
JACOB MCKEE | USA | 2025 | 12 MIN | ENGLISH
JACOB MCKEE | USA | 2025 | 12 MIN | ENGLISH
When he receives a mysterious love note, a teenage Sherlock Holmes must step outside of his comfort zone in order to uncover the identity of his secret admirer.
Jacob McKee (he/they) is a queer filmmaker and MFA candidate at SCAD's Atlanta campus. His thesis film My Dear Watson is preparing for a 2026 festival run. His feature screenplay SPREAD 'EM was runner-up in Out on Film's 2024 Screenplay Competition and received additional recognition from the Del Shores Foundation and Atlanta Film Festival. His short ENNUI received six official selections and won Best Student Short at the Nightmare on Broad St. Film Festival.
As an LGBTQ+ artist, I'm compelled to explore the ways in which queerness has defined not only our modern era, but also the characters and stories that have lived in the zeitgeist. Imagining Holmes and Watson in the cutesy confines of something like Netflix's HEARTSTOPPER was a no-brainer; those old boys are practically begging for a romantic twist. […] It's also an opportunity, with a character as simultaneously charismatic and closed off as Sherlock Holmes, to explore the nature of what love is and how everyone can find their way to it.
Will Fangmann
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