I'm Sorry, I Tried, I Love You
Seattle, Washington | Film Short
Horror, Thriller
When G. G. Silverman published her powerful short story in the middle of the pandemic, the story went viral. The script, adapted by Goldie Jones, creates a gorgeously visual reimagining of that story that shines a powerful light on the struggles of women, especially as we emerge from this pandemic.
I'm Sorry, I Tried, I Love You
Seattle, Washington | Film Short
Horror, Thriller
2 Campaigns | Washington, United States
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When G. G. Silverman published her powerful short story in the middle of the pandemic, the story went viral. The script, adapted by Goldie Jones, creates a gorgeously visual reimagining of that story that shines a powerful light on the struggles of women, especially as we emerge from this pandemic.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
We're fully funded! But the campaign isn't over yet!
We are so incredibly grateful for all of the love and support that has helped us reach our funding goal. But as many of you know the funding goal is often the minimum needed for production. We still have one day left to raise funds that will absolutely help out our production immensely. So let's see if we can get the love going all the way to the final hour. ONE MORE DAY!
"I'm Sorry, I Tried, I Love You" is a five minute short film based on the short story by the same name by the award winning feminist horror author G. G. Silverman. The story was published in the middle of the pandemic and hit a nerve with audiences. The story went viral, quickly becoming the most shared story of her writing career.
The story follows a woman as she struggles to meet society's expectations of her as a mother, a wife, and a homemaker in the face of a mysterious infestation in her home.
When Goldie Jones read the short story she couldn't get it out of her head. She couldn't stop visualizing the story as a short film. Her script adaptation of the story is a gorgeously visual reimagining of womens' struggles against the confinement of domestication and the possibility for evolution in a woman's life when she breaks free from those restraints.
This film brings together an award winning and diverse cast and crew to bring this story to life.
We couldn't be more thrilled to have Finnerty Steeves on board to play the lead in "I'm Sorry, I Tried, I Love You". Finnerty is best known for her role as Beth "The Baby Killer" on Orange is the New Black. But her credits also include Bad Education, The Blacklist, Sneaky Pete, House of Cards, and Frances Ha.
She also just completed the festival run on her feature film "before/during/after" which she wrote, produced, and starred in and has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.
We will be filming in August of 2021 before heading into post production which will involve a significant amount of special effects, compositing, and sound design work to bring to life the crystalline shards that are at the center of this story.
We have an incredible team lined up lead by award winning writer/director Goldie Jones and award winning producer James J. Yi who produced the Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner Gook, directed by Justin Chon.
We have an Emmy award winning sound design team on deck to create the soundscape for the film. And a SFX artist who has worked on projects such as Benjamin Button and dozens of feature films and TV shows over the last 25 years. Just to name a few of the amazingly talented people we have contributing to this project.
Goldie Jones is an award winning Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Animator, and Editor who has been working in commercial video production and animation for 17 years and has been on sets in various roles for more than 20 years.
Goldie's most recent short, RAGE, had a successful festival run and gathered a handful of festival laurels, screened at Seattle Film Summit, was selected for the HollyShort Monthly Screening Series, and garnered an invitation to apply to the Through Her Lens directors program for women through Tribeca.
Goldie is also a published author, a 2021 Green Room Fellow, a 2020 Universal Writers Program Finalist, and a Semifinalist for the Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship for the Stowe Narrative Labs. Her feature scripts have won dozens of awards including taking 2nd place at Slamdance and Cinequest and have been Top 5 Finalists for production grants from WIF and ISA.
Her skill set as a writer as well as her experience on set and in post production make her the ideal artist to pull this project together.
For a look at her full list of awards and her portfolio of work head on over to her website.
The pandemic put unprecedented demands on women. Many women over the past year and a half have had to leave their careers to stay home with their kids. Or they have had to juggle childcare and homeschooling while also working from home. The pandemic has done significant harm to women in the work force and many women are struggling to figure out where they fit back into the outside world as we begin to emerge from the pandemic.
Which is why this particular story is so relevant right now and especially relevant to women right now.
Once this film is completed we plan to take it out to festivals and find online distribution for the film to share it with as large of an audience as possible.
COVID-19 SAFETY
We are dedicated to following any and all COVID-19 SET SAFETY protocols that are required for productions at the time of our shoot. Through out the pandemic we have always worked with a Covid Safety Officer on set to enforce that all safety protocols are being adhered to and maintaining a safe and supportive environment for all of our cast and crew.
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Talent
Costs $6,500
Paying the cast, casting, and housing costs.
Professional Fees
Costs $3,000
Legal fees, accounting fees, payroll fees
Locations
Costs $3,000
House, grocery store, and street closure costs
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About This Team
A classically-trained actress, Finnerty received her MFA from the graduate program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Although Finnerty has a love of the theater and numerous credits on and off Broadway, her truthful and intimate acting style has always lent itself to work in front of the camera.
She is best known for her work as inmate Beth Hoefler (aka Beth "The Baby Killer") on the Netflix hit show Orange Is The New Black. Other television credits include The Blacklist, Sneaky Pete, Bored to Death, The Big C, and Louie. Select film roles include Frances Ha (dir: Noah Bombach), Morning Glory (dir: Roger Michel), Away We Go (dir: Sam Mendes) and Bad Education with Allison Janney and Hugh Jackman (directed by Corey Finley).
before/during/after is Finnerty's first feature as a writer/producer.
Goldie Jones is an award winning writer, director, editor and animator who published her first short story at 16. In 2007 she founded her award winning Seattle based video production & animation company, Subversionz Media, and in 2017 she founded Seattle’s first aerial dance festival, Apogee Aerial Dance Festival.
She is a 2021 Green Room Fellow, a 2020 Universal Writers Program Finalist, and a Semifinalist for the Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship for the Stowe Narrative Labs. Her feature scripts have won dozens of awards including taking 2nd place at Slamdance and Cinequest and have been Top 5 Finalists for production grants from WIF and ISA.
Her non-commercial directorial work includes her award winning short film RAGE which just completed a successful festival run and the award winning experimental short STRONG GIRL. Goldie is also the author of the sci-fi novella Vigilance, an avid aerialist, street photographer, and world traveler.
For a full list of her awards and her portfolio of work head to her website at subversionz.com/goldiejones
G.G. Silverman is an author of speculative short fiction who lives just north of Seattle. She is also disabled and the daughter of immigrants. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthology Not All Monsters from StrangeHouse Books, and was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, among other honors.
Her work has also appeared in Speculative City, Psychopomp, Scissors + Spackle, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Iron Horse Literary Review, ellipsis, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. She is currently working on a collection of feminist speculative short fiction, which she hopes to pitch to agents and publishers by 2022.
For more information please visit http://www.ggsilverman.com
Born in Seoul and raised in San Francisco, James J. Yi is a passionate filmmaker dedicated to producing films that push creative and intellectual boundaries. He has worked on thought-provoking titles such as Mooz-Lum (2010), Detroit Unleaded (2012), Twinsters (2015), A Boy, A Girl, and A Dream (2018), and Miss Purple (2019). In 2017, he produced the Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner Gook, directed by Justin Chon.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
We're fully funded! But the campaign isn't over yet!
We are so incredibly grateful for all of the love and support that has helped us reach our funding goal. But as many of you know the funding goal is often the minimum needed for production. We still have one day left to raise funds that will absolutely help out our production immensely. So let's see if we can get the love going all the way to the final hour. ONE MORE DAY!
"I'm Sorry, I Tried, I Love You" is a five minute short film based on the short story by the same name by the award winning feminist horror author G. G. Silverman. The story was published in the middle of the pandemic and hit a nerve with audiences. The story went viral, quickly becoming the most shared story of her writing career.
The story follows a woman as she struggles to meet society's expectations of her as a mother, a wife, and a homemaker in the face of a mysterious infestation in her home.
When Goldie Jones read the short story she couldn't get it out of her head. She couldn't stop visualizing the story as a short film. Her script adaptation of the story is a gorgeously visual reimagining of womens' struggles against the confinement of domestication and the possibility for evolution in a woman's life when she breaks free from those restraints.
This film brings together an award winning and diverse cast and crew to bring this story to life.
We couldn't be more thrilled to have Finnerty Steeves on board to play the lead in "I'm Sorry, I Tried, I Love You". Finnerty is best known for her role as Beth "The Baby Killer" on Orange is the New Black. But her credits also include Bad Education, The Blacklist, Sneaky Pete, House of Cards, and Frances Ha.
She also just completed the festival run on her feature film "before/during/after" which she wrote, produced, and starred in and has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.
We will be filming in August of 2021 before heading into post production which will involve a significant amount of special effects, compositing, and sound design work to bring to life the crystalline shards that are at the center of this story.
We have an incredible team lined up lead by award winning writer/director Goldie Jones and award winning producer James J. Yi who produced the Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner Gook, directed by Justin Chon.
We have an Emmy award winning sound design team on deck to create the soundscape for the film. And a SFX artist who has worked on projects such as Benjamin Button and dozens of feature films and TV shows over the last 25 years. Just to name a few of the amazingly talented people we have contributing to this project.
Goldie Jones is an award winning Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Animator, and Editor who has been working in commercial video production and animation for 17 years and has been on sets in various roles for more than 20 years.
Goldie's most recent short, RAGE, had a successful festival run and gathered a handful of festival laurels, screened at Seattle Film Summit, was selected for the HollyShort Monthly Screening Series, and garnered an invitation to apply to the Through Her Lens directors program for women through Tribeca.
Goldie is also a published author, a 2021 Green Room Fellow, a 2020 Universal Writers Program Finalist, and a Semifinalist for the Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship for the Stowe Narrative Labs. Her feature scripts have won dozens of awards including taking 2nd place at Slamdance and Cinequest and have been Top 5 Finalists for production grants from WIF and ISA.
Her skill set as a writer as well as her experience on set and in post production make her the ideal artist to pull this project together.
For a look at her full list of awards and her portfolio of work head on over to her website.
The pandemic put unprecedented demands on women. Many women over the past year and a half have had to leave their careers to stay home with their kids. Or they have had to juggle childcare and homeschooling while also working from home. The pandemic has done significant harm to women in the work force and many women are struggling to figure out where they fit back into the outside world as we begin to emerge from the pandemic.
Which is why this particular story is so relevant right now and especially relevant to women right now.
Once this film is completed we plan to take it out to festivals and find online distribution for the film to share it with as large of an audience as possible.
COVID-19 SAFETY
We are dedicated to following any and all COVID-19 SET SAFETY protocols that are required for productions at the time of our shoot. Through out the pandemic we have always worked with a Covid Safety Officer on set to enforce that all safety protocols are being adhered to and maintaining a safe and supportive environment for all of our cast and crew.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Talent
Costs $6,500
Paying the cast, casting, and housing costs.
Professional Fees
Costs $3,000
Legal fees, accounting fees, payroll fees
Locations
Costs $3,000
House, grocery store, and street closure costs
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
A classically-trained actress, Finnerty received her MFA from the graduate program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Although Finnerty has a love of the theater and numerous credits on and off Broadway, her truthful and intimate acting style has always lent itself to work in front of the camera.
She is best known for her work as inmate Beth Hoefler (aka Beth "The Baby Killer") on the Netflix hit show Orange Is The New Black. Other television credits include The Blacklist, Sneaky Pete, Bored to Death, The Big C, and Louie. Select film roles include Frances Ha (dir: Noah Bombach), Morning Glory (dir: Roger Michel), Away We Go (dir: Sam Mendes) and Bad Education with Allison Janney and Hugh Jackman (directed by Corey Finley).
before/during/after is Finnerty's first feature as a writer/producer.
Goldie Jones is an award winning writer, director, editor and animator who published her first short story at 16. In 2007 she founded her award winning Seattle based video production & animation company, Subversionz Media, and in 2017 she founded Seattle’s first aerial dance festival, Apogee Aerial Dance Festival.
She is a 2021 Green Room Fellow, a 2020 Universal Writers Program Finalist, and a Semifinalist for the Tangerine Entertainment Fellowship for the Stowe Narrative Labs. Her feature scripts have won dozens of awards including taking 2nd place at Slamdance and Cinequest and have been Top 5 Finalists for production grants from WIF and ISA.
Her non-commercial directorial work includes her award winning short film RAGE which just completed a successful festival run and the award winning experimental short STRONG GIRL. Goldie is also the author of the sci-fi novella Vigilance, an avid aerialist, street photographer, and world traveler.
For a full list of her awards and her portfolio of work head to her website at subversionz.com/goldiejones
G.G. Silverman is an author of speculative short fiction who lives just north of Seattle. She is also disabled and the daughter of immigrants. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthology Not All Monsters from StrangeHouse Books, and was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, among other honors.
Her work has also appeared in Speculative City, Psychopomp, Scissors + Spackle, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Iron Horse Literary Review, ellipsis, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. She is currently working on a collection of feminist speculative short fiction, which she hopes to pitch to agents and publishers by 2022.
For more information please visit http://www.ggsilverman.com
Born in Seoul and raised in San Francisco, James J. Yi is a passionate filmmaker dedicated to producing films that push creative and intellectual boundaries. He has worked on thought-provoking titles such as Mooz-Lum (2010), Detroit Unleaded (2012), Twinsters (2015), A Boy, A Girl, and A Dream (2018), and Miss Purple (2019). In 2017, he produced the Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner Gook, directed by Justin Chon.