Seeking Simone

Seeking Simone - The Web Series

Seeking Simone is a lesbian web series about online dating. Follow the adventures of Simone Selkin as she dates her way through gay Toronto!

Season 2 is now over - stay tuned for news on what's next for Seeking Simone!

Seeking Simone at Inside Out Film Festival!

Well, we've been sitting on THIS news for a few weeks and now we can share it with you!

We're super thrilled to announce that our very own Seeking Simone will be screened at the Inside Out Film Festival in Toronto next month! Woooo! Champagne! Drag queens!! Queer film FTW!!

One of our Season 2 episodes will be screened as part of the Local Heroes program on Thursday, May 24th. You can get tickets started May 3rd, so mark your calendars. We're pretty excited about our film festival debut - it's an honour to be included in this festival, where so many of our favourite queer films have been presented. Yay gay!

Check out the Inside Out website or "like" the Inside Out Facebook page. Hope to see you there!

Ep 2.5, now with Subtitles Italiano Style!

Fantastic Fio, who offered to translated Ep 2.5: Leslie into Italian, has delivered - just in time for your Easter visit to the Pope! Now when you accidentally end up on a date with an Italian gentleman, you'll know how to let him down easy.

Ep 2.5 with Italian subtitles

Huge thanks to Fio for jumping in and volunteering her time to translate this episode. Molte grazie!!

AWOP Radio Interview with Renée and Rose

The lovely ladies of AWOP Radio were kind enough to interview Team Simone on their podcast last weekend and THEN they were SUPER kind and sent us an MP3 of our interview for our site! How awesome is that?? Super awesome! 

If you want to listen in, just mouse over the "AWOP Radio Seeking Simone" thing below. When you mouse over it, you'll see a wee ">" button. You hit that button...and there will some hot interview action. 

 

AWOP Radio Seeking Simone

 

AWOP hosts Perry, Kim G. and Allie were hilarious and we loved chatting with them. They had a lot of great music on their show last week and, of course, a lot of interesting discussion around the issues of the day. Definitely check out the whole episode and stay tuned for future podcasts. Thanks, AWOP Radio!

 

Simone Creators on A World of Progress Radio - Sunday, March 25!

Hey, Simone fans! Ready to get crazy progressive on a Sunday night? Wooo! So are we!!

Simone creators Renée and Rose will be chatting with the fine folks of A World of Progress Radio on their podcast Sunday, March 25th! Thanks to Perry McNeil, a.k.a. Momma Politico, for inviting us to join them this week.

I *believe* podcast starts at 6:30PM Eastern - we'll be joining them live at around 8PM Eastern to talk about Seeking Simone, how awesome lesbian webseries are, what's coming up next for us and whatever other progressive topics leap to mind. Be sure and tune in to AWOP Radio on Sunday!

And if you miss it, no worries - we'll post a link here after the fact. Unless we REALLY embarrass ourselves.

Simone's Friday Poll: St. Paddy's Day fun!

Faith and begorrah, it's St. Patrick's Day tomorrow! Squeeze a wee leprechaun (in this case, "leprechaun" is a cutesy euphemism for "boobs")! Count your lucky charms! Kiss people who are Irish! Find a pot of gold, if you know what I mean!

St. Patrick's Day holds a special place in Rose's heart, because a) she's Irish and b) it's her late grandfather's birthday. AND HIS NAME WAS PATRICK. Did we just BLOW YOUR MIND?

We plan to spend St. Paddy's day wearing green, enjoying green cocktails and avoiding the downtown core.

How about you, lads and lasses?

Ep 2.5 with German Subtitles!

Subtitles in German? Ja, ja, we haz them, thanks to the lovely Saskia, who volunteered her time to translate the script. Thanks to her, you can now let your German suitors know - in their native tongue - that "If I liked the dick, I'd be all up in this!" Watch and learn!

Episode 2.5 in German

Vielen Dank, Saskia!!

Simone's Renée Olbert Nominated for Indie Intertube Awards! Wooo!

As if the Oscars weren't glamour enough this weekend!

We at Team Simone were thrilled when we got the word that Simone herself, the lovely Renée Olbert, was nominated for not one, but TWO Indie Intertube Awards! Wooo! Break out the party hats and also, the vodka!

Renée was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy for Seeking Simone (alongside such other comedic geniuses as - gasp! swoon! - Emma Caulfield from the hilarious Bandwagon).

AND she was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for Good People in Love. Kudos, Renée!! Such a talented young lady.

The Indie Intertube Awards nominations are chock full of webseries goodness (including several nods to one of our fellow Canadian LGBT webseries, the awesome Out With Dad) - and there are many amazing shows for you to check out.

To find out more about the awards (live! March 11th), visit the Indie Intertube site. And many thanks for the love, Indie Intertube!! And Simone was worried she'd never find love online...

 

 

Simone's Friday Poll: Are you all excited for the Oscars?

Here at Team Simone, we are a little divided about awards shows. Some of us LIVE FOR THEM - and some of us...do not.

Anyway, the half of Team Simone who loves awards shows just reminded the other half of Team Simone that the Oscars are on this very weekend! Which prompts us to ask you folks - are you all excited for the Oscars?

Ep 2.5 Behind the Scenes Photos

CLIFFHANGER! HAHAHAAA!

Oh, Episode 2.5. I believe that the date with Leslie was only our second day of shooting but everyone got into the swing of things pretty fast. HUGE thanks to the wonderful folks at Fire on the East Side who let us film in their beautiful upstairs space.

An actor prepares...to tweet sadly about Buffy. A lot of comedy GOLD resulted from Simone's sad-tweeting shoot but we ended up only being able to use a fraction of it, mainly because we didn't want Sarah McLachlan or Joss Whedon to sue us. 

We tried to get David Bronfman to take his shirt off but couldn't get him drunk enough. That's what happens on these low-budget pictures.

Danny, Naomi and Jennifer set the scene for Simone's hot date.

Finger guns!! We had SEVEN extras on this shoot - lucky number seven. And they were all brilliant!

Chillin' at the bar, pretending to be cruising.

It can be boring on set, so Erin was smart to bring her knitting. Not just a pretty face!

Queeries Mag editor, the always dapper Suzy Malik - check out Amee King's MUCH NICER photos of this shoot over on Queeries Mag.

Gamer nerdz - on Mac AND PC! That's love.

Taking a little direction.

Something that ended up on the cutting room floor is that at the end of the episode, as Simone and Leslie leave the restaurant, they run into "Liesl", an old friend of Leslie's. Leslie and Liesl start speaking German to each other (because Jennifer Morrison, our continuity queen, and Mike McPhaden, actor extraordinaire, both speak German). It looks like they're hitting it off and maybe Leslie's found love after all! And THEN Simone spots her MYSTERY GAL and walks away from the chattering Germans. SCENE.

Check out the rest of the photos on our Flickr page or on Facebook.

Simone's Friday Poll: Your Ideal First Date

Simone's been on a few first dates now, but not one of them has been...shall we say..."ideal". Although a few of them did work out quite nicely. Quite, quite nicely.

Over to you guys - what's your ideal first date? If you don't see it here, leave it in the comments. We "promise" we won't steal it for a future episode. "Promise".