Shanestar Productions produces films about issues from the sidelines of LGBTQ life and brings these issues to the forefront with layered community engagement campaigns through engaging videos and media content. LGBT/Queer Arts is still evolving especially film and video production. Too often, our stories are presented only through well-moneyed lenses, rarely from working class people. In fact, competing with multi-million dollar funded films is always challenging, but our bare-bones projects still sneak in the door. By focusing on issues rarely discussed and approaching our work extreme tenacity and using professional teams, we have been able to create media that makes it hard to ignore these social justice issues.