Nicholas Molencupp & Cameron Moir on premiere of romantic dramedy In Between

7th September 2026 Bryce Quartz

Queer romantic dramedy In Between premieres at the Out on Film festival on September 26th, get the details and more from Nicholas Molencupp & Cameron Moir below!

Last November, we covered the fundraising campaign for a new queer romantic dramedy film called In Between that follows the story of a husky man named Nick on a journey looking for love in others and within himself.

Almost a year later, the film is fully produced with a stellar cast and crew behind it, and will be premiering at the historic Out on Film festival in Atlanta, GA, the same city the film was shot in.

Based on his own experiences and feelings, Nicholas Molencupp wrote the script, launched the fundraising campaign, helped cast and produce it, and also stars as the main character too.

In Between sits in a register queer romantic cinema has mostly skipped. Nick is in his thirties, gay, husky, and finally on the receiving end of attention from the kind of man the genre normally hands to leaner protagonists.

The film is what happens after he gets that attention, what happens when he loses it, and what happens when he stops trying to be a smaller version of himself in order to be loved out loud.

Nick’s love life is a loop of first dates, last texts, and loud disappointment. As a bigger gay man, he has learned to laugh off rejection before it can sting.

Then comes Beau, confident, magnetic, British, and for a moment everything Nick thought he wanted. But when Beau’s shame about being seen in public with him surfaces, Nick is forced to confront why he keeps attracting the wrong guy.

I am super excited for this film to premiere, and know that it will resonate with many of you reading and beyond.

I had the privilege of chatting with Nicholas and Cameron about the making of the film, details on its premiere at the Out on Film festival in Atlanta, and so much more. Check it out below!

Bryce Quartz: Hey there, Nicholas and Cameron! Thanks for joining me. How are you both doing this week?

Nicholas Molencupp: So far so good, can’t complain. Busy, busy.

Cameron Moir: Yeah, definitely, definitely busy, but I think I’d rather have it that way.

Bryce: Busy can be good, and I know you’re both busy with all the fun stuff coming up!

Cameron: I feel like Nick and I, and probably you as well; we’re those people that are just constantly going, going, going, you know?

Bryce: You’re exactly right, and I don’t want to stop. I’m a workaholic, but it’s good too.

On to the first question. Can you both tell us how you met?

Cameron: So Nick and I share the same agent in Atlanta, and they posted about Nick’s Indiegogo campaign for the film. I looked at it and thought Nick’s story was really beautiful. It really spoke to me, and as he talked about the movie, I thought to myself “oh, there’s a role in there for me, and I love what he’s doing.”

So I wrote him and asked if I could audition for the film. I also told him that I’ve produced in the past and that I might be able to help because I saw the budget was quite low.

Well, sure enough, I did get to audition and was welcomed on board. The rest is kind of history. I managed to bring in my contacts and my network to just keep building it up.

It’s a long story, but the journey of the film, how we got the funding and everything, it all ended up working out perfectly.

Nicholas: Yeah, I mean, pretty much I had posted my fundraising video to launch the fundraising campaign on September 26th, 2025. I think within 4 days, I got a DM through my website from Cameron just being like “hey, I saw this online, I’m very interested, let’s connect and talk about it.”

Sure enough, I auditioned him, and Jules and I loved him for the role of Beau. Then we took him up on the producing experience and offer that he had. It pretty much just snowballed from there.

And that’s really the little origin story of us.

Bryce: Oh my God, that’s almost a year ago today. Can you believe it? Y’all have both come so far with the movie.

Cameron: It’s almost been a year.

Nicholas: Fun fact: our world premiere at the Out on Film festival is on September 26th, 2026, which is exactly one year to the day that I launched the fundraiser for this film.

Bryce: Oh, that is so crazy. It’s like meant to be.

Nicholas: It is kismet, right?

Cameron: A lot of things with this film have fallen into place perfectly. I have produced other movies in the past, and this has just been amazing. People just got on board with this so much, making it way easier than the other work I’ve done. It’s all moved crazy fast.

So I do think there is a lot of kismet kind of energy, and I love that. Like, Nick knows I like to move at a mile a minute, but like, that doesn’t mean that the world always does that. So I really think things have come together for this film.

People have been excited about it. Like, the Out on Film festival is really excited about it. I think I just wanted this story to come out as soon as possible. Nick’s story, seeing a protagonist like Nick, and this film will help people. I truly believe that. So I couldn’t be happier that we’re like steamrolling ahead.

Bryce: I want to also mention and highlight that you have a great team behind the film that’s helped with everything. Nick, you also put on a lot of hats too behind the scenes and on camera for the film.

Can you tell me more about everyone who’s involved in the production of the film?

Nicholas: Of course! So obviously, first and foremost, there’s my co-director and producer, Juli-Ann De Barros. So she was the first person that I called back around August of last year when I was wanting to jump into creating the film, so she came on board.

I definitely knew since I was starring in the film that I also couldn’t be the full director. I told her that I needed somebody I could trust that can really like hone in on the vision while I’m in front of the camera. She loved the story and she hopped in immediately.

From there, we got Cameron who came on board, then within about a month from there, we added the amazing Elle Army.

After that, the amazing Krystal Joy Brown and legend Christian Demarais came on board, then my partner, Eric Cappuccio, ended up coming on full-time around the holidays to help out as a producer.

Around the holidays is when Cameron connected us with Jay Manuel who just loved the story. He also really liked me too, then I had a phone call with him and he just loved the film’s story and wanted to come on board and help champion it in any way that he could.

We also have Angelica Perez Castro as the Director of Photography on the team too.

That’s pretty much our amazing little producer team that we have there, and Cameron can elaborate more.

Cameron: I think the right people came on board. We also have associate producer Ben Bauer who was really excited about the story. I believe Elle saw what I was posting about the film and she messaged me was like “oh my God, YES!” because Elle- she’s a boss bitch.

She has a film called Orion which got distribution and it’s a great sci-fi film that’s going to be coming out this year, October 2nd, in theaters.

Bryce: That’s so awesome and exciting!

Cameron: Krystal is such a great mind too. She championed this film so much. It felt like Nick, Julie, and I were trying to push forward with everything, but it takes a village to make a movie. So each of these people just brought on their expertise, including Eric and Jay Manuel.

I think it was just all of everyone’s great minds and hearts and perseverance as the reason we moved so fast. It didn’t just happen, there was a lot of hard work that went into getting this moving and doing our shoot date and all that.

Bryce: It makes me even more excited for the film with all of these amazing people falling in the love with the story. I know that from the last time we spoke, the entire film was shot in a short amount of time.

I wanted to ask a little bit about the BTS of that, but also, Nick, I want to ask about how you manage all of those hats? It sounds stressful!

Nicholas: I’ll touch on that first and kind of walk you through pre-production. I think it was just before Thanksgiving of last year that we met our fundraising goal. So then we were like, “Great, here we go. We’re gonna try and do it.”

Our shooting dates were January 10th through the 22nd of 2026, so we had about a month and a half or so to really get everything organized. Once we met the fundraising goal, it was balls to the wall and pedal to the metal on getting everything done.

I mean, this was my first time producing a film. I come from a background in payroll accounting for television and film, so I’m familiar with the business side of everything, but I’ve never put together a full production.

So I was just diving deep into learning how to organize a team, how to manage a team of 8 producers, how to delegate tasks, making contracts, working with casting, etc.

We have a wonderful casting director, Jordan Blair Brown, who is local in Atlanta. She was amazing in helping us find local talent, which was really important to me to build up my own community here in Atlanta and work with my friends too.

It was super stressful, you know, especially during the holidays. I was also in Mexico for a friend’s wedding, and I was sitting there sipping a margarita, working on legal documents and researching how to get investors and do paperwork, etc.

It was definitely a lot, and it was very stressful. I don’t know if I would wear 5 hats again. Maybe I’ll give a couple up next time. [laughs]

Bryce: That is true dedication right there.

Nicholas: I learned a lot and I think I did it pretty well. I mean, we’ve gotten to this point, so that’s pretty good. Then in terms of the production, we shot for 10 days and had 2 days off in the middle.

It was pure insanity and very busy with 12 hour days and a cast and crew of about 60. Altogether, we had 26 cast members and then the rest were crew and producers. I’ll let Cameron touch on a little bit of the BTS part of it and his perspective of the shoot.

Cameron: I mean, Nick really did impress me, and I’ll be very honest, this was my first feature. I have produced a web series and a short before, but this was also kind of newer territory for me. So I’m not going to pretend I’m some big time producer. Like, it was tons of learning and I have to commend Nick because he really ran with it.

We were having meetings on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve, so it really was every single day and intense. It was, it was intense.

I don’t think Nick will mind me saying, but there were times early on when Nick was like “I don’t know if we will make it,” and I told him “no, I will not hear that attitude.” Like, I feel that you have to keep that completely optimistic mindset when it comes to filmmaking because if you don’t, it will not happen. So we kept that vision going, and it worked. It happened.

Bryce: I have to appreciate the dedication and the hard work that you both put into it. I mean, I think just you explaining it here and now makes it so clear how much passion and love was put into creating In Between. Y’all really did the damn thing and should be so proud of how far you’ve come.

Can you tell us a little bit about the movie and what’s it about for the people who don’t know?

Nicholas: So the tl;dr of it is this: it’s a gay romantic dramedy loosely based off of my love life and my experience as a chubby, hairy gay guy in the community. At the end of the day, it’s about trying to find love, but learning to love yourself in the process.

My character Nick goes through the loops of toxic dates, trying the dating apps, and doing the thing to try and find that special someone. He has a really great and solid group of friends who are super supportive throughout this journey that keep telling him how great he is, but he just can’t hear them or believe them.

And then he meets Beau, played by Cameron, who is this handsome Brit with a smooth little accent. He’s everything that Nick thinks he wants or thinks he’s wanted in the past. Things are going great and then something happens where Beau is just not ready to tell the world that he and Nick are kind of together.

So that sends Nick into a spiral of figuring out and answering the questions “what are you deserving of? Where are you willing to sacrifice what, and what does it take to really have that love while also learning to love yourself.

Bryce: That’s really beautiful, honestly. Real art truly comes from the heart, and I love that you’ve poured your real life experiences into this. I remember the last time we spoke, you talked about how just the wording of “in between” carries itself in lots of different ways throughout the film as a multifaceted relatable motif and overarching theme.

That’s one of the reasons why I think it will connect a lot with so many different audiences and a huge reason that I’m excited to go see the film. I can’t wait to see what people say about the film too.

Nicholas: Me too, but I’m a bit terrified.

Bryce: Well of course! It’s like your baby, you know, and you’ve spent a long time, a lot of money, and a whole lot of effort on it. Of course you’re nervous to put it out into the world, but I do think that even if you just touch one person’s heart, which it will be more than one, it will be so worth it. It’s going to be great.

I think it’s an important story, especially to the bear community.

Nicholas: Well, we appreciate that. Just to quickly touch back on the “in between” aspect you mentioned, that’s my little tagline that I kind of like to say. I’m too fat for the hot gays and too thin for the chubby chasers.

It’s always been that “in between” aspect from Nick’s perspective in the movie too where he feels he’s never been the right fit for anybody and then feeling like he’s on the fringe of community.

Nick doesn’t really feel like he belongs in the bear community because the bear community is positive and very self accepting and loving of each other and their body types and everything, but he just doesn’t feel that.

Then with the gay aspect as well, it’s such a universal feeling that everybody feels in between in some aspect of their life. Like some people are first generation immigrants where they feel in between being American and from their home country. We have the trans experience too.

I feel like anybody can really relate to this, so that’s what we feel makes it so special. Yes, it’s through the lens of a gay story, but it’s not just for the LGBTQ+ community, I truly think everyone can really resonate with it.

I know too that within the bear community, we’re kind of having that transitional trend too with the “Ozempic epidemic” that everyone is talking about it. It’s like, now we have these drugs that help people lose weight who have tried to lose weight their whole lives and all this kind of stuff, and there’s a lot of shame around it. People judge people for wanting to get skinnier.

I know people who have been bigger bears that have gotten on peptides and lost over 200 pounds that now feel they’re kind of on the fringe of their own community they once were in.

So everyone is in between and it’s an interesting ecosystem that’s happening right now. I think that the story of just learning to love yourself is, at the end of the day, the most important part and then the rest is going to follow.

Cameron: Yeah, I definitely feel what was interesting on set was when I first got the script, I could feel the romantic comedy aspect of it. Nick’s writing is really funny, and that’s why I loved it. Just really cute.

And then when we filmed it, Bryce, it turned into something a little different. We kind of saw how Nick’s character is crying a lot and it was really intense. Poor Nick is having to do all these intense scenes, and it was about midway through where we had this revelation that it wasn’t just a romantic comedy, it’s a romantic dramedy.

It is a really funny film, but there’s also Nick dealing with a bit of suicidal ideation, so there’s some really serious subject matters in this within that “in between” sphere.

I think that’s another part of why people will be able to relate because we’re all either going through or have gone through these tough times and we’re always evolving. So that’s why I think particularly your readers and everyone else will appreciate this film, or I hope they will.

Bryce: Absolutely. Honestly, I’m about to tear up because of what you said, Nick, about not feeling fat enough for the chubby chasers and not feeling thin enough for everyone else.

As someone who’s body type is also in between, especially within the bear community as a cub, I feel that like immensely. What’s touching is that in my own career, I get people thanking me all the time for what I do and representing that “in between” body type within the bear community or just the overall queer community.

So yeah, I think this is so cool to have this type of story on film and touch on so many important topics and be relatable to so many different people.

Nicholas: Unfortunately, I feel like it’s a pretty universal experience within our community. We’ve always felt like we just don’t belong and that sometimes, life is just not worth it, but it does get better. It may not be tomorrow, but it will get better eventually.

Bryce: You’re exactly right. And Nick, you wrote the film, right?

Nicholas: Yes, I started writing it in 2023. It was originally a short film called Beyond Expectations and was a little 17 page short that was the first thing I had ever written outside of screenwriting in college.

This was the first real piece of work that I wrote. I shared it with an ex-hookup who is a professional writer in Los Angeles. Post coitus, we’re in bed and we’re talking about the short film, and he’s like, “it’s really cute, what are your plans?” I was like, “oh, you know, I want to do some film festivals and this and that.” He said “okay, it kind of fits the motif, but what makes it different?”

I was like, “what do you mean? It’s cute, right? What do you mean what makes it different?” He says, “I think you need to acknowledge that you wrote something and now throw it away and start over.”

So that, you know, it’s never easy to hear. After that, I took months off. Writing is always the process of picking it up for a few hours and then not touching it for three months until the inspiration strikes.

At some point, I was ready to try again. I had a 30 page short film called In Between and realized it wasn’t just a short anymore. I had more writing to do, so I ended up combining my original short with the new one, fully fleshed it out, and that’s we got the 77 page feature for In Between.

I finished writing in January of 2025, and then February of 2025 is when I had my first table read with a lot of my actor friends locally and got really great feedback, tweaked some things from there, and in August of 2025, I decided to jump on doing it.

Bryce: I know a few people who have had short films that turned into feature films, and I think that’s a really cool creative process because you can take that short and then it can evolve into something much bigger. Taking the same meaning and intention behind the short’s origin and pushing it to a larger scale is so cool.

Nicholas: Yeah, it’s funny. It’s kind of like the first 12 minutes of the film is almost exactly like that original short, almost, then it carries out even further.

Bryce: So I’m going to ask a few more questions about the festival. I know everyone will ask, but is there anything spicy or steamy in the film that we’re gonna see?

Nicholas: Go ahead, Cam.

Cameron: I think we leave it a little bit more to the imagination. I think the spiciness is more in the story and some of the twists and turns that happen. You will be entertained. Are you going to see Hardcore Bang Bang Bang? No, but that could be in the sequel. Don’t worry.

Nicholas: It’s definitely more tender. You know, in the post coital romance of it all is kind of how it goes. But you will see two butts. So I’ll give you that.

Cameron: Oh, yeah, wait, I just remembered the butt! Yeah, you’ll see my butt. [laughs]

Nicholas: You’ll see both of our butts. [laughs]

Bryce: That’s scandalous. So you heard it here first. Get your tickets now. Get your tickets now, everyone. And y’ all kiss, right? We need to know!

Nicholas: We kiss at least once. There’s some kissing, yeah.

Bryce: Well now I need to book my flight to come see it at the festival! Speaking of, can you tell me about the process of what it’s like to pitch a film or short to festivals and what were your feelings like when you found out In Between would be featured at the Out On Film festival in Atlanta?

Nicholas: So the process is pretty. There’s a website called Film Freeway, and this is kind of where you go as an indie filmmaker. You set up a profile for your film and that’s where you can submit to every film festival in the world.

It really starts first with the strategy. We spent a lot of time building out our strategy for film festivals and timeline of execution. Like, we filmed in January, and now we’re premiering in September. That’s crazy. So we were very ambitious from the beginning of aiming to get this done in time for fall festivals.

In the last couple days of submission time for the Out On Film festival, we weren’t sure if we’d be able to finish in time. We stopped that doubt head on and decided to make it happen. We submitted, then they called a couple of days later telling us they were actually waiting for us and had been following the project very early on. It was touching and felt so crazy to hear!

Once I heard that, I was just like, my little film? You guys have been watching this little film as it’s been made from the fundraising to when we were filming? I guess they had noticed our PR and social media buzz, which was just so cool.

Now it’s world premiering exactly a year to the day of when we launched the fundraiser in its hometown at its home festival. It’s just all amazing, and like Cameron and I have said, the timing and just everything happened how it’s supposed to happen with this film.

Like, there’s things that we think we want and it doesn’t happen, and then we turn the corner and then exactly what we needed to happen, happens.

Cameron: Because it’s still so recent, we are still obviously waiting for other festivals. Those notification deadlines are coming up, so, fingers crossed. We’re excited about our run and we’re going to try and keep it tight because we actually want to get to distribution sooner rather than later to keep that energy going.

But, we’ll see how we feel. There’s so many great festivals, but we can’t do them or fit into all of them. Out On Film festival is basically one of the biggest and best LGBTQ+ festivals, so we’re in really good hands there.

Bryce: Yeah, it’s a big deal! I’m sure just getting that news was just like surreal and cathartic.

Cameron: Yes, exactly that.

Bryce: Finding out it’s premiering the exact same day a year later from launching the fundraiser is so awesome too.

Cameron: Yeah, it felt really right because we filmed it in Atlanta so it makes sense that we would premiere there.

Bryce: Just to double check, you will both be there for the screening to answer questions before or after the film?

Nicholas: So for the full details, we premiere on Saturday, September 26th at 9:15pm at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema in Atlanta, Georgia.

We will be having a pre-reception at the restaurant Opera Diem which is right next to the theater around 6:30pm.

So that will be open if people are coming to visit and they want to kind of pop by and get a chance to talk to us or anything. We have our screening and then after the screening, we are doing a Q&A.

Super exciting and again, nerve wracking. You can get your tickets at outonfilm.org and we would love if anyone wants to come down and say hello, chat with us, we’d absolutely love that. The more the merrier, so help us fill up those theaters, people, and buy a ticket if you can!

Bryce: You’ll be there too, Cam, right? You’ll be answering questions?

Cameron: Oh yeah, we’re super excited. I think we’ve got myself, one of our main actors Sachin Bhatt, our co-director Juli-ann De Barros, as well as cast members Aaron Goldenberg and Julian Burzynski. It’s going to be a great turnout, so please come by!

Bryce: So we’re at the end of the interview, and it’s time for my favorite questions to get to know y’all a little better outside of the film. We’re going to do this quick fire style, so get ready!

Nicholas: Go for it.

Bryce: Top three films of all time?

Nicholas: Scream (1996), Halloween (1978), and The Wizard of Oz.

Cameron: Brokeback Mountain and The Hours.

Bryce: Some classics in there, but also some homework for me!

Favorite actors of all time?

Cameron: Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, and Kate Winslet. All the kids.

Nicholas: Sandra Bullock. Oh, this is always so hard… Emma Stone, and Kiki Palmer.

Bryce: Love Kiki Palmer! Good choices, the both of you.

Okay, now my personal favorite. Favorite foods or restaurants?

Nicholas: Sushi and steak.

Cameron: Bule bass burgers. Chocolate lava cake. Tacos all day, specifically Birria tacos.

Bryce: Okay, now I’m hungry. Excellent choices!

Favorite travel destinations?

Cameron: Greece, Mexico, and Africa even though I haven’t been there yet.

Nicholas: I would say Athens in Greece, Florence in Italy, and Paris is pretty cool too.

Bryce: I want to go to all those places and be more well traveled, so I’m basically making you both give me suggestions. Thank you!

Favorite pastimes and/or hobbies outside of your work?

Nicholas: I’m a Spooky Bitch. Anything horror related, whether it’s like, ghost tours or haunted houses or just horror movies in general, I’m there. Also, video games like Dead by Daylight and Fortnite.

Cameron: I love photography. I love the gym, Rock climbing, traveling, you know, that can be a bit basic, but it’s not that basic.

Bryce: Those are classic things, and important too. I also love horror, Nick, so I’m with you there.

Thank you both so much for taking the time to speak with me today. Is there anything that you’d like to leave our readers with today?

Nicholas: I hope you see the film, because you’ll definitely understand exactly what we’re talking about and what my message is to the world through this story. If you don’t see it, I mean, what I can tell you is, life is a process and it takes a lot of work.

You really need to love all the parts of yourself if you expect the world to love you back. That can involve making changes, which is totally fine to make yourself happier, but you need to love yourself. You know, RuPaul says it best. If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell can you love somebody else?

You really have to love yourself, and you have to put in the work to do it. It’s hard, and I highly recommend therapy if you can make it happen, because it is super important.

Cameron: Yeah, I feel we’re all in between constantly. And sometimes we’re struggling a lot, and sometimes we can be the support for others. So just love on your friends like we are a Community. We need to lean into the community more and more, I think.