A community-built indie series about keeping it together when your world is falling apart.
#FareLife — Official Trailer
A ride-share driver becomes an accidental witness to the private lives of strangers navigating love, identity, belonging, and the ordinary mess of being human.
SEASON 1 now playing in festivals everywhere
Watch the Series
Five short rides. Five strangers. One driver figuring it out along the way.
You’re getting an early look. The official public release doesn’t land on YouTube until June 2027.
Season 1: Buddy’s First Day
The first ride of the day sets the tone — and Buddy learns not everyone gets in the car for the fare.
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A glittering, hilarious, big-hearted pickup that turns the back seat into a moving green room.
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An ordinary ride takes a turn, and Buddy has to decide what looking out for a stranger really means.
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A late-night fare gets personal fast, and the ride becomes about everything left unsaid.
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The last ride of Buddy’s first day asks the question the whole show is really about: where to now?
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About #FareLife
#FareLife gives us a peek inside the lives of Connecticut strangers from all walks of life as they ride from place to place with everyone’s favorite FareRide driver, affectionately called “Buddy.”
From drag queens to estranged parents to drunk strangers, Buddy’s adventures reveal the pitfalls, absurdity, humor, tenderness, and unexpected connection of ordinary life.
Viewed through the lens of a middle-aged gay filmmaker moonlighting as a rideshare driver learning to navigate his own life, #FareLife explores not only what it means to be out, but what it means to truly learn how to be out, and proud.
Go Deeper Into the Story →What’s NEXT
The next episode, screening, workshop, production day, or reason to get in the car.
Come watch Buddy’s first day on the big screen with the crew, then stick around for a filmmaker Q&A.
Emerging filmmakers and college students: paid crew roles and hands-on Labs are opening for the seasons ahead.
See What’s Open →The CT Story Labs Connection
CT Story Labs grew directly out of the way we already make #FareLife. The same production model that creates the series also gives emerging filmmakers a place to learn by doing real work beside experienced creatives.
Hands-on, on-set learning where young storytellers build real craft.
Paid crew roles that turn training into professional experience.
Original content keeps the production engine running.
A lasting network of storytellers rooted here in Connecticut.
Support the Show
#FareLife is independently produced, community-supported, and directly connected to training the next generation of filmmakers through CT Story Labs.
Supporting the show helps us keep producing original work, creating hands-on training opportunities, building paid pathways for emerging creatives where possible, and strengthening Connecticut’s independent storytelling community.
Want to help keep the cameras rolling? Individual gifts help move the next season, the training model, and the larger creative community forward.
Companies, foundations, schools, universities, and community partners can help build the production and training engine behind #FareLife and CT Story Labs.
Who’s Behind the Ride
Co-Creator · Writer · Director · Lead Actor
Filmmaker and clinical therapist with an MFA in storytelling from Sacred Heart University, where he also teaches. A multiple award-winning writer-director behind #FareLife.
Co-Creator · Director · Producer · Editor
Award-winning short-film director and editor with an MFA in Film Production from Sacred Heart University, where he also guest lectures.
Executive Producer
Producer of 75+ short films with an MFA in Film Production from Sacred Heart University, focused on bold storytelling and underrepresented voices.
Three Ways In
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Get new episodes, screenings, behind-the-scenes stories, production updates, and occasional CT Story Labs news.
You’ll also receive The Paradox Papers, a weekly note from series creator and lead actor Brian Hogan as he lives his real-life mental health, creative, and spiritual journey in public.
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