Adventure Date! is a horror comedy short about a Tinder date gone terribly wrong. Susan, still smarting from her expulsion from a Quilting MFA program, agrees to take a long bike ride with Jonathan, a handsome internet stranger.
Adventure Date! is a horror comedy short about a Tinder date gone terribly wrong. Susan, still smarting from her expulsion from a Quilting MFA program, agrees to take a long bike ride with Jonathan, a handsome internet stranger.
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Mission Statement
Adventure Date! is created by and brought to life by a group of female filmmakers. We are excited to tell a very specific story about one of very specific woman's bad date. A woman as interesting and strange as the women you likely know in real life. Our team is committed to hiring an inclusive crewAbout The Project
THE STORY
The Summary: After being expelled from a Quilting MFA program, Susan goes on a tinder date adventure that ends up going terrible wrong...
(poster by Maddie Fischer!)
Susan is your average single 30 something New Yorker. She loves adventure. She goes on dates with strangers on the internet. She's dabbling in witchcraft.
She's excited for her date with Jonathan because, according to his profile, he loves adventure too! What are the odds?!?
They embark on a bike trip through City Island. Everything is going great...
until everything is going terribly wrong.
WHY THIS STORY?
Adventure Date! is an electric comedy-horror adventure! It follows one woman's experiences with witchcraft, dating, graduate school, anxieties, and finding herself. This story is important because it's about a strong, complex, nuanced female character as she navigates the choices of her life and her own sense of personal autonomy.
WHO WE ARE
WHY US?
Whether she is starring in national commercials or award winning indie films, Lucy Cottrell brings her unique sensibility, a humor equal parts bizarre and vulnerable, to every project. In her stand up, she utilizes comedy to speak openly about mental health. In her first foray into filmmaking, Adventure Date!, embodies everything that is delightful and off-kilter about Lucy. To execute her vision and bring this film to life, she has partnered with director Ginny Leise and producer Callie Hanau.
And you can read more about us on our team page!
Why this? You need a reason? We got a bunch!
1. This is a team of all women filmmakers! Statistics for the representation of women in film are pretty bleak--you can read more about that here. You can read about our team on our team page!
2. Adventure Date! is an exhilarating combination of genres! And we're over the moon thrilled to utilize these larger genres to explore the themes of self discovery, anxiety, and romantic love. This is a chance to make something strange and wonderful!
3. Adventure Date! stars a complex female protagonist!! Here you can read more about the limited way women are often portrayed on screen and the way that affects our real world.
Incentives
$7
Special Raffle! Sound healing session
Donate 7$ Adventure Date! for the chance to win a 60 minute sound healing session with Alex Schechter---a level 3 certified Acutonics sound therapist.
Planetary tuning forks are an emerging technology used by physicians, nurses, body workers, and psychologists around the world to treat a wide rang of physical and emotional patterns. Find out more at www.earth2alexsound.com
$8
Special Raffle ticket! Win a health counseling session!!
Donate $8 dollars to Adventure Date! for the chance to win a 60 minute health counseling session with Elana Smith!
Elana Smith provides counseling in nutrition, herbal medicine, and seasonal living.
Elana Smith is a certified holistic health counselor and educational therapist, as well as an herbalist and executive functioning coach based in New York City.
$9
Special Raffle!!! Beautiful stained glass piece by Patrick Hurley!
Exciting Adventure Date! raffle!!!!!
Donate $9 to Adventure Date! for the chance to win this lovely 5x7 stained glass piece by Patrick Hurley!
It is so pretty with perfect Adventure Date! blood spatters!
Sold Out!
$10
Special Raffle ticket! Astrology reading with Jeff Hinshaw of Cosmic Cousins
Purchase 1 raffle ticket for the opportunity to win a 90 minute astrology session with Cosmic Cousin’s Jeff Hinshaw
$11
Social Media Shoutout
THANK YOU ! Thank you for your support! I will give you a social media shoutout on the platform of your choice!
* instagram * twitter * facebook *
$15
2 special raffle tickets! Astrology reading w/ Jeff Hinshaw of Cosmic Cousins
2 raffle tickets for the chance to win a 90 minute astrology session with Jeff Hinshaw of Cosmic Cousins!$18
Esteban Cabeza de Baca's "Savilla Gates"
Exciting new raffle! Buy 1 $18 dollar raffle ticket for the chance to win Esteban Cabeza de Baca's painting "Savila Gates".
Esteban Cabeza de Baca is an amazing painter who's work has been shown all over the world & he was recently named as one of the "Four Artists To Watch Now" by the New York Times! This is the perfect choice for the burgeoning art collector!
Sold Out!
$20
Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden"
Exciting new Raffle!! Buy 1 $20 dollar raffle ticket for the chance to win the Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden"
18x18, oil on wood.
Heidi Howard (b. 1986, New York, NY) is a painter who lives and works in Queens, New York, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her figurative work draws on intimacies of friendship as a foundational element of her inventive paintings, which are characterized by loose, free strokes and detailed, staccato texture. A 2014 graduate of Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program, Howard has twich exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York: the 2017 show Woven Traits, as well as Portrait and Dream.
Sold Out!
$22
A Digital Thank You Card!
For your wonderful generosity, I will send you a personalized digital thank you card!
$28
Special Raffle! Esteban Cabeza de Baca's "Savile Gates"
Exciting new raffle! Buy 2 raffle tickets for $28 dollars for the chance to win Esteban Cabeza de Baca's painting "Savila Gates".
Esteban Cabeza de Baca is an amazing painter who's work has been shown all over the world & he was recently named as one of the "Four Artists to Watch Now" by the New York Times! This is the perfect choice for the burgeoning art critic!
Sold Out!
$30
Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden"
Exciting new Raffle!! Buy 2 raffle tickets for $30 dollars for double the chances to win Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden"
18x18, oil on wood.
Heidi Howard (b. 1986, New York, NY) is a painter who lives and works in Queens, New York, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her figurative work draws on intimacies of friendship as a foundational element of her inventive paintings, which are characterized by loose, free strokes and detailed, staccato texture. A 2014 graduate of Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program, Howard has twich exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York: the 2017 show Woven Traits, as well as Portrait and Dream.
Sold Out!
$42
Writing Process
Sneak Peak! Read an excerpt from the Adventure Date! script before anyone else! Revising the script is an important part of developing this project and I would love to share a scene from Adventure Date! with you.
$52
Thank You Credits & early online access to the film
You're a superstar! You will receive a special thank you credit at the end of the film for your contribution; and you will receive early online access to the film so you can enjoy Adventure Date! at home with popcorn!
$72
A Day Trip To City Island!
In Adventure Date! Susan goes on a tinder date to City Island in the Bronx, so let me plan your City Island date adventure! I will send you my own personalized tips for what to do while on a bike adventure to City Island and I will make you a specialized Adventure Date! music playlist.
(all day trip expenses are not included)
$85
Tickets to an Adventure Date! Screening
Roll out the red carpet for a night on the town! You will receive a ticket to a future, extra special event screening of Adventure Date! in NYC! Let's mingle and be merry together!
Travel and hotel accomodations are not included.
$125
An Original Comedy Video
I will make you a 1 minute comedy video on the subject of your choosing! I make original instagram comedy videos on a variety of topics--they are usually expansions on specific topics like anxiety, moving homes, procrastination, but I will make one especially for you on any topic you like! As long as it's not mean spirited or offensive. My original comedy videos have been nominated for an Andy Kaufman Award, screened in various festivals, as well as featured on online venues like Jezebel and Bustle, among others. Let's collaborate and make comedy together!
$350
Holistic Health Counseling Session
60 minutes (can be completed virtually or in person, logistics permitting)
Elana Smith provides counseling in nutrition, herbal medicine, and seasonal living. She helps clients weave ritual and spirituality into self care practices, connect deeply to nature, and manifest goals with a combination of magic and practical action. Self care through food, medicine and connecting to the spirit of the seasons helps us optimize our emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being while also honing our sense of timing in order to actualize our dreams.
Elana is a certified holistic health counselor and educational therapist, as well as an herbalist and executive functioning coach based in New York City.
$500
Sound Healing
Enjoy a 60 minute sound healing session (can be completed virtually or in person, logistics permitting) with Alex Schechter---a level 3 certified Acutonics sound therapist.
Planetary tuning forks are an emerging technology used by physicians, nurses, body workers, and psychologists around the world to treat a wide range of physical and emotional patterns. In this particular system of sound healing, tuning forks are placed on the body (similar to acupuncture), where their vibrations interact with specific meridians, or energy channels.
Addiction, depression, insomnia, low self-esteem, back pain, migraines, eating disorders, and anxiety are just a few of the symptoms we deal with in Acutonics.
Acutonics is founded on Pythagoras' belief in the "music of the spheres," which states that every aspect of nature exists in harmony with the movements of the heavens. As above, so below.
Using planetary tuning forks, mantra, and guided meditation, Alex works individually with clients to embrace the transformative and activating power of sound. By 'tuning' our energies to the natural harmonic patterns of the cosmos, we are able to recall our own divine nature, and ultimately, become healers unto our selves.
For more info: www.earth2alexsound.com
$1,000
Associate Producer Credit! Hooray!
You will receive an associate producer credit--thank you so much! And welcome to the team!!! We are so thrilled to collaborate with you! Let's celebrate our accomplishment together!
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Use the WishList to pledge cash and loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an incentive directly.
$7
Special Raffle! Sound healing session
Donate 7$ Adventure Date! for the chance to win a 60 minute sound healing session with Alex Schechter---a level 3 certified Acutonics sound therapist.
Planetary tuning forks are an emerging technology used by physicians, nurses, body workers, and psychologists around the world to treat a wide rang of physical and emotional patterns. Find out more at www.earth2alexsound.com
$8
Special Raffle ticket! Win a health counseling session!!
Donate $8 dollars to Adventure Date! for the chance to win a 60 minute health counseling session with Elana Smith!
Elana Smith provides counseling in nutrition, herbal medicine, and seasonal living.
Elana Smith is a certified holistic health counselor and educational therapist, as well as an herbalist and executive functioning coach based in New York City.
$9
Special Raffle!!! Beautiful stained glass piece by Patrick Hurley!
Exciting Adventure Date! raffle!!!!!
Donate $9 to Adventure Date! for the chance to win this lovely 5x7 stained glass piece by Patrick Hurley!
It is so pretty with perfect Adventure Date! blood spatters!
Sold Out!
$10
Special Raffle ticket! Astrology reading with Jeff Hinshaw of Cosmic Cousins
Purchase 1 raffle ticket for the opportunity to win a 90 minute astrology session with Cosmic Cousin’s Jeff Hinshaw
$11
Social Media Shoutout
THANK YOU ! Thank you for your support! I will give you a social media shoutout on the platform of your choice!
* instagram * twitter * facebook *
$15
2 special raffle tickets! Astrology reading w/ Jeff Hinshaw of Cosmic Cousins
2 raffle tickets for the chance to win a 90 minute astrology session with Jeff Hinshaw of Cosmic Cousins!$18
Esteban Cabeza de Baca's "Savilla Gates"
Exciting new raffle! Buy 1 $18 dollar raffle ticket for the chance to win Esteban Cabeza de Baca's painting "Savila Gates".
Esteban Cabeza de Baca is an amazing painter who's work has been shown all over the world & he was recently named as one of the "Four Artists To Watch Now" by the New York Times! This is the perfect choice for the burgeoning art collector!
Sold Out!
$20
Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden"
Exciting new Raffle!! Buy 1 $20 dollar raffle ticket for the chance to win the Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden"
18x18, oil on wood.
Heidi Howard (b. 1986, New York, NY) is a painter who lives and works in Queens, New York, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her figurative work draws on intimacies of friendship as a foundational element of her inventive paintings, which are characterized by loose, free strokes and detailed, staccato texture. A 2014 graduate of Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program, Howard has twich exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York: the 2017 show Woven Traits, as well as Portrait and Dream.
Sold Out!
$22
A Digital Thank You Card!
For your wonderful generosity, I will send you a personalized digital thank you card!
$28
Special Raffle! Esteban Cabeza de Baca's "Savile Gates"
Exciting new raffle! Buy 2 raffle tickets for $28 dollars for the chance to win Esteban Cabeza de Baca's painting "Savila Gates".
Esteban Cabeza de Baca is an amazing painter who's work has been shown all over the world & he was recently named as one of the "Four Artists to Watch Now" by the New York Times! This is the perfect choice for the burgeoning art critic!
Sold Out!
$30
Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden"
Exciting new Raffle!! Buy 2 raffle tickets for $30 dollars for double the chances to win Heidi Howard's painting "Lucy Florence Cottrell at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden"
18x18, oil on wood.
Heidi Howard (b. 1986, New York, NY) is a painter who lives and works in Queens, New York, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her figurative work draws on intimacies of friendship as a foundational element of her inventive paintings, which are characterized by loose, free strokes and detailed, staccato texture. A 2014 graduate of Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program, Howard has twich exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York: the 2017 show Woven Traits, as well as Portrait and Dream.
Sold Out!
$42
Writing Process
Sneak Peak! Read an excerpt from the Adventure Date! script before anyone else! Revising the script is an important part of developing this project and I would love to share a scene from Adventure Date! with you.
$52
Thank You Credits & early online access to the film
You're a superstar! You will receive a special thank you credit at the end of the film for your contribution; and you will receive early online access to the film so you can enjoy Adventure Date! at home with popcorn!
$72
A Day Trip To City Island!
In Adventure Date! Susan goes on a tinder date to City Island in the Bronx, so let me plan your City Island date adventure! I will send you my own personalized tips for what to do while on a bike adventure to City Island and I will make you a specialized Adventure Date! music playlist.
(all day trip expenses are not included)
$85
Tickets to an Adventure Date! Screening
Roll out the red carpet for a night on the town! You will receive a ticket to a future, extra special event screening of Adventure Date! in NYC! Let's mingle and be merry together!
Travel and hotel accomodations are not included.
$125
An Original Comedy Video
I will make you a 1 minute comedy video on the subject of your choosing! I make original instagram comedy videos on a variety of topics--they are usually expansions on specific topics like anxiety, moving homes, procrastination, but I will make one especially for you on any topic you like! As long as it's not mean spirited or offensive. My original comedy videos have been nominated for an Andy Kaufman Award, screened in various festivals, as well as featured on online venues like Jezebel and Bustle, among others. Let's collaborate and make comedy together!
$350
Holistic Health Counseling Session
60 minutes (can be completed virtually or in person, logistics permitting)
Elana Smith provides counseling in nutrition, herbal medicine, and seasonal living. She helps clients weave ritual and spirituality into self care practices, connect deeply to nature, and manifest goals with a combination of magic and practical action. Self care through food, medicine and connecting to the spirit of the seasons helps us optimize our emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being while also honing our sense of timing in order to actualize our dreams.
Elana is a certified holistic health counselor and educational therapist, as well as an herbalist and executive functioning coach based in New York City.
$500
Sound Healing
Enjoy a 60 minute sound healing session (can be completed virtually or in person, logistics permitting) with Alex Schechter---a level 3 certified Acutonics sound therapist.
Planetary tuning forks are an emerging technology used by physicians, nurses, body workers, and psychologists around the world to treat a wide range of physical and emotional patterns. In this particular system of sound healing, tuning forks are placed on the body (similar to acupuncture), where their vibrations interact with specific meridians, or energy channels.
Addiction, depression, insomnia, low self-esteem, back pain, migraines, eating disorders, and anxiety are just a few of the symptoms we deal with in Acutonics.
Acutonics is founded on Pythagoras' belief in the "music of the spheres," which states that every aspect of nature exists in harmony with the movements of the heavens. As above, so below.
Using planetary tuning forks, mantra, and guided meditation, Alex works individually with clients to embrace the transformative and activating power of sound. By 'tuning' our energies to the natural harmonic patterns of the cosmos, we are able to recall our own divine nature, and ultimately, become healers unto our selves.
For more info: www.earth2alexsound.com
$1,000
Associate Producer Credit! Hooray!
You will receive an associate producer credit--thank you so much! And welcome to the team!!! We are so thrilled to collaborate with you! Let's celebrate our accomplishment together!
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About This Team
Screenwriter/Actor (Susan): Lucy Cottrell
Lucy Cottrell is a comedian, writer, actor and artist. Her work has been featured in venues across the country including Slamdance Festival, Northside Festival, New Ohio Theater, Florida Film Festival, Club Cumming, Palmsprings Shortsfest, as well as in online venues like Jezebel and Reductress, among others. She's also worked as a comedic correspondent for Parent's Magazine, acted in the CBS TV show Unforgettable, and performed in commercials for Chipotle and MTV. And she recently performed a lead role in Horatio Baltz's 2019 film King Wah (I think I Love You) which won Best North American Short at Palm Springs International Shortfest. and she's performed as a finalist for the Andy Kaufman Award.
Director: Ginny Leise
Ginny Leise is filmmaker and comedian. She has written and created two short films, two full length comedy pilots and so many web series she has honestly lost count. Her first short, Pillows, won the Indieworks Best of Fest award in November 2015. Splitsider said of her second short, Smile, “...watch and be wowed.” Smile was a 2017 Official Selection at the Lower East Side Film Festival. Her comedy pilot Urban Teach Now is an 2016 Official Selection at the New York Television Festival, iTVFest and a third round finalist for the Sundance Episodic Story Lab in 2017. In 2017, Ginny made her directorial debut with the series Quiet Tiny Asian which racked up 150,000 views on YouTube. In 2018, Ginny directed and produced the comedy pilot Vows, which won Best Pilot at the DC Independent Film Festival.
Links to work:Producer: Callie Hanau
Callie Rose Hanau is a New York based creative with proud Pittsburgh roots. She got her start in filmmaking as an intern on the documentary This Changes Everything (Tom Donahue), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018. Since then, she has produced the award-winning series pilot VOWS, and began working with the folks at Meerkat Media (Dark Money, Island Soldier) as a Production Assistant and Associate Producer on projects centered around social and economic justice. Callie is currently finishing her first short documentary, SUPER, which is scheduled for completion in late 2019.
https://www.callierosehanau.com/
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