> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://bklyner.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# “The Slope” Takes Park Slope Lesbian Culture to the Big Screen
- URL: https://bklyner.com/the-slope-takes-park-slope-lesbian-culture-to-the-big-screen-parkslopestoop/
- Published: 2012-07-02T14:22:45.000Z
- Updated: 2012-07-02T14:22:45.000Z
- Author: Rachel Silberstein
- Tags: The Slope, #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Slope-Show-533x333.jpg "The Slope Show")

*via [The Slope](http://theslopeshow.com/about/?ref=bklyner.com)*

If you haven’t been watching [The Slope](http://theslopeshow.com/?ref=bklyner.com), a web series spoofing “hilariously shallow” Park Slope lesbians, you should maybe start. (Confession: I haven’t been watching The Slope. I am maybe definitely going to start. Because the Brooklyn Paper [just announced](http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/27/dtg%5Ftheslope%5F2012%5F07%5F05%5Fbk.html?ref=bklyner.com) that the The Slope, which made The Guardian’s list of “[Top 25 Web Shows You Need to See](http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/may/12/25-web-shows-you-must-see?ref=bklyner.com)” and has been called a mix of “great art” and “trash” (the best possible combo), is about to make the jump to the big screen.

The show — and now the movie — is the baby of co-creaters/writers/stars Ingrid Jungermann and Desiree Akhavan, who’ve turned their own experiences as queer women in Park Slope into a kind of semi-autobiographical satire.

Recently, she [laid it out](http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazine/Web-Articles-2012/The-Slope-Another-Lesbian-Web-Series/?ref=bklyner.com) for Curve Magazine:

> …I realized that I was a cliché through and through. Like from the time I started dating Ingrid to when we started working each other’s co-op shifts. I just had to laugh at myself. I kept seeing little versions of me walking around the street and thinking this is insane. We are all such a joke, but in a great way.

And according to Akhavan, the movie’s going to be even Park Slope-ier than the show. She promises cameos by neighborhood staples like Grand Army Plaza, Gorilla Coffee, and Mission Dolores.

Shooting’s scheduled to start this spring for under $20,000 (help that happen! Donate [here](http://theslopeshow.com/donate/?ref=bklyner.com)).