Set in the 1970s, Blackwell Summers Mysteries is an action web series revolving around the detective agency of Grace Blackwell and Raven Summers. This feisty duo fights injustice and gives a voice to the defenseless, using a combination of brute force, killer brains and unapologetic beauty.
Set in the 1970s, Blackwell Summers Mysteries is an action web series revolving around the detective agency of Grace Blackwell and Raven Summers. This feisty duo fights injustice and gives a voice to the defenseless, using a combination of brute force, killer brains and unapologetic beauty.
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About The Project
reelmavens is a production company founded by women seeking artistic empowerment through independent filmmaking. We encourage diversity and the participation of women in filmmaking, both in front of and behind the camera.
We produce work that explores the human condition and challenges traditional gender roles. We prosper by collaborating with like-minded artists and by pooling our resources to thrive artistically, socially and financially.
Blackwell Summers Mysteries is the first passion project of reelmavens. In taking on an initiatve to hire a predominately female crew, this project exemplifies our values and what we hope to accomplish as filmmakers.
We are storytellers who intend to imagine and create a world never before seen, while creating opportunites for other like-minded women in a male dominated industry.
Incentives
$5
Keepin' it real … Thanks for the 5 spot - air hugs from the girls coming your way!$10
I hear that ... thanks for the dime! Air hugs AND karma points - bonus!
$25
Heavy man ... air hugs, good karma points and a social media shout out on Twitter or Facebook!
$50
Gimme some skin man - for a 50, you get all the previous rewards AND one of the lady dectectives themselves will give you a video shout out on the social media platform of your choice! Hot ...
$100
Funk it out ... Not only will you get all previous rewards, you'll also get a thank you selfie from one of our glorious cast or crew members from set, both with social media shoutouts! Aw sooky sooky now ...
$150
Get down, get down ... you our darlins', will get everything listed in the $100 category plus Emily, our kick-ass Director, will record a personal ringtone with 70's slang for your phone. Tell her your favorite movie line or phrase/phrases and you'll be feelin' tha funk!
$300
Dig it - Special signed photo of the cast and crew AND a Q & A with the Director, Producers and Lead Actresses via Google Hangout. Not to mention the lovely items listed in the $150 reward category...
Claimed: 0 of 50
$500
Looo-king Gooood! One of our leading ladies will give you a personal 1-hour acting, audition or public speaking coaching session in addition to all the other rewards. Sizzlin' ...
*limited to $500 price point only.
Claimed: 0 of 20
$1,000
SPECIAL THANKS IN THE CREDITS
Right on!! Not only so you get all of the rewards listed at the $300 level, you get a special thanks in the credits of the pilot. Take your 15 minutes! Dy-no-mite!!!
Claimed: 0 of 15
$2,500
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
What's hangin?! Become an Associate Producer! Invitation to an early screening, plus all of the rewards at the $300 level, as well as your name in the credits and on IMDB as an Associate Producer. Do that thang!
Claimed: 0 of 5
$5,000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
What it is, what it IS!! You're an Executive Producer! You get an invitation to an early private screening, all of the above rewards, your name in the credits and on IMDB as an Executive Producer AND dinner in NYC with the lovely leading ladies. And let's just throw in invites to all the reelmavens' parties in 2015. Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Claimed: 0 of 4
$10,000
THAT'S THE JOINT!!!
For a donation of $10,000, you will get all the incentives listed above (including the Executive Producer credit) PLUS a walk-on role in the pilot, a night of dinner and dancing with the lovely leading ladies, an invitation to hang with the cast and crew at the wrap party AND your own personalized director's chair on set.
Sound as a pound baby, sound as a pound!
Claimed: 0 of 3
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$5
Keepin' it real … Thanks for the 5 spot - air hugs from the girls coming your way!$10
I hear that ... thanks for the dime! Air hugs AND karma points - bonus!
$25
Heavy man ... air hugs, good karma points and a social media shout out on Twitter or Facebook!
$50
Gimme some skin man - for a 50, you get all the previous rewards AND one of the lady dectectives themselves will give you a video shout out on the social media platform of your choice! Hot ...
$100
Funk it out ... Not only will you get all previous rewards, you'll also get a thank you selfie from one of our glorious cast or crew members from set, both with social media shoutouts! Aw sooky sooky now ...
$150
Get down, get down ... you our darlins', will get everything listed in the $100 category plus Emily, our kick-ass Director, will record a personal ringtone with 70's slang for your phone. Tell her your favorite movie line or phrase/phrases and you'll be feelin' tha funk!
$300
Dig it - Special signed photo of the cast and crew AND a Q & A with the Director, Producers and Lead Actresses via Google Hangout. Not to mention the lovely items listed in the $150 reward category...
Claimed: 0 of 50
$500
Looo-king Gooood! One of our leading ladies will give you a personal 1-hour acting, audition or public speaking coaching session in addition to all the other rewards. Sizzlin' ...
*limited to $500 price point only.
Claimed: 0 of 20
$1,000
SPECIAL THANKS IN THE CREDITS
Right on!! Not only so you get all of the rewards listed at the $300 level, you get a special thanks in the credits of the pilot. Take your 15 minutes! Dy-no-mite!!!
Claimed: 0 of 15
$2,500
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
What's hangin?! Become an Associate Producer! Invitation to an early screening, plus all of the rewards at the $300 level, as well as your name in the credits and on IMDB as an Associate Producer. Do that thang!
Claimed: 0 of 5
$5,000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
What it is, what it IS!! You're an Executive Producer! You get an invitation to an early private screening, all of the above rewards, your name in the credits and on IMDB as an Executive Producer AND dinner in NYC with the lovely leading ladies. And let's just throw in invites to all the reelmavens' parties in 2015. Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Claimed: 0 of 4
$10,000
THAT'S THE JOINT!!!
For a donation of $10,000, you will get all the incentives listed above (including the Executive Producer credit) PLUS a walk-on role in the pilot, a night of dinner and dancing with the lovely leading ladies, an invitation to hang with the cast and crew at the wrap party AND your own personalized director's chair on set.
Sound as a pound baby, sound as a pound!
Claimed: 0 of 3
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About This Team
EMILY DELL: DIRECTOR
Emily Dell is an action and dance Film Director and Screenwriter. Her last feature, B-GIRL, about a talented young dancer in the male-dominated breakdance world, airs on Showtime, Starz and Encore Networks, won “BEST FEATURE” at the LA Femme Film Festival and was released worldwide. Recent action short film BATTLE was profiled by H.Brothers TV 189 (China) and THE COMPASS ROSE won “BEST ACTION” at the 2014 Buffalo Niagara Film Festival. Currently she is under contract to write and direct THE RULES OF BUSINESS with The China Film Corporation (The Karate Kid, etc). Partnered with her sister and Producer, Elizabeth Dell, they are featured in the National Women’s History Museum in Washington D.C. Emily has directed audiobooks and lectured in film for New York Film Academy, 85 Broads, The Screen Actors Guild and National University. Awards include The Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency for Screenwriting, the Writers Colony Dairy Hollow residency and The Writer’s Arc Screenplay Fellowship. Her screenplay TIGER MOTHER was awarded a 2014 Producer’s Guild of America Fellowship to producer Elizabeth Dell. Past films have won “Audience Award”, H20 Festival New York City, “Best in Festival, Short” Berkeley Film Festival, “Best Screenplay, Short” and have been profiled at The American Cinematheque. Emily studied film at New York University and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley and lives in Los Angeles. http://emilydell.com/
RAUSHANAH SIMMONS: WRITER/PRODUCER/LEAD ACTRESS
Raushanah Simmons is a New York based actress working professionally in the industry in film, television and theater. She has had the privilege of working in numerous theatrical projects over the years including most recently Annie (in theaters December 2014), The Other Woman (20th Century Fox), The Blacklist (NBC), Hostages (CBS) and Do No Harm (NBC). Some of her favorite theater credits include In the Red and Brown Water (Studio Theater, DC), Mother Courage (NYSF), ScreenPlay (Flea Theater), The Lesser Seductions of History (FLUX Theatre Ensemble), The Tempest (Public Theatre Shakespeare Lab). Raushanah has also be seen in numerous national commercials. She is proud member of SAG-Aftra and Actor’s Equity. www.raushanah.com http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2820748/
REBECCA NYAHAY: PRODUCER/LEAD ACTRESS
Rebecca Nyahay is a hard working actor/producer/director who is dedicated to the development of new work that has a lasting social impact. Rebecca has acted in/directed over 75 one-act and full length plays over the past 10 years and produced a number of one-act festivals and a few short films. She produced and starred in the short film, The Ribbon, and appears as Nikki in the web series Haywire (www.haywireseries.com). Some past favorite roles include White in Blacken the Bubble, C.B. in Street Theater, Carol in North of Providence, Lady MacBeth in MacBeth, Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive, Joan in Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Rosemary in Rosemary with Ginger. Rebecca is a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio, a LAByrinth Master Class Alumni and works with Barefoot Theatre Company. @RebeccaNyahay www.rebeccanyahay.com http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3352896/
DAVID ANZEULO: ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/FIGHT-DIRECTOR
David is an actor/fight-director/playwright/song-writer with experience in film, television, stage and music and Interested in collaborations with like-minded artists of all mediums. David is the founder of UnkleDave's Fight-House Stage Combat Company, a team of fight directors for hire who create illusions of violence for theater, film, music videos and web series. As a singer/song writer, David has fronted the alt-rock bands MonsterRally, CaveHound. Other music collaborations include The Gotham Roots Orchestra, Izzi Ramkissoon, rap artist Anonymous (And On I Must) and Greencard Wedding. He has performed at Performed at Ella Lounge, Dixon Place, New Federal Theater, INTAR New Music Fest, CenterStageNY, The Public Theater, Labyrinth Theater Company's Music Night and Culturefix. Music video appearances : Glitter Sky by I Love You Airlines; Song & Dance by Anonymous (And. On.I.Must). He offers Artist's Shamanic Journey workshops for the manifestation of artistic endeavors; Personal Myth movement classes and stage-combat workshops. And has given guest-artist workshops at Columbia University; New York University, DePaul University, Connecticut College and Bard College at both undergrad and graduate levels. David has trained in Dragon's Gate Qi Gong ; am attuned to Reiki Level 1 and I hold a 2nd degree black belt in WTF (Olympic Style) Taekwondo. "Like" our fan page on Facebook: Unkle Dave's Fight-House. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0031771/
ASYA DANILOVA: STILL PHOTOGRAPHER
Asya Danilova was born and raised in Russia. Now I live in the US and work as a still photographer on movie sets. She studied Liberal Arts and Sciences in Saint Petersburg State University, focusing on classes in art history and photography. Asya continued this way for about two years until she accidentally took a class on film. After which, her life was never the same. Asya’s knowledge of film history and passion for photography determines the work she does today. She loves working with talented and devoted people and capturing their beautiful work.
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