Trans-Themed Web Series “Her Story” Nabs An Emmy Nomination
The six-episode web series is the only independently produced project nominated for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, a new category this year.
BuzzFeed
By Meredith Talusan and Sarah Karlan
July 14, 2016
Her Story, a fictional web series directed by Sydney Freeland that depicts the romantic lives of trans and queer women, scored a 2016 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series on Thursday.
The Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category was newly added to the competition this year.
“We had hope, certainly, because we’ve seen incredible momentum and support to date,” series star Laura Zak told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview on Thursday. “Still, we all thought [a nomination] was pretty unlikely. If you see the other projects that were nominated, you can see the source of our caution.”
The Daily Dot had this to say…
Creators of crowdfunded transgender webseries 'Her Story' say Emmy nod is total shock
Wait, what?!
That's the feeling expressed by the two co-creators of a little-known streaming webseries on Thursday after discovering that the show had received an Emmy nomination.
Her Story, the YouTube webseries about transgender women that features a rare trans-lesbian relationship, received its first nomination. The Emmy nod in the short-form category was a victory on multiple levels: for streaming content, for the first show with a nearly an all-trans cast and crew, and for a show that aired on YouTube without any studio or corporate backing whatsoever.
Series co-creator Jen Richards, who also stars in the show, told the Daily Dot on Thursday that she got the news just before dazedly heading to a casting.
"I felt kind of stunned more than anything else," said Richards by phone. "It's just unreal, and it's enhanced by the fact that we're such an outlier in the category. I was like...how?"
Her Story hasn't just broken barriers due to the makeup of its cast and crew—largely queer and transgender women—but also because its low-budget, basically volunteer-run production. The series was crowdfunded on Indiegogo, where it raised $37,875 in September—a tiny budget millions of dollars less than most Emmy-nominated network television shows.
LA Times had this to say,
When a Web series released exclusively on YouTube nabs an Emmy nomination, as “Her Story” did on Thursday, the rise of digital and streaming platforms cannot be ignored.
If you haven’t seen Her Story do so now, they are short 10 minute videos so you can easily watch them over a cup of coffee at work.
Here is the trailer to wet your appetite,
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