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A tale of the intersections of pandemic and race, Fevered Dreams is the quintessential story of this time.
A tale of the intersections of pandemic and race, Fevered Dreams is the quintessential story of this time.
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Mission Statement
Fevered Dreams imagines futures from a Black woman’s perspective and those futures are informed by knowledges of Black pasts. Conceived as part of an anthology, it will offer much needed stories of strength, resistance, resilience, humor, joy, and hope for this moment and times to come.About The Project
The Story
Monday is a novice nurse hired on at a short-staffed rehabilitation center in the middle of a pandemic. Across the world, a mysterious plague is striking down people in their prime, and the burden of care has grown so that now even nursing students who haven't graduated are highly sought after. But as Monday learns more about the origins of the ailment and its long-lasting effects, she must decide whether the work is worth the costs.
Director's Statement
Weirdly, Fevered Dreams began life as a short story almost four years ago. At the beginning of 2020, before even the whispers of Covid-19, I wrote the screenplay for the film with the intent on shooting this year. Little did I know that as I geared up for filming, we would find ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic.
Over the past few months, I have watched some of the speculative elements of the film become reality. From the pressures essential workers feel to keep the world turning to the way the pandemic has underscored the intersections of race and illness, the strange way that life is now imitating art has made this film seem even more necessary.
Fevered Dreams tackles all of this from a Black woman's perspective, with a twist that's sure to generate conversation. The film will feature multiple strong lead roles for Black actors too. I am excited to share this story in visual form.
Project Status:
The script is complete, and several members of the crew are already attached. We are hoping to raise the balance needed to flesh out the rest of the crew and secure the locations for a shoot in late November/early December.
Principal photography for the film will happen in Atlanta, GA.
While we hope to film before the end of the year, we continue to monitor conditions and to study best practices for filming during Covid and are prepared to shift our timeline as necessary. Certain conditions, including peaks in new diagnoses and hospitalizations, may mean that the project film dates will be pushed back. If that happens, we will wait until the conditions have stabilized before we began to film. We are doing our best to remain flexible in all regards in order to produce this film safely.
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Thank You So Much for Considering Our Project,
The Fevered Dreams Team
Incentives
$10
Small and Mighty
We will shout you out in our Instagram stories, so make sure to follow us @fevereddreamsfilm and check them out.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
$25
Sweet Dreams
We are so grateful our project inspired you to give! To show that thanks, we will send you a digital postcard illustrated by J. L. Stovall, creator of Single Days (Coming Soon) and publicly thank you (or whomever you designate) on our Fevered Dreams social media page.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
$50
Virtual Screening + Sweet Dreams
Once the film is in final cut and has been accepted to its first film festival, you will receive a link to screen the film digitally. You will also be included in the "Special Thanks" in the film's credits.
We are so grateful our project inspired you to give! To show that thanks, we will send you a digital postcard illustrated by J. L. Stovall, creator of Single Days (Coming Soon) and publicly thank you (or whomever you designate) on our Fevered Dreams social media page.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
Claimed: 9 of 100
$100
Conversation with the Writer/Director + Virtual Screening + Sweet Dreams
After the invitations for the virtual screening have been sent, you will receive an invitation to a first-of-its-kind conversation with the Writer/Director. This conversation will likely be virtual but has the potential to be in person with a virtual component (subject to changing conditions).
Once the film is in final cut and has been accepted to it's first film festival, you will receive a link to screen the film digitally. You will also be included in the "Special Thanks" in the film's credits.
We are so grateful our project inspired you to give! To show that thanks, we will send you a digital postcard illustrated by J. L. Stovall, creator of Single Days (Coming Soon) and publicly thank you (or whomever you designate) on our Fevered Dreams social media page.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
Claimed: 7 of 25
$250
Zoom Meet and Greet and Table Read
Sit in on a Zoom Table Read of Act 1 of the film with the Cast and select members of the Crew. During a Table Read, the cast will perform the script complete with stage directions, in order to fine tune the dialogue and make other necessary adjustments.
After the Table Read, you will have a chance to chat with the actors about their experience and careers.
Total time of experience: 30-40 minutes.
This incentive includes the Virtual Screening, the Conversation with the Director, and Sweet Dreams.
Claimed: 1 of 4
$500
Immortalization in the Credits
We will name a character after you.
We cannot guarantee this character will be likable. This character may be someone the other characters don't like. They may be someone you don't like. They may be someone no one who ever sees this film will like. But we will guarantee this: they will not be the worst character in the film.
Your full name will appear in the credits in our character list and you will receive framed stills of the title sequence and your names in the credits.
Incentive will be delivered once a final draft of the film is completed. This incentive will include all other incentives.
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$10
Small and Mighty
We will shout you out in our Instagram stories, so make sure to follow us @fevereddreamsfilm and check them out.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
$25
Sweet Dreams
We are so grateful our project inspired you to give! To show that thanks, we will send you a digital postcard illustrated by J. L. Stovall, creator of Single Days (Coming Soon) and publicly thank you (or whomever you designate) on our Fevered Dreams social media page.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
$50
Virtual Screening + Sweet Dreams
Once the film is in final cut and has been accepted to its first film festival, you will receive a link to screen the film digitally. You will also be included in the "Special Thanks" in the film's credits.
We are so grateful our project inspired you to give! To show that thanks, we will send you a digital postcard illustrated by J. L. Stovall, creator of Single Days (Coming Soon) and publicly thank you (or whomever you designate) on our Fevered Dreams social media page.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
Claimed: 9 of 100
$100
Conversation with the Writer/Director + Virtual Screening + Sweet Dreams
After the invitations for the virtual screening have been sent, you will receive an invitation to a first-of-its-kind conversation with the Writer/Director. This conversation will likely be virtual but has the potential to be in person with a virtual component (subject to changing conditions).
Once the film is in final cut and has been accepted to it's first film festival, you will receive a link to screen the film digitally. You will also be included in the "Special Thanks" in the film's credits.
We are so grateful our project inspired you to give! To show that thanks, we will send you a digital postcard illustrated by J. L. Stovall, creator of Single Days (Coming Soon) and publicly thank you (or whomever you designate) on our Fevered Dreams social media page.
Every contribution counts! Please continue to follow and support the project!
Claimed: 7 of 25
$250
Zoom Meet and Greet and Table Read
Sit in on a Zoom Table Read of Act 1 of the film with the Cast and select members of the Crew. During a Table Read, the cast will perform the script complete with stage directions, in order to fine tune the dialogue and make other necessary adjustments.
After the Table Read, you will have a chance to chat with the actors about their experience and careers.
Total time of experience: 30-40 minutes.
This incentive includes the Virtual Screening, the Conversation with the Director, and Sweet Dreams.
Claimed: 1 of 4
$500
Immortalization in the Credits
We will name a character after you.
We cannot guarantee this character will be likable. This character may be someone the other characters don't like. They may be someone you don't like. They may be someone no one who ever sees this film will like. But we will guarantee this: they will not be the worst character in the film.
Your full name will appear in the credits in our character list and you will receive framed stills of the title sequence and your names in the credits.
Incentive will be delivered once a final draft of the film is completed. This incentive will include all other incentives.
Sold Out!
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Current Team
About This Team
Writer/Director: L. M. Davis's life and work have been about two things: education and writing. She earned a Ph. D. in English in 2006 and is a scholar of African American and Native American literatures and cultures, with particular interest in the speculative production of these communities. She has spent more than a decade studying these cultures. L. M. Davis wrote her first novel while finishing out a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Recently, Davis’s writing has explored themes of the meaning and the value of black labor, the commodification of black bodies, and the iterations of late-stage capitalism.
Producer: Gabriela McNicoll was born in Brazil, but grew up in Miami, Orlando and Atlanta. In collaboration with her GDMF productions co-founder Dana E. Salter, Dana and Gaby are Atlanta filmmakers who make narrative and documentary films which focus largely on the culture, politics, and socioeconomic issues of women in the American South. Gaby's documentary and narrative short films have screened at venues in the US and internationally, including the Atlanta Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival, the Oxford Film Festival, the Isle of Man Film Festival, DOCUTAH and London's Little Wing.
Director of Photography: Colleen Gardner also known as Colbie Fray, is an American director, cinematographer and photographer, from Charlotte, NC now residing in Atlanta, GA. Pursuing her passion for film, she has since worked tirelessly in partnering with others in the film community and independently to foster creativity in the visual arts. A lover of everything “dope” and “artistic”, she began her film company Dope Artistic Focus Films (Dope AF Films) in 2017. Her new rising film company is a brand that produces original content such as narratives, music videos, and commercials. Her latest achievement has been her film “Under” being featured in the 2018’s Bronze Film Festival. This film speaks to Colbie’s artistic imprint with a focus on black women, women empowerment and the display of beauty outside of circumstances. She is self-taught and continues to learn new ways of storytelling through lighting and composition
Assistant Director: Indie Johnson is a 24-year-old Black, gender nonconforming trans fem who uses they/ them pronouns. They graduated from the University of North Texas with a degree in Media Arts and Media Management. They’ve held the Regional Communications Fellow position for Southerners On New Ground rooting their practices in organizing and world-building while helping to move campaign work and change narratives surrounding queer/trans person of color (QTPOC) and incarcerated people. They have created a television series, a web series, wrote, directed, and produced 5 short films and 8 digital commercials. They've also held a grassroots and marketing internship with A24 Films and a fellowship with Visionary Justice Storylab for their "Resisting Narratives of Erasure Series".
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