“I’m not inherently brave. I was very much in a life that, outside of being queer, had checked off all the American dream boxes: job, child, house, partner that loved me. It was a good relationship, we paid our bills, I mowed the yard … had cookouts. And then I met my partner (Bret) at a birthday party. I quit my job without a plan … It was in that moment that I was either gonna live authentically or not live very well, despite what on the outside looked really lovely.” Pete Barma, with her wife Bret, recently premiered their latest short film, Pete, at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. For this lifelong educator and storyteller, the struggle to live authentically, to love fully and to grow into the best version of herself led her to take an extraordinarily bold leap of faith. That swan dive resulted in Pete finding not only the true love of her life but also a new career as a highly talented filmmaker. Her, short animated, autobiographical film, Pete, tells the story of a little girl named Pete who just wanted to play baseball with the boys, despite the noise coming from "concerned" parents who didn't approve of a girl like this in the mid 1970's. Whoopie Goldberg, one of Tribeca's curators of animated shorts, fell in love with Pete when she watched it with her granddaughter who also loved it. Petey's wife, Bret Parker, co-founder of Artfarm Productions, is a veteran filmmaker with 26 years at Pixar. In 2019, Parker and Pete directed their first feature documentary, Through The Windows. Pete is their second film with many more on the way.
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