Best known for her Emmy-winning acting in “The Closer” and other series and films, Kyra Sedgwick has also developed an extensive resume behind the scenes. In addition to exec producing “The Closer” and her more recent series, “Ten Days in the Valley,” she earned a DGA nod this year for helming Lifetime TV movie “Story of a Girl,” which she also produced. Now Sedgwick is partnering with former DreamWorks exec Meredith Bagby (“Dreamgirls”) and Fat Chance Films co-founder Valerie Stadler (“Cavedweller”) to launch Big Swing Productions. Deadline confirmed the news, and reports that Big Swing is, in their own words, “committed to celebrating new heroes and amplifying bold voices, focusing on inclusive stories with heart and purpose.”

Among the first projects on the company’s slate is “Girls Weekend,” an independently developed and produced TV series about a queer woman who returns home to Las Vegas for a girls weekend with her homophobic sister and people-pleasing mother. The show is slated to premiere at Sundance 2018. Ali Liebegott (“Transparent”) stars in “Girls Weekend” and is credited as its writer.

Also in development is “The F**king New Guys,” a TV project inspired by the true story of “NASA’s first class of civilian Shuttle astronauts, which included the first American woman in space, the first African-American, the first Asian-American, the first mother, the first queer person, and the first Jewish person,” the source summarizes.

Based on Abdi Nazemian’s book of the same name, “The Authentics” is a YA series in the pipeline that centers on a first-generation Iranian-American who discovers that she’s adopted. Rachel Goldberg (“American Horror Story”) is signed on to direct.

On the feature side, Big Swing’s slate includes “Taffeta,” a rom-com about a queer female with Sedgwick attached to direct. Heather McNama and Nancy Nyman wrote the script.

A feature inspired by an award-winning Ramona Diaz documentary is also in the works. “Imelda” tells the story of a Filipino political dynasty through the perspective of a First Lady who becomes “one of the most complex and polarizing women in history.” Diaz (“Motherland”) is on board to direct.

Big Swing is also developing an adaption of “Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of the Universe,” Benjamin Alire Saenz’s best-selling novel about two Mexican-American teens who fall in love, and Amy Spaulding’s “The Summer of Jordi Perez,” a novel about a gay teen who falls for her co-worker.