Dead in Love
Pleasanton, California | Film Feature
LGBTQ, Romantic Comedy
Dead in Love is a paranormal romantic comedy about a young woman who dies unexpectedly. Her spirit teams up with her parents to help her find love for her afterlife. The film explores themes of grief and love with magical realism.
Dead in Love
Pleasanton, California | Film Feature
LGBTQ, Romantic Comedy
4 Campaigns | California, United States
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Dead in Love is a paranormal romantic comedy about a young woman who dies unexpectedly. Her spirit teams up with her parents to help her find love for her afterlife. The film explores themes of grief and love with magical realism.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Dead in Love is a Paranormal Romantic Comedy Feature Film.
Logline
A bisexual ghost becomes enamored with an attractive couple living in her former home. She proceeds to try and poltergeist her way into their hearts.
Inspiration for the film
Not knowing if that last kiss really was my last or when I would be able to hug or hold my friends and family again, I channeled all my feelings of loneliness and my frustration around being isolated during the pandemic into the script for Dead in Love. Written during lockdown, Dead in Love is a comedic exploration of modern queer love.
Production for Dead in Love
Dead in Love had a twelve day shoot schedule spread over three months in the autumn of 2021 in Livermore, CA. Family and friends donated food and locations to the production and several creative professionals worked for favors and loaned equipment.
Post Production and Distribution Plans
You contribution will allow us to add the polish needed to the final film to submit it to film festivals and sales agents. Dark Rainbow went to AFM (The American Film Market) in November 2022 and spoke with several distributors and sales agents about the film. We had a good amount of interest from several distributors that are interested in working with us once the film is finished. Several festivals have reached out directly and given us film waivers to see the final film as well.
With your contribution we are confident that Dead in Love will secure World Wide Distribution.
We are partnering with From the Heart Productions as a Fiscal Sponsor. This partnership means that your contributions are tax deductible if you are in the US.
Synopsis
Sofia, a shy struggling writer dies suddenly from a brain aneurysm one night while on the phone with her devout mother. Relatively inexperienced in terms of love in her short life, Sofia begrudgingly agrees to cooperate with her overbearing mother and the spirit of her deceased father, who want to help her find a partner or partners to love in her afterlife. Sofia’s mother finds various candidates for her corporeally-challenged daughter by renting out Sophia's former home. After a few duds move in and out, Sofia finds herself drawn to Maria and Marcos’ lust for life and one another. Learning she can communicate with Maria, who is also bisexual, Sophia explores her new state of being and sexual identity with Maria and Marcos after obtaining their consent. With a budding unicorn relationship, Sophia learns the good and bad about polyamory with their help.
Casting Authentic Representation
It was really important to me that the leads be queer latin performers. I reached out to the Theatre Collective Latinx Mafia in Oakland and with the help of Casting Director Letitia Duarte I was introduced to Linda Maria Girón and Livia Demarchi.
Latinx Mafia
Latinx Mafia is a collective of diverse Latinx/e identified artists. The group was born out of a need to address the collective experiences with racist, problematic and misunderstood casting and storytelling practices of Latinx/e stories in a white-dominated media space. They come together in community to advocate for their radically accurate representation, to provide support and resources for Latinx-identified artists and to uplift their talent.
Our Lead Cast is played by Linda Maria Girón, Livia Gomes Demarchi, Arturo Rangel
Our Co-Stars are Romeo Abasolo and Letitia Duarte
Our Guest Stars are Janelle Aguirre and Natalia Delgado
Dead in Love explores themes around family and grief in a humorous way. Our main character Sofia is isolating herself from her controlling mother and married sister because she thinks they will judge her for not being more established in her career and for not being in a serious relationship. Sofia is still finding her voice as a writer and as a woman. As she prepares for a romantic evening she suffers a brain aneurysm and dies suddenly wearing her little black dress dolled up in full hair and makeup.
In her new spectral state Sofia's spirit can't leave her house, she has unfinished business. Does she finally take the time to write her novel and stop making excuses for not being in a relationship and heal her existential self that tells her she's not deserving of love with a man or a woman or both?
One of my favorite paranormal films is Beetlejuice
It's funny and bizzare and at it's heart Beetlejuice is about a broken family that learns how to be a family again.If you were a goth kid growing up in the suburbs like me then you related hard to Lydia Deetz.
Sexy ghost film you've never seen.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is about a woman whose husband dies suddenly and comes back as a ghost and lives with her and her new husband. She gets the best of both worlds, the passion from her first love and the stability of her new partner.
Our film is about being queer... and learning how to follow your heart when it comes to work and love. Coming out is a continuous process. You constantly come out over and over again in your personal and professional life and for some even in death.
I’m so proud of our artistic team for coming together for this project.
Follow our Seed & Spark page - This expands our reach on the platform and helps us unlock different incentives along the way.
Contribute & Pledge - Your contribution is incredibly useful. If you're unable to contribute consider sharing with a friend who may be able to.
Please feel free to Copy & Paste the below quote to share on your social media pages!
Help @darkrainbowfilms by supporting their hilarious polyamourous paranormal Rom-Com! It’s a story that shows it's never too late to come out or fall in love. Join them on www.seedandspark.com/fund/dead-in-love
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Sound Recording Sessions
Costs $4,800
We need to do several ADR sessions for key scenes and record new voice over to add to the story.
Extra Shoot Days
Costs $4,000
We need to do some exterior drone shots and shoot a new ending.
Musical Score
Costs $2,000
We would like to make an original score for the film.
Animated Title Sequence
Costs $1,200
An animated Title sequence will help set the tone for the movie.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Dark Rainbow Films is a collection of talented film proffessionals. We have worked together on several projects and push our creative limits with each new project.
Katie Grubbs
After moving to the Bay Area to study for an MFA in Animation and VFX, She started working as a freelance filmmaker in 2017. Off set she is an editor, producer, compositor and VFX artist; on set srt a Script Supervisor, Assisstant Camera, Grip, B camera operator, and sometimes Crafty or Catering. She prefers editing narrative stories and find it incredibly fulfilling to hear an audience enjoy her projects whether in a festival or a screening.
Simon Santos
Assistant Editor
Simon Santos is a Filipino-American actor and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently trains at the Meisner Technique Studio in San Francisco, studying with the protegé of Sanford Meisner, Jim Jarrett.
In the summer of 2022, Simon had the honor of being cast in the Stranger Things: Experience for its San Francisco run.
Ryan Casteneda
Cinemtographer
Bay Area-based cinematographer, passionate about crafting images that tell stories and engage audiences.
Nicole de Meneses
Writer, Director, Producer
Nicole De Meneses is a freelance Writer, Director, Producer working in the Bay Area. I make independent regional genre films that showcase and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
She has a background in Media Arts and Animation from the Art institute of San Francisco and is the founder of Dark Rainbow Films as well as the Blood and Popcorn Film Festival. Nicole has created diverse commercial and promotional projects for various startups and film companies. Her short film Nightcap will have its European premiere at The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival this October, and you can see her new short film Blood Bond on PJs and Pixels and watch season one of the award winning web series Dating in the Zombie Apocalypse on Lesflicks.
https://www.darkrainbowfilms.com
Rachel 'Raquel' Saldivar
Location Sound Mixer
Leticia Duarte
Casting Director
Bessie Zolno
Intimacy Cordinator
Carla Pantoja
On Set Intimacy Cordinator
Camille Henson
Production Designer
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Dead in Love is a Paranormal Romantic Comedy Feature Film.
Logline
A bisexual ghost becomes enamored with an attractive couple living in her former home. She proceeds to try and poltergeist her way into their hearts.
Inspiration for the film
Not knowing if that last kiss really was my last or when I would be able to hug or hold my friends and family again, I channeled all my feelings of loneliness and my frustration around being isolated during the pandemic into the script for Dead in Love. Written during lockdown, Dead in Love is a comedic exploration of modern queer love.
Production for Dead in Love
Dead in Love had a twelve day shoot schedule spread over three months in the autumn of 2021 in Livermore, CA. Family and friends donated food and locations to the production and several creative professionals worked for favors and loaned equipment.
Post Production and Distribution Plans
You contribution will allow us to add the polish needed to the final film to submit it to film festivals and sales agents. Dark Rainbow went to AFM (The American Film Market) in November 2022 and spoke with several distributors and sales agents about the film. We had a good amount of interest from several distributors that are interested in working with us once the film is finished. Several festivals have reached out directly and given us film waivers to see the final film as well.
With your contribution we are confident that Dead in Love will secure World Wide Distribution.
We are partnering with From the Heart Productions as a Fiscal Sponsor. This partnership means that your contributions are tax deductible if you are in the US.
Synopsis
Sofia, a shy struggling writer dies suddenly from a brain aneurysm one night while on the phone with her devout mother. Relatively inexperienced in terms of love in her short life, Sofia begrudgingly agrees to cooperate with her overbearing mother and the spirit of her deceased father, who want to help her find a partner or partners to love in her afterlife. Sofia’s mother finds various candidates for her corporeally-challenged daughter by renting out Sophia's former home. After a few duds move in and out, Sofia finds herself drawn to Maria and Marcos’ lust for life and one another. Learning she can communicate with Maria, who is also bisexual, Sophia explores her new state of being and sexual identity with Maria and Marcos after obtaining their consent. With a budding unicorn relationship, Sophia learns the good and bad about polyamory with their help.
Casting Authentic Representation
It was really important to me that the leads be queer latin performers. I reached out to the Theatre Collective Latinx Mafia in Oakland and with the help of Casting Director Letitia Duarte I was introduced to Linda Maria Girón and Livia Demarchi.
Latinx Mafia
Latinx Mafia is a collective of diverse Latinx/e identified artists. The group was born out of a need to address the collective experiences with racist, problematic and misunderstood casting and storytelling practices of Latinx/e stories in a white-dominated media space. They come together in community to advocate for their radically accurate representation, to provide support and resources for Latinx-identified artists and to uplift their talent.
Our Lead Cast is played by Linda Maria Girón, Livia Gomes Demarchi, Arturo Rangel
Our Co-Stars are Romeo Abasolo and Letitia Duarte
Our Guest Stars are Janelle Aguirre and Natalia Delgado
Dead in Love explores themes around family and grief in a humorous way. Our main character Sofia is isolating herself from her controlling mother and married sister because she thinks they will judge her for not being more established in her career and for not being in a serious relationship. Sofia is still finding her voice as a writer and as a woman. As she prepares for a romantic evening she suffers a brain aneurysm and dies suddenly wearing her little black dress dolled up in full hair and makeup.
In her new spectral state Sofia's spirit can't leave her house, she has unfinished business. Does she finally take the time to write her novel and stop making excuses for not being in a relationship and heal her existential self that tells her she's not deserving of love with a man or a woman or both?
One of my favorite paranormal films is Beetlejuice
It's funny and bizzare and at it's heart Beetlejuice is about a broken family that learns how to be a family again.If you were a goth kid growing up in the suburbs like me then you related hard to Lydia Deetz.
Sexy ghost film you've never seen.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is about a woman whose husband dies suddenly and comes back as a ghost and lives with her and her new husband. She gets the best of both worlds, the passion from her first love and the stability of her new partner.
Our film is about being queer... and learning how to follow your heart when it comes to work and love. Coming out is a continuous process. You constantly come out over and over again in your personal and professional life and for some even in death.
I’m so proud of our artistic team for coming together for this project.
Follow our Seed & Spark page - This expands our reach on the platform and helps us unlock different incentives along the way.
Contribute & Pledge - Your contribution is incredibly useful. If you're unable to contribute consider sharing with a friend who may be able to.
Please feel free to Copy & Paste the below quote to share on your social media pages!
Help @darkrainbowfilms by supporting their hilarious polyamourous paranormal Rom-Com! It’s a story that shows it's never too late to come out or fall in love. Join them on www.seedandspark.com/fund/dead-in-love
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Sound Recording Sessions
Costs $4,800
We need to do several ADR sessions for key scenes and record new voice over to add to the story.
Extra Shoot Days
Costs $4,000
We need to do some exterior drone shots and shoot a new ending.
Musical Score
Costs $2,000
We would like to make an original score for the film.
Animated Title Sequence
Costs $1,200
An animated Title sequence will help set the tone for the movie.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Dark Rainbow Films is a collection of talented film proffessionals. We have worked together on several projects and push our creative limits with each new project.
Katie Grubbs
After moving to the Bay Area to study for an MFA in Animation and VFX, She started working as a freelance filmmaker in 2017. Off set she is an editor, producer, compositor and VFX artist; on set srt a Script Supervisor, Assisstant Camera, Grip, B camera operator, and sometimes Crafty or Catering. She prefers editing narrative stories and find it incredibly fulfilling to hear an audience enjoy her projects whether in a festival or a screening.
Simon Santos
Assistant Editor
Simon Santos is a Filipino-American actor and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently trains at the Meisner Technique Studio in San Francisco, studying with the protegé of Sanford Meisner, Jim Jarrett.
In the summer of 2022, Simon had the honor of being cast in the Stranger Things: Experience for its San Francisco run.
Ryan Casteneda
Cinemtographer
Bay Area-based cinematographer, passionate about crafting images that tell stories and engage audiences.
Nicole de Meneses
Writer, Director, Producer
Nicole De Meneses is a freelance Writer, Director, Producer working in the Bay Area. I make independent regional genre films that showcase and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
She has a background in Media Arts and Animation from the Art institute of San Francisco and is the founder of Dark Rainbow Films as well as the Blood and Popcorn Film Festival. Nicole has created diverse commercial and promotional projects for various startups and film companies. Her short film Nightcap will have its European premiere at The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival this October, and you can see her new short film Blood Bond on PJs and Pixels and watch season one of the award winning web series Dating in the Zombie Apocalypse on Lesflicks.
https://www.darkrainbowfilms.com
Rachel 'Raquel' Saldivar
Location Sound Mixer
Leticia Duarte
Casting Director
Bessie Zolno
Intimacy Cordinator
Carla Pantoja
On Set Intimacy Cordinator
Camille Henson
Production Designer