Breasts
New Orleans, Louisiana | Film Short
Drama
Faryl's days revolve around a rigid routine of breastfeeding and pumping. When a male co-worker nags her about her breaks, a frustrated Faryl explains that she must “pump her breasts”. He files a sexual harassment complaint against her, which hampers her efforts and forces her to wean prematurely.
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Faryl's days revolve around a rigid routine of breastfeeding and pumping. When a male co-worker nags her about her breaks, a frustrated Faryl explains that she must “pump her breasts”. He files a sexual harassment complaint against her, which hampers her efforts and forces her to wean prematurely.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
BREASTS is a true story, based on my experience when I went back to work with a 12 week old baby. I hope I will be able to help you understand how overwhelming and challenging breastfeeding was as a single, working mother. The demands on the body that functions on 3 or 4 hours of sleep, combined with the meticulous attention one must give our aching, swelling breasts, and keeping track of all the feedings, then staying on task and getting things done at work is a super human feat. And women do it everyday. It is a subject that has never really been explored in film.
This is a story about a competent single mother whose ability to be a good parent (as outlined by her doctor) is handicapped by society – in this case, company policy. She’s a mother powerless against a system in which the people of authority leverage a blind obedience to rules, with a complete disregard to common sense or humanity in the interest of self-preservation. It takes a woman who is in no way a victim and makes her one.
Until one has a child, the notion of breastfeeding and pumping is a foreign concept. Though many people support a mother’s right to breastfeed, most have no idea how challenging the task is and the insurmountable obstacles women face in the workplace.
It wasn’t until 2010, with the ACA, that breastfeeding women got protection in the workplace; but these women – often pumping women - are still bullied at work and often forced to quit through attrition or fired for demanding their rights. And let's face it - right now we are at risk of losing these long overdue rights.
This film explores themes of the inherent isolation that a new mother experiences, compounded by the marginalization of mothers in the workplace and how, unfortunately, they are often pitted against other “career women”. More importantly, it’s a real account of how resilient a woman can be when the will to take care of her child overpowers any obstacle in front of her.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Talent
Costs $1,670
This is a SAG production with name talent.
Art Direction
Costs $1,000
The film is set in the 1990's and will require purchases to achieve the proper look.
Grip Package/Lighting
Costs $2,500
When creating frames, scenes, and shots it is the light that tells us the mood of a scene. A good film depends on how one uses light.
G-T Technology
Costs $300
We need to backup our footage to keep it safe.
Travel for Talent
Costs $1,100
We are flying in talent.
Insurance
Costs $1,200
Safety in film is important for both actors and equipment.
Makeup and Wardrobe
Costs $1,500
We need to create prosthetic breasts made from silicone and buy period clothing from the 90's.
Craft Services
Costs $1,100
It is a four day shoot. We have to keep our cast and crew fed and hydrated.
Transportation
Costs $840
This will provide a camera truck and production van to haul all of our donated equipment properly and safely.
Crew
Costs $4,775
We have recruited a professional team that deserves to be paid.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Eva Contis - Writer/Director/Co-Producer
Eva has a ten year career in film production as an editor and post production supervisor in which she honed her skills in story and pace. Prior to becoming an editor, she worked in development, casting and talent management. She has experience in all levels of production including producing, pre-production, directing, field producing and script writing for feature films, shorts, television shows and documentaries.
The animated short she edited THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE won an Academy Award in 2012 and the short she wrote and directed, THE STAND just hit the festival circuit, garnering two wins at its first appearance at The Louisiana Film Prize: The top 5 and a Founder's Circle Grant of $3000. The film was also featured in the March 2017 of American Cinematographer Magazine. This also led to a distribution deal through Shorts HD. Her second short is a playful look at a woman’s insecurity as she gets dressed to go out.
Kerry Cahill - Producer
Kerry Cahill has worked in film for over 10 years. She currently recurs as Dianne on The Walking Dead and has worked in over thirty films starring alongside Matthew McConaughey, Jason Mitchell, Reese Witherspoon, and Uzo Aduba. She has received critical acclaim in both theater and film, most recently being nominated for the Big Easy Best Actress award for the production Grounded with Southern Repertory Theater.
She has started her own production company, Pocket Door Productions, as a way to tell more stories and examine points of view that are often missed in popular film and television programming. Most recently producing The Perfect Dress, currently in post production, she is also in development on a series called Secrets of Storyville which will examine the lost historical figures of New Orleans’ Red Light District. In our current world filled with constant spin and media noise, these stories tap into an audience that seeks to know more and dig deeper. Like its name sake, the pocket door, her productions seek to remind us of what hides behind the walls we live in.
Executive Producer: Diana Jackson
Diana Jackson has worked in feature films and television for over ten years. During that time, she traveled the globe working in Ireland, China, Australia, Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans and Hawaii. Some of those projects include THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, THE TUDORS, AUGUST RUSH, HAWAII FIVE-0 and more. Through her production company, Talking Dog Productions, she has produced several short films, including the award-winning film, PASS THE SALT, PLEASE starring Fionnula Flanagan and Seymour Casell. Most recently she produced THESE WILD THINGS, which is currently screening at festivals around the world. THESE WILD THINGS won Best Louisiana Short at the New Orleans Film Festival.
Executive Producer: Victoria Greene
Victoria is an award winning filmmaker and founder of Greene Bayou Films. Her first feature film FORGOTTEN BAYOU premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2016 and won Best Feature Documentary at Crossroads Film Festival 2017, and the Award of Merit, Special Mention for the Accolade Global Competition 2017. Additionally her short film MONSTER IN THE BAYOU won best doc during WIFTI Short Film Showcase in 2016 and has screened all over the world. Victoria had a successful marketing/sales career before forming her production company in 2013 and continues producing both narratives and documentaries. While working with LPB (Louisiana Public Broadcasting) for over twenty years as an on-air host and anchor during pledge drives, Victoria interviewed many filmmakers and fell in love with storytelling through film. A graduate of Louisiana State University, Victoria is a member of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) and New Orleans Video & Access Center (NOVAC) and lives in New Orleans with her two min-pins, Reggie and Lena. Victoria is an avid LSU and Saints fan.
Associate Producer: Allsion Franz
Allison Franz is a recent Loyola New Orleans graduate, a native to New Orleans, and a local artist. She is an up and coming scenic artist and producer. As an activist, she is very focused on the issues that directly effect her community and her peers. She has worked with the Vagina Monologues, the Lazarus Project and is proud to be able to work under and with this talented and established team of women!
Associate Producer: Nicole Ciccarelli
Nicole has worked in varying facets of the entertainment industry for 4 years. Originally from the Detroit area she has lived in over 5 major cities across the country and around the world. She is currently in New Orleans for the time being and lovin’ it thoroughly. She is a writer, blogger, creator, producer, world-traveler and hands-on activist, with passionate endeavors aiming for worldwide changes from a humanitarian and egalitarian perspective. She is currently working with two short films, including Breasts, along with a focus on writing a TV series and a memoir that’s in the making.
Director of Photography: Natalie Kingston
Hair/Makeup/Special Effects: Tori Bernard
Since 2008, Victoria (Tori) Bernard has been a full time, licensed hairdresser/makeup artist/special fx artist. Graduated from Aveda Institute of New Orleans and a self taught special fx artist. You have seen her work during NOLA Fashion Week and with the New Orleans Saintsations. She is an award winning designer in New Orleans theater most recently designing "Tarzan" at Jefferson Performing Arts Center, you will also see her work in Louisiana and Georgia at premier haunted houses. She has worked in indie film, including Laundry Day and The Perfect Dress, through-out New Orleans and currently resides in Metairie, Louisiana. Tori is currently growing her special effects company Drop Dead Fx LLC.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
BREASTS is a true story, based on my experience when I went back to work with a 12 week old baby. I hope I will be able to help you understand how overwhelming and challenging breastfeeding was as a single, working mother. The demands on the body that functions on 3 or 4 hours of sleep, combined with the meticulous attention one must give our aching, swelling breasts, and keeping track of all the feedings, then staying on task and getting things done at work is a super human feat. And women do it everyday. It is a subject that has never really been explored in film.
This is a story about a competent single mother whose ability to be a good parent (as outlined by her doctor) is handicapped by society – in this case, company policy. She’s a mother powerless against a system in which the people of authority leverage a blind obedience to rules, with a complete disregard to common sense or humanity in the interest of self-preservation. It takes a woman who is in no way a victim and makes her one.
Until one has a child, the notion of breastfeeding and pumping is a foreign concept. Though many people support a mother’s right to breastfeed, most have no idea how challenging the task is and the insurmountable obstacles women face in the workplace.
It wasn’t until 2010, with the ACA, that breastfeeding women got protection in the workplace; but these women – often pumping women - are still bullied at work and often forced to quit through attrition or fired for demanding their rights. And let's face it - right now we are at risk of losing these long overdue rights.
This film explores themes of the inherent isolation that a new mother experiences, compounded by the marginalization of mothers in the workplace and how, unfortunately, they are often pitted against other “career women”. More importantly, it’s a real account of how resilient a woman can be when the will to take care of her child overpowers any obstacle in front of her.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Talent
Costs $1,670
This is a SAG production with name talent.
Art Direction
Costs $1,000
The film is set in the 1990's and will require purchases to achieve the proper look.
Grip Package/Lighting
Costs $2,500
When creating frames, scenes, and shots it is the light that tells us the mood of a scene. A good film depends on how one uses light.
G-T Technology
Costs $300
We need to backup our footage to keep it safe.
Travel for Talent
Costs $1,100
We are flying in talent.
Insurance
Costs $1,200
Safety in film is important for both actors and equipment.
Makeup and Wardrobe
Costs $1,500
We need to create prosthetic breasts made from silicone and buy period clothing from the 90's.
Craft Services
Costs $1,100
It is a four day shoot. We have to keep our cast and crew fed and hydrated.
Transportation
Costs $840
This will provide a camera truck and production van to haul all of our donated equipment properly and safely.
Crew
Costs $4,775
We have recruited a professional team that deserves to be paid.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Eva Contis - Writer/Director/Co-Producer
Eva has a ten year career in film production as an editor and post production supervisor in which she honed her skills in story and pace. Prior to becoming an editor, she worked in development, casting and talent management. She has experience in all levels of production including producing, pre-production, directing, field producing and script writing for feature films, shorts, television shows and documentaries.
The animated short she edited THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE won an Academy Award in 2012 and the short she wrote and directed, THE STAND just hit the festival circuit, garnering two wins at its first appearance at The Louisiana Film Prize: The top 5 and a Founder's Circle Grant of $3000. The film was also featured in the March 2017 of American Cinematographer Magazine. This also led to a distribution deal through Shorts HD. Her second short is a playful look at a woman’s insecurity as she gets dressed to go out.
Kerry Cahill - Producer
Kerry Cahill has worked in film for over 10 years. She currently recurs as Dianne on The Walking Dead and has worked in over thirty films starring alongside Matthew McConaughey, Jason Mitchell, Reese Witherspoon, and Uzo Aduba. She has received critical acclaim in both theater and film, most recently being nominated for the Big Easy Best Actress award for the production Grounded with Southern Repertory Theater.
She has started her own production company, Pocket Door Productions, as a way to tell more stories and examine points of view that are often missed in popular film and television programming. Most recently producing The Perfect Dress, currently in post production, she is also in development on a series called Secrets of Storyville which will examine the lost historical figures of New Orleans’ Red Light District. In our current world filled with constant spin and media noise, these stories tap into an audience that seeks to know more and dig deeper. Like its name sake, the pocket door, her productions seek to remind us of what hides behind the walls we live in.
Executive Producer: Diana Jackson
Diana Jackson has worked in feature films and television for over ten years. During that time, she traveled the globe working in Ireland, China, Australia, Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans and Hawaii. Some of those projects include THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, THE TUDORS, AUGUST RUSH, HAWAII FIVE-0 and more. Through her production company, Talking Dog Productions, she has produced several short films, including the award-winning film, PASS THE SALT, PLEASE starring Fionnula Flanagan and Seymour Casell. Most recently she produced THESE WILD THINGS, which is currently screening at festivals around the world. THESE WILD THINGS won Best Louisiana Short at the New Orleans Film Festival.
Executive Producer: Victoria Greene
Victoria is an award winning filmmaker and founder of Greene Bayou Films. Her first feature film FORGOTTEN BAYOU premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2016 and won Best Feature Documentary at Crossroads Film Festival 2017, and the Award of Merit, Special Mention for the Accolade Global Competition 2017. Additionally her short film MONSTER IN THE BAYOU won best doc during WIFTI Short Film Showcase in 2016 and has screened all over the world. Victoria had a successful marketing/sales career before forming her production company in 2013 and continues producing both narratives and documentaries. While working with LPB (Louisiana Public Broadcasting) for over twenty years as an on-air host and anchor during pledge drives, Victoria interviewed many filmmakers and fell in love with storytelling through film. A graduate of Louisiana State University, Victoria is a member of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) and New Orleans Video & Access Center (NOVAC) and lives in New Orleans with her two min-pins, Reggie and Lena. Victoria is an avid LSU and Saints fan.
Associate Producer: Allsion Franz
Allison Franz is a recent Loyola New Orleans graduate, a native to New Orleans, and a local artist. She is an up and coming scenic artist and producer. As an activist, she is very focused on the issues that directly effect her community and her peers. She has worked with the Vagina Monologues, the Lazarus Project and is proud to be able to work under and with this talented and established team of women!
Associate Producer: Nicole Ciccarelli
Nicole has worked in varying facets of the entertainment industry for 4 years. Originally from the Detroit area she has lived in over 5 major cities across the country and around the world. She is currently in New Orleans for the time being and lovin’ it thoroughly. She is a writer, blogger, creator, producer, world-traveler and hands-on activist, with passionate endeavors aiming for worldwide changes from a humanitarian and egalitarian perspective. She is currently working with two short films, including Breasts, along with a focus on writing a TV series and a memoir that’s in the making.
Director of Photography: Natalie Kingston
Hair/Makeup/Special Effects: Tori Bernard
Since 2008, Victoria (Tori) Bernard has been a full time, licensed hairdresser/makeup artist/special fx artist. Graduated from Aveda Institute of New Orleans and a self taught special fx artist. You have seen her work during NOLA Fashion Week and with the New Orleans Saintsations. She is an award winning designer in New Orleans theater most recently designing "Tarzan" at Jefferson Performing Arts Center, you will also see her work in Louisiana and Georgia at premier haunted houses. She has worked in indie film, including Laundry Day and The Perfect Dress, through-out New Orleans and currently resides in Metairie, Louisiana. Tori is currently growing her special effects company Drop Dead Fx LLC.