The Hog
Queen

A small-town Texas gay bar.
A drag show. Feral hogs.

When feral hogs attack a small-town Texas gay bar mid-drag show, a disgruntled bartender's plans to skip town get violently derailed — and everyone inside has to survive not just the hogs, but each other.

It's irreverent, queer, genuinely scary, and shot through with dark humor — and the design language had to match every one of those registers at once.

Horror meets queer joy meets
Texas grit — all in one visual language

The tonal challenge of The Hog Queen is also its greatest design opportunity: it's genuinely frightening, funny, queer, and Texan — all at the same time. The design couldn't lean too hard into any single register without losing the others.

Working directly with the director, I developed a title treatment and visual system that feels tactile and handcrafted — like something you'd find stapled to a telephone pole in a small Texas town — while still having the polish expected of a film heading to festivals.

Every deliverable, from the end credits to the screening handout, had to feel like it came from the same world as the film itself.

Full design ownership,
from first frame to festival handout

As the sole graphic designer on the project, I've worked directly alongside the director and producer to build the visual identity of the film across every touchpoint — on screen, in print, and online.

From Austin living rooms
to Maryland Film Festival

After a private friends-and-family screening in Austin, TX in early March 2026, The Hog Queen is screening at the Maryland Film Festival in April 2026 — one of the most respected regional film festivals in the country, known for championing bold independent voices.