LEZ SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT CHLOÉ ROBICHAUD’S WONDERFULLY WOMEN-CENTRED WEB SERIES

“It represents down-toearth friendship and positive energy”

Montréal-based web series Féminin/ Féminin is quietly fantastique. Brainchild of French-Canadian filmmaker Chloé Robichaud and Florence Gagnon – founder of the queer, bilingual magazine LSTW (lezspreadtheword.com) – this two-part, 16-episode drama is really quite beautiful in its prosaic, everyday depictions of a group of lez/ bi women’s intersecting lives in contemporary Canada.

Intrigued? Well, luckily for the anglophones among us, both seasons are now available with English subtitles (#biive). Tofind out more, Danielle Mustarde met the femmetastique women behind it.

CHLOÉ ROBICHAUD, CREATOR

Québécoise filmmaker Chloé Robichaud, 31,first made her name in filmmaking with the award-winning Sarah Prefers To Run in 2013 – thefirst season of Féminin/Féminin following soon after.

DIVA: Where did the initial idea for the web series come from?

CHLOÉ ROBICHAUD: Florence and I went to the same university, though we didn’t know each other well. One day, she came up to me in a bar and said, “I have an idea. I want to create a website called Lez Spread The Word and have a web series on there about women in Montréal – just friendship and positive energy.” She didn’t have anything else at that point, she just wanted to think it through together. It intrigued me. I felt a lack of representation when I was a teenager and thought, “I want some kid to see this and have what I felt I was lacking when I was younger.”