A Space for Beau
Chicago, Illinois | Film Short
LGBTQ, Drama
An independent son, Beau, prepares to care for his sick mother despite their estranged relationship, but his attempts are obstructed by a young girl's disruptive presence. The realities of the girl's relationship to Beau are revealed through childhood past and identity where healing is needed.
A Space for Beau
Chicago, Illinois | Film Short
LGBTQ, Drama
1 Campaigns | Illinois, United States
24 supporters | followers
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$2,675
Goal: $7,000 for production
An independent son, Beau, prepares to care for his sick mother despite their estranged relationship, but his attempts are obstructed by a young girl's disruptive presence. The realities of the girl's relationship to Beau are revealed through childhood past and identity where healing is needed.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
A Space for Beau begins with an anxiously anticipated arrival: Beau's terminally ill mother.
Beau, a man who finds stability in the self-sufficient success and constructed space he’s grown to identify with, chooses to take a critical step into manhood—caring for his mother despite their long-estranged relationship.
To prepare Beau's house for his mother's move-in is to prepare for his mother's witness of his own isolated prosperity. Safety-proofing the house seems like a simple feat—until a vastly different guest gets in the way: a young girl.
Through sessions with Oscar, Beau's eccentrically unconventional therapist, Beau is resistantly pushed to unpack the realities of the girl's disruptive presence. Beau, however, would rather confine his concerns towards his incoming mother's arrival.
When the child’s stay threatens the integrity of Beau’s home just days before his mother’s move, Beau must traverse a psychological journey toward bettering the relationships both around him and within himself, all within the space he once considered to define him.
The long process of coming up with a A Space for Beau arose from an interest in finding an identifiable way to tell a story of facing one's masked childhood in order to heal the self. As a transgender man, filmmaker, and storyteller, I have realized the need and creative power of telling such a story through a lens of a transgender protagonist, while embracing authenticity and nuance, something often lacking from films portraying the subject. I wanted this story to feel accessible, relatable, and emotional to audiences beyond those that LGBT films are often confined to…many could benefit from the hard work of healing their troubled childhood and embracing the young self that lives within them. I am here to tell a story of a man’s ability to reconnect with and understand his young self, and to expand it by exploring such healing through a mother and son's troubled, adult relationship. To create and nurture the space for one to face and reparent their own unhealed childhood, especially when one must take on a caretaking role for their own parent.
"Mi Niño Interior" - Christian Carrión Cárdenas
We have a goal of raising $7000 for the production expenses of A Space for Beau. While this may sound like a lot for a student film production, there are plenty of expenses that must be treated similarly to professional productions. Between locations, paying talent, feeding the cast and crew, and truck rentals to transport equipment, the real-world numbers add up fast. With this being a BFA Thesis film production, the project is approached with industry-standards and professionalism from the beginning of story development to the final touch of post-production, even to distribution and festival submissions. Any excess funding we get from crowdfunding will be used to help pay for film festival submissions, which are crucial for the final product to be seen by other creatives and for the team to be highlighted and potentially rewarded for their hard work.
There are a plethora of ways you can help.
- Sharing this crowdfunding site with friends, family, and peers.
- Following @aspaceforbeaufilm on Instagram for updates on the project.
- Following our Seed&Spark campaign.
- Pledging to our film with a monetary contribution--become a vital contributor to the final product!
We have to reach 80% of our goal in order to make this film. That means we must raise $5600.
Filmmaking is far from a one-person show. It takes time, money, labor (both creatively and physically), and most importantly—community. A Space for Beau is a film made for its respective communities, and importantly, made by its communities. As BFA film students with a passion for cinematic storytelling, the thesis film is a culmination and celebration of our hardest work. We are thrilled to execute commitment and creation to share a deeply emotional story to the big screen. Your contribution is the tool that fuels our ability to bring A Space for Beau to life. The project is thriving with dedicated students, professionals, and faculty to drive its process to completion, with a commitment to a professional production and product. Our team will maintain communication and updates to our Contributors regarding the film's status and process through production, post, and distribution.
September 2025 - Story development.
November 2025 - Locked scripts for production.
January 2026 - Crowdfunding site goes LIVE. Casting begins. Continued assembly of creatives to be added onto the project. Locations to shoot at are confirmed and booked.
February 2026 - Purchases are made for Production Design...Beau's world begins to come to life. Discussions, planning, and preparation for cinematography, sound, and performances grow.
March 2026 - Shooting!
May 2026 - Picture editing.
Fall 2026 - Sound editing.
End of 2026 - Festival run! A Space for Beau plans to submit its completed film to multiple film festivals both locally and nationally.
Following the festival window, A Space for Beau will release publicly across platforms such as Youtube, Vimeo, and social media like TikTok and Instagram.
The final film will premiere at Columbia College Chicago's "Manifest 2027".
We are grateful and honored to work with professional Gillian Fauntleroy and the team of Chicago casting directors at Paskal Rudnicke Casting for A Space for Beau.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Pay the talent
Costs $1,200
A Space for Beau is excited to work with professional actors in the industry. As their job, they deserve to be paid for their craft!
House and fly the talent
Costs $1,000
Our lead is arriving to Chicago from out of town. Contribute by covering the cost of housing and flying them here!
Art Department
Costs $1,200
There is art in many forms of cinema. This would cover the expenses of purchases needed for production design, set dressing, and props!
Dress the talent
Costs $130
Contribute by covering the costs of creating the wardrobe looks for each of our 3 characters. Help the talent look and feel their best!
Locate us
Costs $1,300
Beau's house won't appear for free. Locations require rentals, especially a space that can comfortably house the crew for multiple days!
Feed us
Costs $1,080
Cast and crew needs warm food! For most people on set, this (and incredible experience) is their only form of compensation.
Transport us
Costs $450
Fancy equipment means trucks to move it! Contribute by covering the costs of truck rentals for safe and efficient load ins and outs.
Be our safety net!
Costs $640
Films require a 10% contingency for the things that can go wrong on set. Unexpected circumstances and unforeseen issues often arise!
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Colson Foster
son is a young filmmaker from Cincinnati who moved to Chicago to pursue his dreams of attending film school. While he has explored the craft of cinematic storytelling since the age of 10, in the last four years he has dived further to release multiple short film with his own equipment and crew, under the name "Charcoal Cinemas". He took on larger-scale student productions during his studies at Columbia College Chicago, as roles such as director, screenwriter, script supervisor, and more. He is set to graduate in the spring of 2027, with plans of studying in Los Angles to immerse himself in the heart of the industry. Colson looks to tell stories that explore human conditions, expanding on interpersonal relationships and externalized inner conflicts.
Miles Tucci
M
iles Tucci is a junior at Columbia College Chicago pursuing a BFA in Production Design. For as long as he can remember, he has loved to create art across many different mediums, which has largely inspired his passion for the work he does today. As a designer, he is able to carefully curate the visual world within a film in order to bring the script to life. Their favorite part about working in the art department is being able to include fine details throughout a scene to make the narrative extra meaningful. Because of their own queer identity, they feel very connected to this story and are so excited to design A Space for Beau.
Abi Hamilton
Abi Hamilton is a Cinematographer BFA major at Columbia College Chicago. As a Director of Photography, Abi focuses on using visual storytelling to support character, mood, and narrative. Their work focuses on intentional lighting, composition, and camera movement. A Space For Beau is the perfect example of a story with a mix of different aesthetics and emotions which makes telling the story visually more challenging and interesting.
Being a young filmmaker from Jamaica, she strives to make work that would make her younger self proud of what she’s become in America. Coming from a background of tech-savvy family members that inspired her to take this path, she hopes to keep that dream going. Being a cinematographer helps her see the world in a different light, finding the visual beauty in things that are otherwise mundane.
Gaelle Dalmacy
Gaelle Dalmacy is a Junior at Columbia College Chicago, originally from Detroit, Michigan. She is a Film and Television major with a focus in Producing. She loves getting the opportunity to work with other creatives in order to bring their dreams to life as fully-fledged films. She is very excited that she’ll be able to do just that as the Line Producer on A Space for Beau.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
A Space for Beau begins with an anxiously anticipated arrival: Beau's terminally ill mother.
Beau, a man who finds stability in the self-sufficient success and constructed space he’s grown to identify with, chooses to take a critical step into manhood—caring for his mother despite their long-estranged relationship.
To prepare Beau's house for his mother's move-in is to prepare for his mother's witness of his own isolated prosperity. Safety-proofing the house seems like a simple feat—until a vastly different guest gets in the way: a young girl.
Through sessions with Oscar, Beau's eccentrically unconventional therapist, Beau is resistantly pushed to unpack the realities of the girl's disruptive presence. Beau, however, would rather confine his concerns towards his incoming mother's arrival.
When the child’s stay threatens the integrity of Beau’s home just days before his mother’s move, Beau must traverse a psychological journey toward bettering the relationships both around him and within himself, all within the space he once considered to define him.
The long process of coming up with a A Space for Beau arose from an interest in finding an identifiable way to tell a story of facing one's masked childhood in order to heal the self. As a transgender man, filmmaker, and storyteller, I have realized the need and creative power of telling such a story through a lens of a transgender protagonist, while embracing authenticity and nuance, something often lacking from films portraying the subject. I wanted this story to feel accessible, relatable, and emotional to audiences beyond those that LGBT films are often confined to…many could benefit from the hard work of healing their troubled childhood and embracing the young self that lives within them. I am here to tell a story of a man’s ability to reconnect with and understand his young self, and to expand it by exploring such healing through a mother and son's troubled, adult relationship. To create and nurture the space for one to face and reparent their own unhealed childhood, especially when one must take on a caretaking role for their own parent.
"Mi Niño Interior" - Christian Carrión Cárdenas
We have a goal of raising $7000 for the production expenses of A Space for Beau. While this may sound like a lot for a student film production, there are plenty of expenses that must be treated similarly to professional productions. Between locations, paying talent, feeding the cast and crew, and truck rentals to transport equipment, the real-world numbers add up fast. With this being a BFA Thesis film production, the project is approached with industry-standards and professionalism from the beginning of story development to the final touch of post-production, even to distribution and festival submissions. Any excess funding we get from crowdfunding will be used to help pay for film festival submissions, which are crucial for the final product to be seen by other creatives and for the team to be highlighted and potentially rewarded for their hard work.
There are a plethora of ways you can help.
- Sharing this crowdfunding site with friends, family, and peers.
- Following @aspaceforbeaufilm on Instagram for updates on the project.
- Following our Seed&Spark campaign.
- Pledging to our film with a monetary contribution--become a vital contributor to the final product!
We have to reach 80% of our goal in order to make this film. That means we must raise $5600.
Filmmaking is far from a one-person show. It takes time, money, labor (both creatively and physically), and most importantly—community. A Space for Beau is a film made for its respective communities, and importantly, made by its communities. As BFA film students with a passion for cinematic storytelling, the thesis film is a culmination and celebration of our hardest work. We are thrilled to execute commitment and creation to share a deeply emotional story to the big screen. Your contribution is the tool that fuels our ability to bring A Space for Beau to life. The project is thriving with dedicated students, professionals, and faculty to drive its process to completion, with a commitment to a professional production and product. Our team will maintain communication and updates to our Contributors regarding the film's status and process through production, post, and distribution.
September 2025 - Story development.
November 2025 - Locked scripts for production.
January 2026 - Crowdfunding site goes LIVE. Casting begins. Continued assembly of creatives to be added onto the project. Locations to shoot at are confirmed and booked.
February 2026 - Purchases are made for Production Design...Beau's world begins to come to life. Discussions, planning, and preparation for cinematography, sound, and performances grow.
March 2026 - Shooting!
May 2026 - Picture editing.
Fall 2026 - Sound editing.
End of 2026 - Festival run! A Space for Beau plans to submit its completed film to multiple film festivals both locally and nationally.
Following the festival window, A Space for Beau will release publicly across platforms such as Youtube, Vimeo, and social media like TikTok and Instagram.
The final film will premiere at Columbia College Chicago's "Manifest 2027".
We are grateful and honored to work with professional Gillian Fauntleroy and the team of Chicago casting directors at Paskal Rudnicke Casting for A Space for Beau.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Pay the talent
Costs $1,200
A Space for Beau is excited to work with professional actors in the industry. As their job, they deserve to be paid for their craft!
House and fly the talent
Costs $1,000
Our lead is arriving to Chicago from out of town. Contribute by covering the cost of housing and flying them here!
Art Department
Costs $1,200
There is art in many forms of cinema. This would cover the expenses of purchases needed for production design, set dressing, and props!
Dress the talent
Costs $130
Contribute by covering the costs of creating the wardrobe looks for each of our 3 characters. Help the talent look and feel their best!
Locate us
Costs $1,300
Beau's house won't appear for free. Locations require rentals, especially a space that can comfortably house the crew for multiple days!
Feed us
Costs $1,080
Cast and crew needs warm food! For most people on set, this (and incredible experience) is their only form of compensation.
Transport us
Costs $450
Fancy equipment means trucks to move it! Contribute by covering the costs of truck rentals for safe and efficient load ins and outs.
Be our safety net!
Costs $640
Films require a 10% contingency for the things that can go wrong on set. Unexpected circumstances and unforeseen issues often arise!
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Colson Foster
son is a young filmmaker from Cincinnati who moved to Chicago to pursue his dreams of attending film school. While he has explored the craft of cinematic storytelling since the age of 10, in the last four years he has dived further to release multiple short film with his own equipment and crew, under the name "Charcoal Cinemas". He took on larger-scale student productions during his studies at Columbia College Chicago, as roles such as director, screenwriter, script supervisor, and more. He is set to graduate in the spring of 2027, with plans of studying in Los Angles to immerse himself in the heart of the industry. Colson looks to tell stories that explore human conditions, expanding on interpersonal relationships and externalized inner conflicts.
Miles Tucci
Miles Tucci is a junior at Columbia College Chicago pursuing a BFA in Production Design. For as long as he can remember, he has loved to create art across many different mediums, which has largely inspired his passion for the work he does today. As a designer, he is able to carefully curate the visual world within a film in order to bring the script to life. Their favorite part about working in the art department is being able to include fine details throughout a scene to make the narrative extra meaningful. Because of their own queer identity, they feel very connected to this story and are so excited to design A Space for Beau.
Abi Hamilton
Abi Hamilton is a Cinematographer BFA major at Columbia College Chicago. As a Director of Photography, Abi focuses on using visual storytelling to support character, mood, and narrative. Their work focuses on intentional lighting, composition, and camera movement. A Space For Beau is the perfect example of a story with a mix of different aesthetics and emotions which makes telling the story visually more challenging and interesting.
Being a young filmmaker from Jamaica, she strives to make work that would make her younger self proud of what she’s become in America. Coming from a background of tech-savvy family members that inspired her to take this path, she hopes to keep that dream going. Being a cinematographer helps her see the world in a different light, finding the visual beauty in things that are otherwise mundane.
Gaelle Dalmacy
Gaelle Dalmacy is a Junior at Columbia College Chicago, originally from Detroit, Michigan. She is a Film and Television major with a focus in Producing. She loves getting the opportunity to work with other creatives in order to bring their dreams to life as fully-fledged films. She is very excited that she’ll be able to do just that as the Line Producer on A Space for Beau.