BRIDES TO BE
by Kris & Lindy Boustedt

Kris & Lindy Boustedt
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BRIDES TO BE
by Kris & Lindy Boustedt
Kris & Lindy Boustedt
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On the eve of their wedding Jenna & Robin, with best-friend Nate, travel to a secluded fairy tale venue. When they're terrorized by unexplained, deeply unsettling phenomena, Jenna must reject doubt and have faith in love to overpower the forces against them. Can she save the woman of her dreams?
On the eve of their wedding Jenna & Robin, with best-friend Nate, travel to a secluded fairy tale venue. When they're terrorized by unexplained, deeply unsettling phenomena, Jenna must reject doubt and have faith in love to overpower the forces against them. Can she save the woman of her dreams?
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About The Project
We tell fascinating, entertaining stories about compelling women. Brides To Be is no exception. With the successes of our short films Practical Things and Together Forever (dozens of festival screenings, awards and over 1.5M views on YouTube as of this writing), we knew we wanted to return to positive-representation Queer 2.0 storytelling – stories about great characters who are also gay.
First and foremost, Brides to Be is a character study of Jenna as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. On the eve of her nuptials, something is tearing at her and she’s unable to write her vows. She loves Robin, she wants to marry her, but she’s also unsure of her own identity and place in the world – she’s worried about losing her sense of self when the ampersand becomes permanent in Robin & Jenna.
It’s also a supernatural drama, a classic haunted house film – to be shot in an actual haunted mansion. In the style of films like Ti West’s The Innkeepers or Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, Brides to Be is about the creeping dread of our own insecurities, doubts and anxieties writ large through paranormal – and terrifying – activity. But we want to buck a trend of the genre by having the main characters be women with their own stories, strengths and vulnerabilities (instead of being props or screams) and featuring non-exploited, non-marginalized, non-fetishized lesbian characters.
And it’s an allegory for the way hatred and fear infect our lives, zeroing in on homophobia and the continued resistance to marriage equality. Our favorite horror films are those that offer social commentary, that make us question the status quo of existence. After all, good horror provides a “satisfying catharsis for the constraints, expectations and falsified desires that society imposes on its members (or that its members happily take upon themselves). Horror done right has an underlying social metaphor” (Ryan Levin, The Man in the Movie Hat).
The engine of it all is simple: the relationships between Jenna and Robin and Jenna and Nate, the friend she’s had since childhood. Relationships that allow the audience to explore fundamental questions of the human condition: who are we, what do we want, are we alone?
But above all, it’s a story about the power of love.
Incentives
$5
Join #TeamBrides! This includes an invite for two to our exclusive cast/crew screening or a personalized link to a special pre-release edition of the film online.$15
Email Love Gram! Wanna brigthen someone's day? We'll send an email love gram on your behalf! Complete with your message, a love quote and artwork. Sure to bring smiles and warm fuzzy feelings.
$25
Postcard Love Gram! Remember the days when you got a postcard in the mail and how happy you were to receive it? Now you can give those feelings to someone you love. We'll put your message on the back of a postcard featuring a beautiful painting and you'll be entered into a drawing to win the actual painting!
$50
Karaoke Serenade - yes, you read that right. You pick the song, we sing it/dedicate it to your special someone at Karaoke night, videotape the event, and send it on your behalf!
$75
Google Hangout Dinner w/the VFX/Sound/Score team and directors! Wanna peek inside what makes a horror film intense and scary? Watch the film and then join us for dinner where we'll answer your questions and talk about our process for creating the visual effects, sound design, and score elements.
$100
Google Hangout Dinner w/the cast and directors! We'll all make dinner, we'll tell some jokes, you'll get to ask us anything you want, and we'll all become best friends through the power of technology.
$250
We'll help you host your own screening of BRIDES TO BE! We all find a date and you invite your friends! We'll be there to do a Q&A after - either in person (if it's close enough), or by Google Hangout. Be the talk of your town!
$1,000
Have you always wanted to be a movie producer? At this level, we'll list you as Associate Producer in our credits and on IMDb. You're helping make this film happen in a big way and you deserve the credit of doing so!
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$5
Join #TeamBrides! This includes an invite for two to our exclusive cast/crew screening or a personalized link to a special pre-release edition of the film online.$15
Email Love Gram! Wanna brigthen someone's day? We'll send an email love gram on your behalf! Complete with your message, a love quote and artwork. Sure to bring smiles and warm fuzzy feelings.
$25
Postcard Love Gram! Remember the days when you got a postcard in the mail and how happy you were to receive it? Now you can give those feelings to someone you love. We'll put your message on the back of a postcard featuring a beautiful painting and you'll be entered into a drawing to win the actual painting!
$50
Karaoke Serenade - yes, you read that right. You pick the song, we sing it/dedicate it to your special someone at Karaoke night, videotape the event, and send it on your behalf!
$75
Google Hangout Dinner w/the VFX/Sound/Score team and directors! Wanna peek inside what makes a horror film intense and scary? Watch the film and then join us for dinner where we'll answer your questions and talk about our process for creating the visual effects, sound design, and score elements.
$100
Google Hangout Dinner w/the cast and directors! We'll all make dinner, we'll tell some jokes, you'll get to ask us anything you want, and we'll all become best friends through the power of technology.
$250
We'll help you host your own screening of BRIDES TO BE! We all find a date and you invite your friends! We'll be there to do a Q&A after - either in person (if it's close enough), or by Google Hangout. Be the talk of your town!
$1,000
Have you always wanted to be a movie producer? At this level, we'll list you as Associate Producer in our credits and on IMDb. You're helping make this film happen in a big way and you deserve the credit of doing so!
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About This Team
We (Kris & Lindy Boustedt) have been making films together since we met 13 years ago and this is our third feature film as a team. Our goals are simple. Create quality, exportable, audience-centric experiences with great characters that inspire. We strive to create films that expose constructive truths, truths hidden just beneath the surface of entertainment – engrossing, emotional and engaging experiences.
We live and dream cinema. If we could, we'd eat, drink and breathe it. We have devoted our lives to this art form, its study and creation, and we're not stopping anytime soon. Since filmmaking is our life, we've spent the past 13 years building a family to craft cinema with. Our family has been with us on many of our films and it's because of them and their immense talent that we've been successful.
The first part of our family is the talent you see on the screen - our actors.
- Carollani Sandberg - Jenna
- Angela DiMarco - Robin
- Jesse Lee Keeter - Nate
- Linas Phillips - Bob
The second part of our family is the talent behind the camera - our crew.
- Jonathan Houser - Director of Photography
- Marisa Brown - Producer/UPM
- Kit Boyer - 1st AC
- Nicholas Davis - Gaffer
- Chris Tomkins - Grip/DIT/Colorist
- Jon Goff - Sound Recordist/Sound Designer
- Eric Goetz - Boom Operator/Composer
- Kristen Bonnalie-Hooberman - Production Design/Wardrobe
- Sisters, Jonelle Cornwell & Cherelle Ashby - Hair/Makeup/SFX
- Amy Goetz - Catering
- Amy Enser - Editor
The third and most important part of our team is YOU. We wouldn't be here without our audience of supporters. We craft these stories for you and we want to team with you to make this film one you can be proud of.
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