About this project
PROJECT:
The Shut-Ins is a short film written by Tricia Vessey & Jen George and is being shot in Brooklyn, NY, late January 2010.
The Shut-Ins is a darkly comedic Repulsion meets Grey Gardens. A rare friendship between Sig and Louisa, two misanthropic hypochondriacs, blossoms in a food stamps line in Chinatown. Sig invites Louisa to live with her and her Icelandic grandmother in their run-down basement apartment in Brooklyn. Things are going great until Grandma goes back to Iceland for the winter. Sig and Louisa, who are incapable of taking care of themselves, quickly fall apart.
SPECS:
-black and white digital video
-length: approximately 15 minutes
THE WRITERS/DIRECTORS:
Together we have written a feature length script, The Birthday Party, a pilot script, Blind Ambition and the short film The Shut-Ins. All our scripts revolve around a strong, yet flawed and funny, female lead. Our work is character driven, and our vision for the characters we've created has led us to seek independent funding so that our work can be realized without an investor who would want to make the work more commercial and the story less unique. Ultimately we would like this film to establish our style in, and serve as an introduction to, the film industry.
And really, this is our dream -- we love writing and we look forward to meeting every day to do our work.
WHERE WE ARE NOW:
We currently have a fantastic cinematographer and cast, music from Ariel Pink, a great special effects person, and a highly skilled editor on board. We are in preproduction putting together our shoot schedule, securing locations, and hiring crew etc...
WHAT WE NEED:
The money we raise here will cover crew, and equipment such as hard drives, a pro digital video camera, a lighting package, props, costumes, permits, craft services, and post production expenses, film festival submission fees and DVD copies. If we make more than our goal, we will apply the extra money to building a web site and sending our scripts out. We have a lot to get done and so everything we receive will go to getting our work rolling.
CHECK IT OUT:
We put up trailers we made for The Shut-Ins on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
We have the first episode of our web series "In the Production Office" here:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f6552643a6/in-the-production-office-go-to-wok
Tricia wrote and directed a 1/2 hour comedy pilot, The Sad Guy, which she is currently sending out to festivals. You can check out clips on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php...
And if you're interested, there's a reel of Tricia's acting work here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
WHAT PEOPLE (MIGHT) SAY ABOUT THE FILM:
- Sweet and funny, these are fascinatingly flawed women I could watch all day!
- Sig and Louisa are cut from the same cloth as Julianne Moore's character in Safe, but funny.
SOME POSSIBLE TAG LINES:
- The sound of a 1000 cuckoo clocks going off at once.
- Birds of feather flock together...or something like that.
TIME IS TICKING:
After bouts with H1N1, cat scans, vertigo, narcolepsy and bacterial infections, we're on a manic upswing, and don't know how long it will last -- help us raise funds to shoot our first joint project while we still can.
Donate anything you can; the shirt off your back, if the shirt off your back means money in our pocket. Or clams, if clams to you means US dollars.
We promise, it'll be pretty good.
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on January 20, 2010.
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You will receive a button with an artist rendering of Sig and Louisa, the two main characters in our film and be listed on Kickstarter as a valued patron.
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You will receive the button, as well as a t-shirt with an artist rendering of Sig and Louisa and be listed on Kickstarter as a valued patron.
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In addition to the button, t-shirt and Kickstarter patron listing, we will send you a DVD of the completed film.
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You will get all benefits listed above plus get a special thanks in the credits on our film.
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Reward will consist of all of the above rewards plus, if you're in the New York City area or want to plan a trip to the area, you will receive an invitation for you and a guest to our film's wrap party!
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$2,000 big ones and up will get you all of the above and if you're in the New York City area or can get yourself here, a dinner with the director/writer team, Tricia & Jen.
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And for a mere $5,000 and up you will get not only all of the above pledge rewards but you will also get a producer credit on the film and an in-person comedy performance by Tricia and Jen at your party or event....and they will be in bikinis....under their clothes.
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Tricia Vessey and Jen George are screenwriters based in Brooklyn, NY. They met while attending a writing workshop in 2006 and quickly became an unstoppable writing duo. They enjoy drinking kombucha and buying office supplies.
TRICIA VESSEY attended The City College, CUNY, an English and Photography double major and is now attending the Honors Creative writing program at The New School in New York City. She has been in the film industry for 15 years, acting in several films, as well as writing, producing, and directing. She has worked with directors such as Jim Jarmusch, Claire Denis and Azazel Jacobs and with some great actors like Vincent Gallo, Forest Whitaker, and Diane Keaton.
JEN GEORGE graduated last Spring Magna Cum Laude from the Creative Writing Program at The City College of New York in New York City where she received the Goodman Fund Short Story Award, and the Stark Award in Fiction in Honor of Henry H. Roth. She has been published in the Promethean Literary Magazine.
