer character, the type consumed with Twilightesque stories (serious stuff honest, no supernatural going ons…). After this she made Siren and Pillow Talk which were both nominated for Best British Short at BAFTA qualifying festival Iris Prize. In 2017 she was funded a second time by Film London to make Breathe, a dark drama about two strangers coming together after a tragic accident. The film was released in 2018 and is currently coming to the end of its festival run. Catrina will be her first time making something a little less serious and she can’t wait for the fun and magic to begin.
Miranda Horn
Writer, Producer and lead actress
Miranda has always thought of herself as a Witch. Maybe it all harks back to the ceremonial burning of pictures of her ex at sixteen, don’t blame her blame her Scorpio rising, whose to say but her films always seem to unintentionally focus on an otherworldly power at hand. Her first film which she shot one afternoon in her parents toilet won ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Story’ prize at the Elstree Film design and Creative England sponsored ‘A sense of Hope’ competition. She has since upgraded from toilet to confessional booth where her second self penned film Confessional was shot by Harry Baker – Cinematographer for Catrina, and directed by Louise. In fact it was on one of her first films out of drama school that Miranda met Louise, and having fallen in love with her aesthetic and way of working she knew that when she finally got round to finishing her short film about lesbian Mermaids (coming soon after Catrina) that Louise would be the only person she would want to direct it. Louise approached Miranda with the idea to collaborate on Catrina and she jumped at the chance.
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