I Think I'd Like to Stay
Gig Harbor, Washington | Film Short
Drama, Experimental
This film is a love letter to the Pacific Northwest and a step toward building and supporting the filmmaking community of such a wonderful place. It weaves grounded drama with experimental and fantastical filmmaking and your help will allow our talented artisans to bring this exciting story to life!
I Think I'd Like to Stay
Gig Harbor, Washington | Film Short
Drama, Experimental
1 Campaigns | California, United States
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This film is a love letter to the Pacific Northwest and a step toward building and supporting the filmmaking community of such a wonderful place. It weaves grounded drama with experimental and fantastical filmmaking and your help will allow our talented artisans to bring this exciting story to life!
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The Story
I Think I'd Like to Stay follows a young woman returning to her childhood home with her partner for a short trip. On the last night of the trip, while taking a bath, she is swallowed by the land. A forest consumes her parent's bathroom as the place beckons her to stay.
She floats in a liminal space of memories shared with her by the land. It shows her their relationship past, present, and future. She integrates with these memories, consumed by them, when her partner draws her back to the present. She must decide whether to return with him to their current life or stay and honor a lost relationship with the place she left.
credit-Katherine Thomas
Roots
In March of 2020 the constant deluge of work that defined my Costume career in Film and TV evaporated. In a few short days everything about my life changed. I soon found myself in the forced stillness of a lockdown at my childhood home in Gig Harbor, Washington.
It was the first time I had been home for a prolonged amount of time since I was 18. It felt like being back with an old friend I had lost contact with but whom had never forgotten me. I felt held by the cedars, the salty freshness of the beach, the rain, the florescent green of dappled spring light, the thick velvety moss everywhere, and the sound of wind. I just started writing. Within a few months I had written 6 scripts about this place and my experiences growing up there. I Think I'd Like to Stay is the first of this anthology to be produced.
In sharing this script with you and putting together a team, I've found this project resonates with people in 2 distinct ways: a deep love of the Pacific Northwest and a common understanding of what it is to be in love with a place.
First Growth
This very connection was a driving factor in our production: Casting our lead actor and composer Isa Vidal. Isa posted the below video of herself recording on her Instagram in January this year shortly after I committed to making this film. I knew the film sounded like this. I had no idea she was connected with the Northwest before then. I sent her the script with the hope she'd understand it and might consider collaborating. She responded with the most beautifully enthusiastic email and immediately there was a kinship between us rooted in a desire to be with the same place.
LINK : ISA VIDAL ON ORCAS ISLAND
Grounded In Enchantment
The experience of relationship with place is very real but past a description language can give. This film seeks to honor the realness and the enchantment of this feeling. Aesthetically we will draw on the very grounded styles of directors like Kelly Reichardt and Apichatpong Weerasethakul with the magical world view of Guillermo Del Toro. We lean into the natural enchantment of the world around us; to visually capture those things that a place shares with us and make us feel something deeper but are not fantasy.
By the end of this film an audience will feel that perhaps everything with it is real.
Be With Us
This film is collaborative, but we want to think of this collaboration beyond departments.
This film aches to lean into natural collaboration; looking to the place itself to inform our creative decisions. What do the natural rhythms of the day reveal to us? What does the sound of the wind through cedars inspire? How does evaporation of dew change what we see? What do the tides show us when they change? We will be collaborating with our locations as much as our colleagues.
Where does that leave you?
Investing in our crew comes 1st. Their imagination, skillset, and care for this project will bring it to life. We've secured our crew funding for our 5 day shoot. It's the majority of $40,000 our budget. Now we need to provide them with the tools they need to do their job well!
That's where you come in! We need to make just over $15,000 (about 39% of our budget) to finance the film. This money goes directly to covering our production costs.
Please know: no amount is too small! We know financial contributions aren't possible for everyone. A lot of supplies needed to make production run smoothly (tables, pop up tents, coolers, extension cords, craft supplies, etc.). If you can't contribute financially you can reach out to our socials to find out tangible, non-financial ways to help!
Also remember: sharing is caring! Just sharing our campaign on social media or with friends helps tremendously!
Stretch Goals
What happens if we surpass our goal? We cry tears of gratitude, then:
$18k: This Funding covers film festival submissions, mastering costs, and marketing.
$25k: We boost our post-production budget - a longer schedule and more revisions leads to stronger results in editing, scoring, sound mixing!
$30k: We'd be EXTREMELY HUMBLED and we (the director and producers) would be able to pay ourselves a small amount! We aren't in this for money and we pour all of ourselves into our work - this covers the time we are taking away from paid work to make this film.
Thank you
Thank you forever for you generous contributions, valuing independent film, and being here on this journey.
A Message of Intention
"This film is about my personal relationship with home. In that, my experience of home is privileged and a product of Colonialism. This script has the potential to perpetuate Settler Colonial ideas of the “ideal individual alone in the wilderness”, “humans sperate from nature”, or "nature as perfect without people". I believe these ideas are harmful to all people; especially the Coast Salish tribes of the Pacific Northwest who've cultivated relationships with this place for thousands of years before my ancestors. It is important to me that this film does not represent ideas rooted in that system.
I am working against these ideas by crafting intentional visual metaphors, treating our locations with ecological respect, prioritizing an enviromentally consious set, and centering this piece on the theme:Relationship. Relationship implies a consent and dialogue between the parties involved. The space our main character hopes to return to is one of engaged relationship. I personally believe treating Places with agency has the power to shift our perspective out of one created by Colonialism.
I acknowledge my blindspots in this effort. The best I can do is to actively work to undo them. It is my intention that this film be an extension of that undoing rather than perpetuation of harm. I encourage my cast, crew, and truly all involved, including you, to be conscious and critical of our work and call to my attention when our efforts fail."
Brianna B. Murphy, Writer/Director
(Olaf Otto Becker- Ghost Trees After Deforestation)
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
The Bathroom Transformation
Costs $4,000
Transforming a household bathroom into a forest is a key plot point in this film. And it looks cool.
Home Away from Home
Costs $1,200
We are displacing 6 folks and 2 dogs to shoot in their home, they need a place to stay!
Camera Package
Costs $5,000
Key need for a movie! And we are shooting in tight spaces which requires some special equipment.
Foodies
Costs $1,500
Keep our crew full and happy! Help us feed them!
Grip and Electric Package
Costs $1,200
Help us play God and shape light... JK but help our G&E team have the supplies they need to succeed!
Hard Drives
Costs $400
Hard drives are the place our footage likes to stay! Help us keep our movie organized and backed up!
Get Us Around
Costs $2,000
Gas is expensive and some of our crew is traveling from far parts of the PNW. Help us get them here!
Dress the Forest
Costs $300
We have a few specialty costumes that aren't in your average closet. Help us create them!
Porta Potty
Costs $200
Some of our locations don't have restroom access. Help support our butts!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
OUR TEAM!
(So far... in no particular order)
Brianna Murphy
Writer - Director - Producer
"Honestly, I am just so excited to do what I love, in a place that I love, with a whole lot of talented folks. This is my first time directing, which is... SCARY... but I am so confident in our crew and the clarity of the story that fear is also excitement."
Julian Doan
Producer - Editor
"I'm so excited about the editorial process for this film - both a combination of classical editing and some rule breaking to distort a sense of time and space. I’m really excited about this team, everyone is so thoughtful and creative and I can’t wait to see the footage that comes out of this!”
Isa Vidal
Actor- Composer
“I have so many visceral memories as a kid of my relationship with the landscape in Northwest; jumping into the lake with friends, setting crab traps in the Puget Sound, spending hours running through the forest alone, skipping rocks at Alki beach. Growing up being outside, especially in the forest, was my safe place. To this day no place makes me feel more calm or held than the whiff of a sea salt breeze and the sight of iridescent moss on evergreen trees. When I read Brianna's script I felt intense kinship with her and the main character. We have both been bringing our partners up to Seattle and always feel the call to stay. Every chance I get since I left for college at the age of 18, I come back to the PNW - it is my home.”
Gian Torri
Actor - Musician
"Looking forward to making magic."
Ranya Chen-Aloui
Cinematographer
“I was drawn to the project because at its core it is about one woman’s love for the land that raised her, and the near biological pull she feels to return. I'm looking forward to using increasingly surreal imagery, painterly camera transitions, and shifting perspectives to create a dramatic and exciting visual landscape to explore these feelings in.”
Sophia Odegard
Production Designer
"I started my film career in the costume department but have always been fascinated by the transformational magic on a space achieved through Production Design. I am excited most of all to be working with all the Northwest plant life to make the transformations in this script come alive."
Justin Vinall
1st Assistant Director
"Brianna has a very clear and distinct vision for what she is trying to get across with this intimate and fascinating tale. I want to help make that a reality from moment to moment on set!"
Heidi DuBose
Sound Mixer
"When I read the script I just knew I had to jump in, growing up in the Pacific Northwest and being a little girl running through the woods was such a part of my world that I'm looking forward to supporting Brianna as she captures the spirit of this place."
Jae Francis
Assistant Art Director
"I’m so excited to work with Brianna and Julian again on another great project. Bringing these sets to life is something I’ve been looking forward to since i first read the script. Can’t wait to meet the crew and create Brianna’s vision together. "
Courtney Ryals
Assistant Art Director
"The PNW is the perfect inspiration for creating this new world of wander and curiosity. I can’t wait to work with this cast and crew! "
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The Story
I Think I'd Like to Stay follows a young woman returning to her childhood home with her partner for a short trip. On the last night of the trip, while taking a bath, she is swallowed by the land. A forest consumes her parent's bathroom as the place beckons her to stay.
She floats in a liminal space of memories shared with her by the land. It shows her their relationship past, present, and future. She integrates with these memories, consumed by them, when her partner draws her back to the present. She must decide whether to return with him to their current life or stay and honor a lost relationship with the place she left.
credit-Katherine Thomas
Roots
In March of 2020 the constant deluge of work that defined my Costume career in Film and TV evaporated. In a few short days everything about my life changed. I soon found myself in the forced stillness of a lockdown at my childhood home in Gig Harbor, Washington.
It was the first time I had been home for a prolonged amount of time since I was 18. It felt like being back with an old friend I had lost contact with but whom had never forgotten me. I felt held by the cedars, the salty freshness of the beach, the rain, the florescent green of dappled spring light, the thick velvety moss everywhere, and the sound of wind. I just started writing. Within a few months I had written 6 scripts about this place and my experiences growing up there. I Think I'd Like to Stay is the first of this anthology to be produced.
In sharing this script with you and putting together a team, I've found this project resonates with people in 2 distinct ways: a deep love of the Pacific Northwest and a common understanding of what it is to be in love with a place.
First Growth
This very connection was a driving factor in our production: Casting our lead actor and composer Isa Vidal. Isa posted the below video of herself recording on her Instagram in January this year shortly after I committed to making this film. I knew the film sounded like this. I had no idea she was connected with the Northwest before then. I sent her the script with the hope she'd understand it and might consider collaborating. She responded with the most beautifully enthusiastic email and immediately there was a kinship between us rooted in a desire to be with the same place.
LINK : ISA VIDAL ON ORCAS ISLAND
Grounded In Enchantment
The experience of relationship with place is very real but past a description language can give. This film seeks to honor the realness and the enchantment of this feeling. Aesthetically we will draw on the very grounded styles of directors like Kelly Reichardt and Apichatpong Weerasethakul with the magical world view of Guillermo Del Toro. We lean into the natural enchantment of the world around us; to visually capture those things that a place shares with us and make us feel something deeper but are not fantasy.
By the end of this film an audience will feel that perhaps everything with it is real.
Be With Us
This film is collaborative, but we want to think of this collaboration beyond departments.
This film aches to lean into natural collaboration; looking to the place itself to inform our creative decisions. What do the natural rhythms of the day reveal to us? What does the sound of the wind through cedars inspire? How does evaporation of dew change what we see? What do the tides show us when they change? We will be collaborating with our locations as much as our colleagues.
Where does that leave you?
Investing in our crew comes 1st. Their imagination, skillset, and care for this project will bring it to life. We've secured our crew funding for our 5 day shoot. It's the majority of $40,000 our budget. Now we need to provide them with the tools they need to do their job well!
That's where you come in! We need to make just over $15,000 (about 39% of our budget) to finance the film. This money goes directly to covering our production costs.
Please know: no amount is too small! We know financial contributions aren't possible for everyone. A lot of supplies needed to make production run smoothly (tables, pop up tents, coolers, extension cords, craft supplies, etc.). If you can't contribute financially you can reach out to our socials to find out tangible, non-financial ways to help!
Also remember: sharing is caring! Just sharing our campaign on social media or with friends helps tremendously!
Stretch Goals
What happens if we surpass our goal? We cry tears of gratitude, then:
$18k: This Funding covers film festival submissions, mastering costs, and marketing.
$25k: We boost our post-production budget - a longer schedule and more revisions leads to stronger results in editing, scoring, sound mixing!
$30k: We'd be EXTREMELY HUMBLED and we (the director and producers) would be able to pay ourselves a small amount! We aren't in this for money and we pour all of ourselves into our work - this covers the time we are taking away from paid work to make this film.
Thank you
Thank you forever for you generous contributions, valuing independent film, and being here on this journey.
A Message of Intention
"This film is about my personal relationship with home. In that, my experience of home is privileged and a product of Colonialism. This script has the potential to perpetuate Settler Colonial ideas of the “ideal individual alone in the wilderness”, “humans sperate from nature”, or "nature as perfect without people". I believe these ideas are harmful to all people; especially the Coast Salish tribes of the Pacific Northwest who've cultivated relationships with this place for thousands of years before my ancestors. It is important to me that this film does not represent ideas rooted in that system.
I am working against these ideas by crafting intentional visual metaphors, treating our locations with ecological respect, prioritizing an enviromentally consious set, and centering this piece on the theme:Relationship. Relationship implies a consent and dialogue between the parties involved. The space our main character hopes to return to is one of engaged relationship. I personally believe treating Places with agency has the power to shift our perspective out of one created by Colonialism.
I acknowledge my blindspots in this effort. The best I can do is to actively work to undo them. It is my intention that this film be an extension of that undoing rather than perpetuation of harm. I encourage my cast, crew, and truly all involved, including you, to be conscious and critical of our work and call to my attention when our efforts fail."
Brianna B. Murphy, Writer/Director
(Olaf Otto Becker- Ghost Trees After Deforestation)
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
The Bathroom Transformation
Costs $4,000
Transforming a household bathroom into a forest is a key plot point in this film. And it looks cool.
Home Away from Home
Costs $1,200
We are displacing 6 folks and 2 dogs to shoot in their home, they need a place to stay!
Camera Package
Costs $5,000
Key need for a movie! And we are shooting in tight spaces which requires some special equipment.
Foodies
Costs $1,500
Keep our crew full and happy! Help us feed them!
Grip and Electric Package
Costs $1,200
Help us play God and shape light... JK but help our G&E team have the supplies they need to succeed!
Hard Drives
Costs $400
Hard drives are the place our footage likes to stay! Help us keep our movie organized and backed up!
Get Us Around
Costs $2,000
Gas is expensive and some of our crew is traveling from far parts of the PNW. Help us get them here!
Dress the Forest
Costs $300
We have a few specialty costumes that aren't in your average closet. Help us create them!
Porta Potty
Costs $200
Some of our locations don't have restroom access. Help support our butts!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
OUR TEAM!
(So far... in no particular order)
Brianna Murphy
Writer - Director - Producer
"Honestly, I am just so excited to do what I love, in a place that I love, with a whole lot of talented folks. This is my first time directing, which is... SCARY... but I am so confident in our crew and the clarity of the story that fear is also excitement."
Julian Doan
Producer - Editor
"I'm so excited about the editorial process for this film - both a combination of classical editing and some rule breaking to distort a sense of time and space. I’m really excited about this team, everyone is so thoughtful and creative and I can’t wait to see the footage that comes out of this!”
Isa Vidal
Actor- Composer
“I have so many visceral memories as a kid of my relationship with the landscape in Northwest; jumping into the lake with friends, setting crab traps in the Puget Sound, spending hours running through the forest alone, skipping rocks at Alki beach. Growing up being outside, especially in the forest, was my safe place. To this day no place makes me feel more calm or held than the whiff of a sea salt breeze and the sight of iridescent moss on evergreen trees. When I read Brianna's script I felt intense kinship with her and the main character. We have both been bringing our partners up to Seattle and always feel the call to stay. Every chance I get since I left for college at the age of 18, I come back to the PNW - it is my home.”
Gian Torri
Actor - Musician
"Looking forward to making magic."
Ranya Chen-Aloui
Cinematographer
“I was drawn to the project because at its core it is about one woman’s love for the land that raised her, and the near biological pull she feels to return. I'm looking forward to using increasingly surreal imagery, painterly camera transitions, and shifting perspectives to create a dramatic and exciting visual landscape to explore these feelings in.”
Sophia Odegard
Production Designer
"I started my film career in the costume department but have always been fascinated by the transformational magic on a space achieved through Production Design. I am excited most of all to be working with all the Northwest plant life to make the transformations in this script come alive."
Justin Vinall
1st Assistant Director
"Brianna has a very clear and distinct vision for what she is trying to get across with this intimate and fascinating tale. I want to help make that a reality from moment to moment on set!"
Heidi DuBose
Sound Mixer
"When I read the script I just knew I had to jump in, growing up in the Pacific Northwest and being a little girl running through the woods was such a part of my world that I'm looking forward to supporting Brianna as she captures the spirit of this place."
Jae Francis
Assistant Art Director
"I’m so excited to work with Brianna and Julian again on another great project. Bringing these sets to life is something I’ve been looking forward to since i first read the script. Can’t wait to meet the crew and create Brianna’s vision together. "
Courtney Ryals
Assistant Art Director
"The PNW is the perfect inspiration for creating this new world of wander and curiosity. I can’t wait to work with this cast and crew! "