All I Really Want
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
LGBTQ, Comedy
From the outside, they’re a happily married straight couple on a road trip. In reality, they’re two people unsure of what their future holds as they journey to their first threesome.
All I Really Want
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
LGBTQ, Comedy
1 Campaigns | California, United States
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From the outside, they’re a happily married straight couple on a road trip. In reality, they’re two people unsure of what their future holds as they journey to their first threesome.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
After 6 years of dating and 2 years of marriage, everything is going fine for Jessie and Paul. But Jessie’s bisexual curiosities, which started as a whisper and grew into a raging scream, won’t stop tugging at her. She’s found herself in a sticky situation — needing to experience sleeping with a woman, while wanting to stay in her marriage with Paul. Paul, the ever supportive husband, is along for the ride as they travel together for one night in Joshua Tree to meet Sophie, a girl they met on a “throuple” app. But right after hitting the road, they remember that Paul’s Mom’s birthday is the next day and they forgot to get her a gift. This launches them into a panic, forcing them to juggle devising the perfect gift for Barb while preparing for a potentially life-altering experience for Jessie — all wrapped up in one chaotic drive.
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I realized I was gay when I was 12 years old. The discovery of my sexuality came in tandem with my puberty — and it felt like all my feelings were just thrown into a blender, happening everywhere all at once. But, that was par for the course for my age, when your primary purpose is to figure out who you are. Even though it was confusing at times, I feel fortunate that a big part of my self-discovery came before the inherent pressure of “knowing who you are” in adulthood – when all your “coming-of-age woes” are meant to be behind you.
Now I’m 34, living with my wife and dog — but have been thinking a lot about how difficult it could be to come out later in life, and the paradox of monogamy and bi-sexuality.
I wrote ALL I REALLY WANT to hopefully give voice to this very complicated and very common experience. Just like Alanis Morissette belts in her banger (and my personal anthem) "All I Really Want", sometimes it feels like what you want is simple — but actually going after it is nearly impossible. I hope this film rings true to that experience and encourages people to continue "coming of age" at all ages and stages of life.
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ALL I REALLY WANT is an homage to the classic road trip film, where the lengths of the emotional journey happening within the car outweighs the physical distance of the trip. That gritty, messy, almost sweaty feeling from days of proximity that we felt from LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, THELMA & LOUISE, and CROSSROADS (yes, a classic). But it’s balanced with the whimsical, winding conversational curiosities from the BEFORE SUNRISE TRILOGY and WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. As Jessie and Paul leave LA and get closer to Joshua Tree, their raw emotions will reflect their bare surroundings — where everything is out in the open, literally.
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ALL WE REALLY WANT is $15K to reach our final production budget. We have already raised a significant amount of our funding, but we need this to get us to the finish line.
Supporting this campaign doesn’t just help us get it made, it also supports indie filmmaking and the artists behind it. Every donation goes straight to production essentials, such as equipment rentals, securing locations, and editing the final cut. It truly makes a huge difference — thank you for being part of it.
If you don’t have the means to donate at this time, we would love it if you’d consider sharing our campaign on social media or with friends and family. It will be every bit as helpful to spread the word!
Follow our Instagram page @allireallywant_film for updates, campaign shoutouts, behind the scenes content, & more. Or shoot us an email at [email protected]
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Wishlist
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ABOVE THE LINE
Costs $3,793
Includes paying our cast and crew, and covering travel & accommodations for production.
PRODUCTION
Costs $5,621
Includes equipment, locations, permits, and production design.
POST-PRODUCTION EXPENSES
Costs $2,893
Includes film editing, music, and music rights.
OTHER EXPENSES
Costs $3,193
Includes insurance and festival submission fees.
Cash Pledge
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About This Team
Emily Skeggs can currently be found on HULU in the lead role in the feature film, DINNER IN AMERICA, produced by Ben Stiller, which competed at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, in the HULU feature film THE ULTIMATE PLAYLIST OF NOISE, and a lead role opposite Marcia Gay Harden in LOVE YOU TO DEATH for Lifetime and Sony. She was fantastic opposite Chloe Grace Moretz in Desiree Akhavan’s THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. They were also seen in Pete Berg’s feature film, MILE 22, opposite Mark Walhberg. In TV, Emily starred as one of the leads in Dustin Lance Black's eight-part ABC miniseries, WHEN WE RISE, directed by Gus van Sant, playing the young version of Mary-Louise Parker’s “Roma” character. Emily was nominated for dual Tony and Grammy Awards for her performance in Sam Gold’s hit Broadway musical, FUN HOME, which she did while shooting a recurring role on Brannan Braga’s series, SALEM. They can usually be found talking to the plants on a micro farm in Los Angeles, she recently taught her cats to sit.
IG: @edskeggs
On television, Theo stars as Josh, one of the leads of Netflix’s Bonding, the recurring character of Jacob in WeCrashed (Apple TV+) opposite Jared Leto & Anne Hathaway, & most recently the main antagonist Ezra Fisher in Alaska Daily (ABC), starring Hilary Swank. Other select credits include Inside Amy Schumer, High Maintenance, Private Practice, The Following, Shades Of Blue, Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Nurse Jackie, 30ROCK, & Stephen King’s film A Good Marriage. He’s been on Broadway in the original casts of the Public Theater’s revival of HAIR, Green Day’s American Idiot, & Duncan Sheik’s American Psycho. Off-Broadway, Theo has most recently starred in Tarik Trotter’s Black No More (Signature Theatre/New Group), & as Caliban in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Public Theater). Upcoming: Only Murders In The Building, opposite Meryl Streep & Martin Short.
IG: @theo_stockman
Zoe Travis is an Emmy-nominated producer and development executive with 10+ years in the TV and Film industry. Zoe has recently founded her own production company, Secret Weapon. Most recently, Zoe produced the live broadcast of the 2024 ROSE PARADE. Prior to that, she was the Development Director at Matador Content, where she developed multiple projects in the unscripted space for networks such as Hulu, Peacock, History, A&E, and Apple.
Prior to Matador, Zoe developed and sold her first scripted project TAB TIME WITH TABITHA BROWN to YouTube Originals. This landed her an Emmy nomination as a producer for Outstanding Preschool Series. Tab Time also won the NAACP Image Award for Best Children’s Program. Other scripted projects she produced include TURNT UP WITH THE TAYLORS with Keke Palmer for Facebook Watch and THE YOU AND ME SHOW for Snapchat Originals.
IG: @zoetravis_
Jack is often referred to (quite aptly perhaps) as a jack-of-all-trades in filmmaking— often taking on multiple roles as a director, producer, cinematographer, and/or editor.
In everyone’s favorite year, 2020, Jack edited sketches for Saturday Night Live. Along with the other editors from the first at-home SNL episode, he was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Variety/Talk Sketch Show. Jack has directed, shot, and/or edited projects with funny people like Chloe Fineman, John Early, Wayne Brady, Charles Rogers, Bridey Elliot, Abby Elliot, Patti Harrison, and Brittany Broski.
In addition to the comedy shenanigans, Jack does a lot of client work through his freelance video production business— working with all sorts of corporate and small business clients to produce story-driven and cinematic videos for their brands. He also works closely with showrunners and film/television executives to create sizzles and high end visuals for pitch decks, most recently for studios Media Res, Fifth Season, 20th and production companies like Semi Formal, Broadway Video, and Irony Point.
In 2015, Jack’s film was a semi-finalist in the Student Academy Awards. Since then, his narrative short films have played in the Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival, and LA Shorts International Film Festival, to name a few.
Recently, Jack was an executive producer on the second season of Curious Case of Natalia Grace which garnered over 10 million viewers across linear and streaming platforms Max and Discovery+.
IG: @jackklink
Katya Kaminsky is an award-winning filmmaker and development executive based in Los Angeles. Katya got her start in musical theatre performing with The Young Americans for a number of years before graduating Summa Cum Laude from Emerson College with a B.A. in Film & Television. A co-founder of the female-led production company Secret Weapon, she has held development executive roles at some of the industry’s most respected production companies, including Magical Elves (Top Chef, Project Runway), Maven (The Marriage Pact), and Matador Content (Lip Sync Battle, Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry). Throughout her career, she has worked with high-caliber talent both in front of and behind the camera to create and sell various TV shows, movies, and digital content. She has a passion for telling stories, utilizing unique visual languages, and aims to create progressive media with an activist voice that will help others and incite positive social change. In her free time, she can be seen taking thousands of photos she’ll never edit and singing loudly at her cats.
Credits include Go-Big Show (TBS), The Kids Tonight Show (Peacock), Home Is Where The Heart Is (Hallmark+), Dear… (AppleTV+), and the Emmy nominated Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (AppleTV+).
IG: @kateeyah
Paige is a Los Angeles-based producer and filmmaker drawn to emotionally resonant, culturally driven stories. She recently produced Obscura, a short film set for release later this year, and brings a sharp creative eye and deep story instincts to every project—scripted or unscripted.
Previously, Paige worked at Maven, an all-female production company known for pop-culture-forward, thought-provoking content. There, she worked on projects like the true crime docu-series Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth and the dating series The Marriage Pact for Roku.
Prior to Maven, Paige was an intern at the award-winning Motto Pictures, supporting docs like Love to Love You, Donna Summer, The Return of Tanya Tucker, and The Velvet Underground.
IG: @paige_lizzz
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
After 6 years of dating and 2 years of marriage, everything is going fine for Jessie and Paul. But Jessie’s bisexual curiosities, which started as a whisper and grew into a raging scream, won’t stop tugging at her. She’s found herself in a sticky situation — needing to experience sleeping with a woman, while wanting to stay in her marriage with Paul. Paul, the ever supportive husband, is along for the ride as they travel together for one night in Joshua Tree to meet Sophie, a girl they met on a “throuple” app. But right after hitting the road, they remember that Paul’s Mom’s birthday is the next day and they forgot to get her a gift. This launches them into a panic, forcing them to juggle devising the perfect gift for Barb while preparing for a potentially life-altering experience for Jessie — all wrapped up in one chaotic drive.
I realized I was gay when I was 12 years old. The discovery of my sexuality came in tandem with my puberty — and it felt like all my feelings were just thrown into a blender, happening everywhere all at once. But, that was par for the course for my age, when your primary purpose is to figure out who you are. Even though it was confusing at times, I feel fortunate that a big part of my self-discovery came before the inherent pressure of “knowing who you are” in adulthood – when all your “coming-of-age woes” are meant to be behind you.
Now I’m 34, living with my wife and dog — but have been thinking a lot about how difficult it could be to come out later in life, and the paradox of monogamy and bi-sexuality.
I wrote ALL I REALLY WANT to hopefully give voice to this very complicated and very common experience. Just like Alanis Morissette belts in her banger (and my personal anthem) "All I Really Want", sometimes it feels like what you want is simple — but actually going after it is nearly impossible. I hope this film rings true to that experience and encourages people to continue "coming of age" at all ages and stages of life.
ALL I REALLY WANT is an homage to the classic road trip film, where the lengths of the emotional journey happening within the car outweighs the physical distance of the trip. That gritty, messy, almost sweaty feeling from days of proximity that we felt from LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, THELMA & LOUISE, and CROSSROADS (yes, a classic). But it’s balanced with the whimsical, winding conversational curiosities from the BEFORE SUNRISE TRILOGY and WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. As Jessie and Paul leave LA and get closer to Joshua Tree, their raw emotions will reflect their bare surroundings — where everything is out in the open, literally.
ALL WE REALLY WANT is $15K to reach our final production budget. We have already raised a significant amount of our funding, but we need this to get us to the finish line.
Supporting this campaign doesn’t just help us get it made, it also supports indie filmmaking and the artists behind it. Every donation goes straight to production essentials, such as equipment rentals, securing locations, and editing the final cut. It truly makes a huge difference — thank you for being part of it.
If you don’t have the means to donate at this time, we would love it if you’d consider sharing our campaign on social media or with friends and family. It will be every bit as helpful to spread the word!
Follow our Instagram page @allireallywant_film for updates, campaign shoutouts, behind the scenes content, & more. Or shoot us an email at [email protected]
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
ABOVE THE LINE
Costs $3,793
Includes paying our cast and crew, and covering travel & accommodations for production.
PRODUCTION
Costs $5,621
Includes equipment, locations, permits, and production design.
POST-PRODUCTION EXPENSES
Costs $2,893
Includes film editing, music, and music rights.
OTHER EXPENSES
Costs $3,193
Includes insurance and festival submission fees.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Emily Skeggs can currently be found on HULU in the lead role in the feature film, DINNER IN AMERICA, produced by Ben Stiller, which competed at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, in the HULU feature film THE ULTIMATE PLAYLIST OF NOISE, and a lead role opposite Marcia Gay Harden in LOVE YOU TO DEATH for Lifetime and Sony. She was fantastic opposite Chloe Grace Moretz in Desiree Akhavan’s THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. They were also seen in Pete Berg’s feature film, MILE 22, opposite Mark Walhberg. In TV, Emily starred as one of the leads in Dustin Lance Black's eight-part ABC miniseries, WHEN WE RISE, directed by Gus van Sant, playing the young version of Mary-Louise Parker’s “Roma” character. Emily was nominated for dual Tony and Grammy Awards for her performance in Sam Gold’s hit Broadway musical, FUN HOME, which she did while shooting a recurring role on Brannan Braga’s series, SALEM. They can usually be found talking to the plants on a micro farm in Los Angeles, she recently taught her cats to sit.
IG: @edskeggs
On television, Theo stars as Josh, one of the leads of Netflix’s Bonding, the recurring character of Jacob in WeCrashed (Apple TV+) opposite Jared Leto & Anne Hathaway, & most recently the main antagonist Ezra Fisher in Alaska Daily (ABC), starring Hilary Swank. Other select credits include Inside Amy Schumer, High Maintenance, Private Practice, The Following, Shades Of Blue, Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Nurse Jackie, 30ROCK, & Stephen King’s film A Good Marriage. He’s been on Broadway in the original casts of the Public Theater’s revival of HAIR, Green Day’s American Idiot, & Duncan Sheik’s American Psycho. Off-Broadway, Theo has most recently starred in Tarik Trotter’s Black No More (Signature Theatre/New Group), & as Caliban in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Public Theater). Upcoming: Only Murders In The Building, opposite Meryl Streep & Martin Short.
IG: @theo_stockman
Zoe Travis is an Emmy-nominated producer and development executive with 10+ years in the TV and Film industry. Zoe has recently founded her own production company, Secret Weapon. Most recently, Zoe produced the live broadcast of the 2024 ROSE PARADE. Prior to that, she was the Development Director at Matador Content, where she developed multiple projects in the unscripted space for networks such as Hulu, Peacock, History, A&E, and Apple.
Prior to Matador, Zoe developed and sold her first scripted project TAB TIME WITH TABITHA BROWN to YouTube Originals. This landed her an Emmy nomination as a producer for Outstanding Preschool Series. Tab Time also won the NAACP Image Award for Best Children’s Program. Other scripted projects she produced include TURNT UP WITH THE TAYLORS with Keke Palmer for Facebook Watch and THE YOU AND ME SHOW for Snapchat Originals.
IG: @zoetravis_
Jack is often referred to (quite aptly perhaps) as a jack-of-all-trades in filmmaking— often taking on multiple roles as a director, producer, cinematographer, and/or editor.
In everyone’s favorite year, 2020, Jack edited sketches for Saturday Night Live. Along with the other editors from the first at-home SNL episode, he was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Variety/Talk Sketch Show. Jack has directed, shot, and/or edited projects with funny people like Chloe Fineman, John Early, Wayne Brady, Charles Rogers, Bridey Elliot, Abby Elliot, Patti Harrison, and Brittany Broski.
In addition to the comedy shenanigans, Jack does a lot of client work through his freelance video production business— working with all sorts of corporate and small business clients to produce story-driven and cinematic videos for their brands. He also works closely with showrunners and film/television executives to create sizzles and high end visuals for pitch decks, most recently for studios Media Res, Fifth Season, 20th and production companies like Semi Formal, Broadway Video, and Irony Point.
In 2015, Jack’s film was a semi-finalist in the Student Academy Awards. Since then, his narrative short films have played in the Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival, and LA Shorts International Film Festival, to name a few.
Recently, Jack was an executive producer on the second season of Curious Case of Natalia Grace which garnered over 10 million viewers across linear and streaming platforms Max and Discovery+.
IG: @jackklink
Katya Kaminsky is an award-winning filmmaker and development executive based in Los Angeles. Katya got her start in musical theatre performing with The Young Americans for a number of years before graduating Summa Cum Laude from Emerson College with a B.A. in Film & Television. A co-founder of the female-led production company Secret Weapon, she has held development executive roles at some of the industry’s most respected production companies, including Magical Elves (Top Chef, Project Runway), Maven (The Marriage Pact), and Matador Content (Lip Sync Battle, Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry). Throughout her career, she has worked with high-caliber talent both in front of and behind the camera to create and sell various TV shows, movies, and digital content. She has a passion for telling stories, utilizing unique visual languages, and aims to create progressive media with an activist voice that will help others and incite positive social change. In her free time, she can be seen taking thousands of photos she’ll never edit and singing loudly at her cats.
Credits include Go-Big Show (TBS), The Kids Tonight Show (Peacock), Home Is Where The Heart Is (Hallmark+), Dear… (AppleTV+), and the Emmy nominated Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (AppleTV+).
IG: @kateeyah
Paige is a Los Angeles-based producer and filmmaker drawn to emotionally resonant, culturally driven stories. She recently produced Obscura, a short film set for release later this year, and brings a sharp creative eye and deep story instincts to every project—scripted or unscripted.
Previously, Paige worked at Maven, an all-female production company known for pop-culture-forward, thought-provoking content. There, she worked on projects like the true crime docu-series Taken Together: Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth and the dating series The Marriage Pact for Roku.
Prior to Maven, Paige was an intern at the award-winning Motto Pictures, supporting docs like Love to Love You, Donna Summer, The Return of Tanya Tucker, and The Velvet Underground.
IG: @paige_lizzz