Bloom
New York City, New York | Film Short
Drama
BLOOM is the story of a young girl’s journey through her PTSD as she tries to reconcile with generational trauma. I want to explore how pain affects our relationship to our inner selves and thus how we see the world.
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BLOOM is the story of a young girl’s journey through her PTSD as she tries to reconcile with generational trauma. I want to explore how pain affects our relationship to our inner selves and thus how we see the world.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
It’s a regular day for Rylie, a sixteen-year-old highschooler, until she gets a voicemail from her estranged father asking for forgiveness, a step in his AA recovery. She seems unaffected at first, until she snaps moments later and beats up her fellow classmate. Deep in trouble - this hasn’t been her first physical outburst - Rylie flees the principal’s office and takes the train to her hometown where her dad is in Upstate New York. On this single night, Rylie finds herself on a journey of self exploration through generational trauma and abuse, searching for where the toxic parts of herself were born and now live.
Your contribution will go to paying everyone on set, securing state of the art equipment, making sure everyone is Covid safe, and ensuring we make an incredible and impactful film.
BLOOM is fiscally sponsored by New York Women in Film and Television , a 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax deductible.
STORY:
Rylie is drowning in generational trauma and is beginning to adopt it as her own. She feels the weight of her father’s abuse and wonders if a strand of his toxicity lurks deep inside her. Rylie’s curiosity lures her into dangerous situations, as she dares to explore the layers of her own darkness.
Jim, Rylie’s dad, spent most of his life being physically and mentally abusive to his family. Now in his mid-forties, he is an active member of his AA community and is searching for redemption. While he genuinely wants to be a better person, he fears his inner demons.
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Clay, in his late twenties/early thirties, is Jim’s sponsee. He has a brutal past and has found solace in AA. With a tough exterior, he relishes being honest during the meetings, taking a sick pride in his perverse history.
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He and Rylie recognize something in each other and they have an immediate connection. They collide, both coming from the middle of their own tumult, and challenge each other's limits.
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The film will primarily be shot handheld to convey an atmosphere of naturalism and the sense that Rylie feels displaced as she drifts through the world.
Wide shots, where Rylie is small in the looming, surrounding environments, will convey loneliness, while intimate close-ups will have us identify with her perspective.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
This is a coming-of-age tale about recognizing an ancestral pollution that leaves fingerprints on your skin. I want to make something that appreciates the complications of realizing self destructive behavior and illustrates the nuanced condition of being a victim of abuse and then becoming an abuser. This cycle is a huge part of our cultural identity, not to mention personal lives (in one way or another). Yet, this cycle is hardly talked about in an honest way. Rylie is experiencing a need to identify as a victim and yet also as an offender, and thus in a perverse and tragically human way: be whole. That feeling is the life blood of the film.
My vision is to create an honest story about the cycle of abuse and how it interweaves within the main characters. I want this story to be an unflinching portrait of generational trauma. I want to portray an honest character who is drowning in a sea of her own past. This cycle of abuse touches so many people, and I want to talk about it.
BUDGET:
Check out exactly where your donation will be going! Here is our budget to make BLOOM:
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Production Staaff
Costs $600
We want to pay the people who organize the production and make sure evee\rything runs smoothly!
Art Department
Costs $3,120
We want to pay the department that makes sure everything on screen looks interesting and magical!
Camera Department
Costs $3,590
We want to make sure to capture this story with a fantastic camera and camera department!
Sound Department
Costs $1,120
We want to capture the sound of the movie with an incredible sound department!
Locations
Costs $2,464
We would love beautiful locations to shoot the movie in!
Transportation
Costs $1,315
We need to be able to get out cast and crew to and from locations!
Hair and Makeup
Costs $950
We want to tell this story through the way our actors look and the bruises they have.
Insurance
Costs $2,500
We need to make sure the entire production is insured!
Cast!
Costs $3,267
We want to get fantastic actors to portray these characters and tell this story!
Post Production
Costs $1,000
This will go to pay for sound, color and editing to finish the film once the movie is done shooting!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Chloë Levine
Director/Writer
Chloë Levine is an actress and filmmaker who has shown her versatility in film and television. Levine was recently seen in Rhys Ernst’s ADAM, marking her Sundance Film Festival debut. She received critical acclaim for her performance in THE RANGER, which premiered at South by Southwest, and THE TRANSFIGURATION, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Current projects for Levine include Netflix’s TRINKETS, THE OA and THE SOCIETY. Levine acts in indie feature FROTH AND BUBBLE for which she also produces, and ANTARCTICA for which she also executive produces. Levine is also currently working on feature film ALASKA which she stars in and executive produces.
Levine also starred in films: SAVAGE YOUTH, NO ALTERNATIVE and ASK FOR JANE. Other acting credits include Netflix/Marvel’s THE DEFENDERS, CBS’ BULL, HBO’s HIGH MAINTENANCE and THE DEUCE, and USA Network’s MR. ROBOT.
Levine made her directorial debut with her short film DRAGON, which won the 2014 Tribeca Film Institute “Our City, My Story” Award for Best Experimental Short.
Kim Jackson
Producer
Kim got her start in LA at Disney/Touchstone Television, and joined the local 161 while working in New York at Universal Pictures for Steven Spielberg (MUNICH) and Spike Lee (INSIDE MAN). Striking out on her own in New York, she founded Streetwise Pictures now Evotion Media, and her critically acclaimed production, BLUE CAPRICE- seen in theaters across the country- premiered at Sundance and was the opening night film at New Directors/New Films at MoMA. The same year, Kim was nominated for a Spirit Award for producing. She has been the driving force behind more than a dozen award-winning and theatrically released independent films. Frustrated with the lack of revenue reporting and accountability, she co-founded SingularDTV/Breaker Studios, a blockchain “Entech” studio, building rights (tracking), revenue and royalty payment software operated by blockchain technology.
As the head of Breaker Studios, she oversaw the production and distribution of feature films from around the world. Breaker's productions include a slate of critically acclaimed films, including Alex Winter's feature documentary TRUST MACHINE: THE STORY OF BLOCKCHAIN, STRIDING INTO THE WIND (YE MA FEN ZONG) official selection for Cannes 2020, the festival darling LA FORTALEZA that premiered in competition at Rotterdam 2020, and the audience favorite ANTARCTICA, directed by Keith Bearden (Meet Monica Velour). Award winning DOWN WITH THE KING premiered at Cannes 2021 and received NYT Critic Pick and is available on VOD. Kim is a PGA member, a board member of New York Women in Film & Television, an Artist Academy member of Film at Lincoln Center and an alumnus of Simmons University, serving on the Dean's Council of the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Arts and Humanities, as well as an active board member of ACE Programs for the Homeless.
Patrick Nichols
Producer
Patrick Nichols is a film producer and editor living in New York City where he recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Producing from Columbia University.
Born and raised in North Carolina, he has worked all over the world as a videographer for musical acts John Mayer and Walk The Moon. As an Editor and Assistant Editor, Patrick has crafted videos for clients such as Apple Music, Major League Soccer, and PBS North Carolina.
In addition to this work, he’s produced several short films, including Inoculation, which received a Professional Development grant from the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County and premiered at the 2020 RiverRun International Film Festival before screening at virtual film festivals in the U.S. and internationally.
As an MFA student, Patrick was accepted into the 2021 Sloan Production Mentorship Program, is a recipient of The 2021 Michael Hausman/Filmhaus Foundation Award, and was a finalist for the 2022 Debra Hill Fellowship. He is currently overseeing post-production on several short films he produced, including: Palm Sunday, which received grant funding from Columbia University, the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Mentorship and Development Prize, and the YoungArts Foundation; Choke Hold, which received and Indian Paintbrush grant; Wednesday Night, Fremantle which received funding from the Robert Gore Rifkind Queer Production grant; and Good Dog, which received a Sarah Jones Film Student Safety Grant.
Henry Roosevelt
Cinematographer
Henry is an award winning filmmaker. His past work has played Tribeca, SXSW, and won Santa Barbara Film Festival and USA Film Festival. His first documentary feature film, Tough Guys, was purchased and distributed by Showtime. He is currently wrapping a feature documentary for Netflix. He has shot and produced multiple projects/commercials for HBO, ESPN, Estée Lauder, and Toyota. He’s “beyond excited to help Chloe’s vision in creating a short with poignancy and supporting her thoughtful and unflinching perspective. Chloe has something to say - it permeates in the script and her description of her vision.”
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
It’s a regular day for Rylie, a sixteen-year-old highschooler, until she gets a voicemail from her estranged father asking for forgiveness, a step in his AA recovery. She seems unaffected at first, until she snaps moments later and beats up her fellow classmate. Deep in trouble - this hasn’t been her first physical outburst - Rylie flees the principal’s office and takes the train to her hometown where her dad is in Upstate New York. On this single night, Rylie finds herself on a journey of self exploration through generational trauma and abuse, searching for where the toxic parts of herself were born and now live.
Your contribution will go to paying everyone on set, securing state of the art equipment, making sure everyone is Covid safe, and ensuring we make an incredible and impactful film.
BLOOM is fiscally sponsored by New York Women in Film and Television , a 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax deductible.
STORY:
Rylie is drowning in generational trauma and is beginning to adopt it as her own. She feels the weight of her father’s abuse and wonders if a strand of his toxicity lurks deep inside her. Rylie’s curiosity lures her into dangerous situations, as she dares to explore the layers of her own darkness.
Jim, Rylie’s dad, spent most of his life being physically and mentally abusive to his family. Now in his mid-forties, he is an active member of his AA community and is searching for redemption. While he genuinely wants to be a better person, he fears his inner demons.
Clay, in his late twenties/early thirties, is Jim’s sponsee. He has a brutal past and has found solace in AA. With a tough exterior, he relishes being honest during the meetings, taking a sick pride in his perverse history.
He and Rylie recognize something in each other and they have an immediate connection. They collide, both coming from the middle of their own tumult, and challenge each other's limits.
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The film will primarily be shot handheld to convey an atmosphere of naturalism and the sense that Rylie feels displaced as she drifts through the world.
Wide shots, where Rylie is small in the looming, surrounding environments, will convey loneliness, while intimate close-ups will have us identify with her perspective.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
This is a coming-of-age tale about recognizing an ancestral pollution that leaves fingerprints on your skin. I want to make something that appreciates the complications of realizing self destructive behavior and illustrates the nuanced condition of being a victim of abuse and then becoming an abuser. This cycle is a huge part of our cultural identity, not to mention personal lives (in one way or another). Yet, this cycle is hardly talked about in an honest way. Rylie is experiencing a need to identify as a victim and yet also as an offender, and thus in a perverse and tragically human way: be whole. That feeling is the life blood of the film.
My vision is to create an honest story about the cycle of abuse and how it interweaves within the main characters. I want this story to be an unflinching portrait of generational trauma. I want to portray an honest character who is drowning in a sea of her own past. This cycle of abuse touches so many people, and I want to talk about it.
BUDGET:
Check out exactly where your donation will be going! Here is our budget to make BLOOM:
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Production Staaff
Costs $600
We want to pay the people who organize the production and make sure evee\rything runs smoothly!
Art Department
Costs $3,120
We want to pay the department that makes sure everything on screen looks interesting and magical!
Camera Department
Costs $3,590
We want to make sure to capture this story with a fantastic camera and camera department!
Sound Department
Costs $1,120
We want to capture the sound of the movie with an incredible sound department!
Locations
Costs $2,464
We would love beautiful locations to shoot the movie in!
Transportation
Costs $1,315
We need to be able to get out cast and crew to and from locations!
Hair and Makeup
Costs $950
We want to tell this story through the way our actors look and the bruises they have.
Insurance
Costs $2,500
We need to make sure the entire production is insured!
Cast!
Costs $3,267
We want to get fantastic actors to portray these characters and tell this story!
Post Production
Costs $1,000
This will go to pay for sound, color and editing to finish the film once the movie is done shooting!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Chloë Levine
Director/Writer
Chloë Levine is an actress and filmmaker who has shown her versatility in film and television. Levine was recently seen in Rhys Ernst’s ADAM, marking her Sundance Film Festival debut. She received critical acclaim for her performance in THE RANGER, which premiered at South by Southwest, and THE TRANSFIGURATION, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Current projects for Levine include Netflix’s TRINKETS, THE OA and THE SOCIETY. Levine acts in indie feature FROTH AND BUBBLE for which she also produces, and ANTARCTICA for which she also executive produces. Levine is also currently working on feature film ALASKA which she stars in and executive produces.
Levine also starred in films: SAVAGE YOUTH, NO ALTERNATIVE and ASK FOR JANE. Other acting credits include Netflix/Marvel’s THE DEFENDERS, CBS’ BULL, HBO’s HIGH MAINTENANCE and THE DEUCE, and USA Network’s MR. ROBOT.
Levine made her directorial debut with her short film DRAGON, which won the 2014 Tribeca Film Institute “Our City, My Story” Award for Best Experimental Short.
Kim Jackson
Producer
Kim got her start in LA at Disney/Touchstone Television, and joined the local 161 while working in New York at Universal Pictures for Steven Spielberg (MUNICH) and Spike Lee (INSIDE MAN). Striking out on her own in New York, she founded Streetwise Pictures now Evotion Media, and her critically acclaimed production, BLUE CAPRICE- seen in theaters across the country- premiered at Sundance and was the opening night film at New Directors/New Films at MoMA. The same year, Kim was nominated for a Spirit Award for producing. She has been the driving force behind more than a dozen award-winning and theatrically released independent films. Frustrated with the lack of revenue reporting and accountability, she co-founded SingularDTV/Breaker Studios, a blockchain “Entech” studio, building rights (tracking), revenue and royalty payment software operated by blockchain technology.
As the head of Breaker Studios, she oversaw the production and distribution of feature films from around the world. Breaker's productions include a slate of critically acclaimed films, including Alex Winter's feature documentary TRUST MACHINE: THE STORY OF BLOCKCHAIN, STRIDING INTO THE WIND (YE MA FEN ZONG) official selection for Cannes 2020, the festival darling LA FORTALEZA that premiered in competition at Rotterdam 2020, and the audience favorite ANTARCTICA, directed by Keith Bearden (Meet Monica Velour). Award winning DOWN WITH THE KING premiered at Cannes 2021 and received NYT Critic Pick and is available on VOD. Kim is a PGA member, a board member of New York Women in Film & Television, an Artist Academy member of Film at Lincoln Center and an alumnus of Simmons University, serving on the Dean's Council of the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Arts and Humanities, as well as an active board member of ACE Programs for the Homeless.
Patrick Nichols
Producer
Patrick Nichols is a film producer and editor living in New York City where he recently graduated with an MFA in Creative Producing from Columbia University.
Born and raised in North Carolina, he has worked all over the world as a videographer for musical acts John Mayer and Walk The Moon. As an Editor and Assistant Editor, Patrick has crafted videos for clients such as Apple Music, Major League Soccer, and PBS North Carolina.
In addition to this work, he’s produced several short films, including Inoculation, which received a Professional Development grant from the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County and premiered at the 2020 RiverRun International Film Festival before screening at virtual film festivals in the U.S. and internationally.
As an MFA student, Patrick was accepted into the 2021 Sloan Production Mentorship Program, is a recipient of The 2021 Michael Hausman/Filmhaus Foundation Award, and was a finalist for the 2022 Debra Hill Fellowship. He is currently overseeing post-production on several short films he produced, including: Palm Sunday, which received grant funding from Columbia University, the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Mentorship and Development Prize, and the YoungArts Foundation; Choke Hold, which received and Indian Paintbrush grant; Wednesday Night, Fremantle which received funding from the Robert Gore Rifkind Queer Production grant; and Good Dog, which received a Sarah Jones Film Student Safety Grant.
Henry Roosevelt
Cinematographer
Henry is an award winning filmmaker. His past work has played Tribeca, SXSW, and won Santa Barbara Film Festival and USA Film Festival. His first documentary feature film, Tough Guys, was purchased and distributed by Showtime. He is currently wrapping a feature documentary for Netflix. He has shot and produced multiple projects/commercials for HBO, ESPN, Estée Lauder, and Toyota. He’s “beyond excited to help Chloe’s vision in creating a short with poignancy and supporting her thoughtful and unflinching perspective. Chloe has something to say - it permeates in the script and her description of her vision.”