If they want to make it in show business...

...they're gonna have to make something.

​Ellie and Tess are young, struggling actresses and feminists who regularly face challenges as women in the film industry.  From the pay gap, to nudity in film, to body shaming, to a string of female characters who are defined by their relationship to the male protagonists, they regularly have to choose between accepting roles that misrepresent women, or not working at all.  After a day of particularly trying auditions, Ellie and Tess decide to write and produce their own film:  a multi-genre movie that takes the stereotypes that face each gender in the industry, and flips them around. 
​There is a horror scene in which a scantily-clad guy runs through the woods screaming from a masked female killer; a sci-fi romance scene in which a vampire girl tells her human boyfriend that she shouldn't be with him because he's too fragile and breakable; a rom-com bit that includes a "manic pixie dream dude".  Tess and Ellie have a lifetime of archetypes to draw from, but there is a problem:  they have never made a movie themselves and have no idea how to do it.  Yet.
R​EPRESENT follows Ellie and Tess as they recruit a cast and crew on a shoestring budget, juggle their day jobs, face resistance, tackle misogyny, overcome limitations, try to get the male actors to understand the finer points of the feminist content, and do their best to make a difference, no matter how small.