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        Queer Women Connect Over Tequila, Beaver Talk
    Enjoy the hilarious meet-cute of Zaynab and Alma in an exclusive clip from SXSW film Signature Move. 
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Allison Tate is the Director of Editorial Video at Pride Media, and creates videos for The Advocate, OUT and PRIDE. She is a filmmaker, swing dancer, and enthusiastic Carol fan who works to amplify marginalized voices in media. 
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Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza, Her Story) is a 30-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian lawyer living in Chicago who begins a new romance with Alma (Sari Sanchez, Empire), a confident and vivacious Mexican-American woman. The connect over shared secrets of luchador love in this fresh and vibrant comedy directed by Jennifer Reeder. The film premieres March 11 at SXSW.

        
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