Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We Are Pat will begin an Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run on May 29 in New York, with screenings in Los Angeles, Chicago and nationwide this summer. Tribeca Films, the distribution label from Tribeca Enterprises and Giant Pictures, will release We Are Pat digitally on June 23.
Created by Julia Sweeney in the 90s, “Pat” became a phenomenon on SNL before facing cultural backlash as conversations around transness and non-binary identity politics evolved. What starts as a pop culture excavation becomes something deeper: a reflection on gender identity, the elasticity of comedy, the ethics of authorship, and what happens when a joke outlives the era it was born in.
We Are Pat will begin an Academy Award-qualifying theatrical run on May 29 in New York, with screenings in Los Angeles, Chicago and nationwide this summer. Tribeca Films, the distribution label from Tribeca Enterprises and Giant Pictures, will release We Are Pat digitally on June 23.
Created by Julia Sweeney in the 90s, “Pat” became a phenomenon on SNL before facing cultural backlash as conversations around transness and non-binary identity politics evolved. What starts as a pop culture excavation becomes something deeper: a reflection on gender identity, the elasticity of comedy, the ethics of authorship, and what happens when a joke outlives the era it was born in.
