ten-year stand

feature film • in development

synopsis:

On the night of their college graduation, Nora and Casey meet. Then hook-up. Then spend the next ten years trying very hard to not do it again.

As careers, relationships, and life plans pull them in different directions, they keep finding their way back to each other—first as exes (sort of), then as reluctant acquaintances, then as best friends. But as the years pass, both are forced to confront a question neither wants to answer: what if the love of your life isn't the person you can't live without, but the person who's been there all along, challenging your worldview and occasionally driving you completely insane?

TEN-YEAR STAND is a funny, grounded, universal love story that explores how timing, fear, and the stories we tell ourselves can keep us from the lives we actually want.

I've always loved Nora Ephron's romantic comedies, especially WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. I can watch that movie over and over because the relationship is earned. Harry and Sally don't end up together because they're destined to—they get there through years of friendship, bad timing, wrong partners, hurt feelings, and repeatedly finding their way back to each other.

I've always wanted to see that kind of love story centered on two women. Not a coming out story. Not a tragedy. Just a funny, messy, deeply human romantic comedy that happens to be about a queer relationship.

I'm drawn to stories about people who desperately want to connect but keep getting in their own way. The moments where someone says the wrong thing, makes dumb decisions, and still somehow stumbles into growth anyway.

TEN-YEAR STAND combines so many things I love: character-driven comedy, emotionally messy relationships, and a love story that unfolds over years instead of weeks.

At its core, this is a film about timing—how the right person can arrive at the wrong moment, and how sometimes it takes a decade to become the version of yourself that's ready for something real. While anyone who’s ever had terrible timing can see themselves in Nora and Casey, queer audiences rarely get to see themselves at the center of a grounded, hopeful romantic comedy. It’s the kind of movie I’ve always wanted to make, and the kind of movie I’ve always wanted to see.