Format: Webseries, 12 x 8min Episodes
Producer / Director / Editor
Aviva, Emily, Yasmina are four twenty-something lesbians from very different backgrounds. Navigating life and love in Brooklyn is never a walk in the park. But when they meet through an iPhone app ‘SameSame’, the girls realize they have much more in common than they originally thought…
Web Series, 12 x 6min
Created by Lauren Augarten
Writers: Lauren Augarten, Stephanie Begg, April Maxey, Summer Czajak
Directors: Josh Mawer, Stephanie Begg, April Maxey, Lauren Augarten
Cinematographer: Steve Perrong
WATCH SEASON 1 HERE




The project was selected to attend Big Vision Empty Wallet‘s “Diversity Kickstarter Lab” to learn about distribution and meet with potential distributors.
Sold to streamer Revry and also released on popular youtube channel One More Lesbian the series has a bit over 3.6million views.
Now in post production on season 1, this web series began as a pilot in 2013. Winning awards and developing a growing fanbase online, we crowdfunded to finish the series in 2016 and shot eleven more episodes as spring hit New York. First called ‘Scissr’, we’re now calling it SAME SAME. Along with Creator Lauren Augarten, Josh Mawer and Sumer Cejak, I directed several episodes.
The project was selected to attend Big Vision Empty Wallet‘s “Diversity Kickstarter Lab” to learn about distribution nowadays and meet with potential distributors.
It’s got some press around it now, with write-ups in The Huffington Post and Curve Magazine, and won it’s category at the New Media Film Festival Los Angeles 2014.
FESTIVALS
Winner
LGBT
NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL
Los Angeles 2014
Official Selection
NEWFEST
New York’s LGBT Film Festival 2016
Official Selection
NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL
Los Angeles 2014
Official Selection
STiFF
Seattle TRANSMEDIA & Independant FILM Festival 2016
Official Selection
BROOKLYN WEB FESTIVAL
New York 2015
PRESS KIT
LIVE INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS
San Francisco’s Swirl Radio & Webcast
Creator of a New Lesbian Web Show Scissr – Lauren Augarten Stops By To Discuss Lesbians And Scissr…Scissring…
The Girl Crowd Podcast
S1.E10 Lauren Augarten and Scissr the Series
PRESS USA
Huffington Post
Web Series, Tackles Lesbian Identity In New York City
Bitch Magazine
This Is The Summer Of Lesbian Web Series
Buzzfeed
8 Lesbian Web Series You Should Have On Your Radar
Curve Magazine
Lesbian Web Series Premieres First Episode
Autostraddle
Sara Bareilles Takes the F to 7th So She Can Scissr
Washington Post
It’s Like Grindr- For Girls
GLAAD Magazine
The GLAAD Wrap
SheWired
New Web Series Scissr Depicts 20-Something Lesbians in Brooklyn
Big Gay Picture Show
Lesbian Web Series Scissr Seeks Funding To Complete Its First Season
One More Lesbian (OML)
Opening Credits
International Press
FRANCE
Jeanne Magazine
Webséries, Des Tranches De Vie Lesbiennes å Criquer
Univers-L
Scissr une nouvelle webserie américaine centrée sur des lesbiennes dans la vingtaine
La Vie Rose
SCISSR, LA NOUVELLE WEBSÉRIE AMÉRICAINE
ISRAEL
A Wider Bridge
“Scissr,” A Lesbian Web Series
CANADA
Flurt! Magazine
Scissr: 4 Lesbians, 12 Relationships, 1 iPhone App.
SPANISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
Hay Una Lesbiana en mi Sopa
‘Scissr’: 4 lesbianas, 1 app
UK
KitschMix
4 Lesbians, 12 Relationships, 1 App = New Lesbian Series SCISSR
AUSTRALIA
LOTL Magazine
Lesbian Web Series Premieres First Episode
FILM INK Magazine

