A.C. Lamberty is a Gemini, a George Michael superfan, and a Los Angeles-based filmmaker.
About A.C.
A.C. Lamberty is a Minnesotan filmmaker now residing in Los Angeles. He has received top honors from film festivals across the United States, including finalist in the Hollyshorts Film Festival Screenplay Competition, finalist in the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund, Best Short Screenplay at the QueerWrites Festival and the Omaha Film Festival, semi-finalist at the Nashville Film Festival, and official selection for the Annapolis Film Festival’s inaugural pitch competition. Lamberty was also a 2022 Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices screenwriting fellow. Lamberty’s short films have screened at prestigious LGBT film festivals NewFest and Roze Filmdagen, and have been featured in arthouse cinema events from Cinema Darlings and Loquacious Collective. He is currently the co-host of Feminist Frequency Radio’s podcast MACHOS: FULLY LOADED, a cultural commentary podcast about masculinity in cinema. Above all, Lamberty aims to create work that subverts traditional notions of representation and puts queer sex and sexuality at the forefront.
His favorite George Michael song is “A Different Corner.”
Work
Experimental short film. A young woman’s comedy routine goes awry when she starts asking questions that reveal more of herself than she or her audience might be ready for.
Written by and starring Sadie Sieroty. Produced by Jen Masi. Cinematography by Ashleigh Coffelt. Edited by Deijah Lee-Carroll. Directed by A.C. Lamberty.
Premiered November 2022 at the Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Am I Crazy Do You Love Me
2021
Miss Teen Dairy Minnesota
2020
Narrative short film screenplay. A transgender teen competes against her ruthless younger sister in their rural town’s annual dairy farming pageant.
Winner, Best Short Screenplay, QueerWrites. Finalist, 2020 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund. Finalist, 2020 Hollyshorts Film Festival Screenplay Competition.
A Beginner’s Guide to Hanky Code
2019
Experimental short film. A parody of 1950s educational videos, the buxom Dr. Beverly Daggett-Smits from the H.A.N.K.Y. Institute educates the viewer on an enduring queer tradition: the hanky code.
Starring Grace Condon. Produced by Jen Masi. Cinematography by Ashleigh Coffelt. Written, directed, and edited by A.C. Lamberty.
Premiered March 2019 at Loquacious Collective’s Hoe Trip showcase. Official selection, 2019 NewFest. Official selection, 2019 Rose FilmDagen.
Honey and Jerome Forever!
2018
Narrative short film. Part-time drag queen, part-time hitman Honey Velvet receives her latest hit: her drug-dealing boyfriend.
Starring Deity Blair, Kevin O. Peterson, Zephry Wright, and Nolan Spencer. Produced by Grace Condon. Cinematography by Bobby Li. Edited by Deijah Lee-Carroll. Written and directed by A.C. Lamberty.
Premiered May 2018 at Boston University. Official selection, 2020 Beloit International Film Festival.