Infinity Care
Winston-Salem, North Carolina | Film Short
Animation, Sci-Fi
Infinity Care is a groundbreaking, 20-minute animated science fiction film inspired by a mother’s love. It explores the complex intersection of hope, death, disability, capitalism, generational support, and healing.
Infinity Care
Winston-Salem, North Carolina | Film Short
Animation, Sci-Fi
1 Campaigns | North Carolina, United States
27 supporters | followers
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$1,235
Goal: $1,600 for production
Infinity Care is a groundbreaking, 20-minute animated science fiction film inspired by a mother’s love. It explores the complex intersection of hope, death, disability, capitalism, generational support, and healing.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
What if you could hold someone you lost?
What if your child with disabilities could be "normal"?
What if you had to finance it?
Inside the Mysterious Infinity Care Complex
Loving mother Jane visits Infinity Care, a mysterious, hospital-esque corporation. Inside, she encounters a series of memories. Led by a robot Orderly, she wanders through her life with her special needs toddler, Genesee. Genesee's grandmother Bea and older brother Damian enjoy reading Peter Pan, having tea parties, and playing as Jane relives the beauty of her life with a complex child.
Though the challenges are immense, daily life is nonetheless bright. In the memories, Genesee also struggles with seizures. She eventually dies in the ER as her doctor is unable to revive her . . .
Jane has the chance to hold her daughter again at Infinity Care, but not as she was.
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The climactic reanimation sequence in Infinity Care evokes the uncanny valley of spending time with someone who is, in truth, gone from this world.
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We must reach 80% of our first $25,000 goal to access your donation!
An Impossible Question of Love and Loss
The heart of Infinity Care is a universal story of love and loss. We have all lost someone. Who would you talk to again if you had the ability to? What would you sacrifice to get that opportunity?
Our donation tiers allow you to memorialize your own lost loved one.
- "Your Own Infinity Care Card" – A customized digital appointment card with your name in a sci-fi-inspired, sharable design.
- Entry on the "Infinity Care Memory Wall", a digital memory display on the Infinity Care website, like the film’s wall screens.
- "Memory Capsule" – A sharable animated loop video tribute featuring a quote from the film, a dreamlike background, and your loved one’s name/image.
- "Whispers of Memory" – Submit a voice recording of a lost loved one’s name, which will be layered into the film’s end credits, alongside the Infinity Care team’s dedications.
- "Animated Immortality" - You or your loved one will be drawn into the film as a background character during the Halloween or lobby scene.
Please support Infinity Care by sharing on social media! Write your own or copy and paste your favorite with the campaign link:
- Love sci-fi? Love indie animation? Infinity Care is a groundbreaking animated short that needs your support. Share or donate today.
- Animation takes a village! Infinity Care is raising funds to bring this heartfelt sci-fi story to life. Help make it happen by pledging or sharing.
- I just backed Infinity Care! This animated short is pushing the boundaries of indie film and disability representation. Join me in supporting it.
- Help Infinity Care reach its next milestone! This women-led animated film needs your support—every share and donation makes a difference.
If You Love These Films & TV Shows, Please Share Infinity Care
Infinity Care is inspired heavily by the themes and explorations of Star Trek. Not only by the concept of interacting with computer generated, seemingly real people in the holodeck, but also the moral and ethical questions asked by the iconic franchise.
This is part of our reality already: some corporations are using artificial intelligence to mimic deceased loved ones - and they're charging for it.
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This film is unique in its approach, but it pulls the threads of films and television shows like LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In the Shadow of the Cypress, Hair Love, and Big Hero 6.
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Infinity Care is a personal story based on the real experiences and recurring dreams of writer/director Autumn Karen, who lost her daughter with disabilities suddenly to epilepsy at the age of three. Since birth, Hermione faced challenges requiring endless specialists and constant care, but underneath the leg braces, hearing aids, and glasses, beyond the hour long seizures and her nonverbal communication, she was a bright, precocious little girl.
At the time of her death, she’d been seizure free for four months.
Disability Representation in Film Matters
Our funding campaign started on March, 26th, 2025 - ten years to the day of Hermione's death from epilepsy. March 26th is also Purple Day for Epilepsy.
Our team is committed to showing disability onscreen with the tact that it deserves. In recent years, children with disabilities onscreen have been depicted by neurotypical actors and/or exploited in negative connotations. How media depicts both children and adults with disabilities shapes our wider worldview.
The spectre of "what would my child be without this disability" echoes through Jane as she plays with a reanimated, "normal" version of Genesee. Parents of children with disabilities, including writer/director Autumn Karen, cannot help but wonder.
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Accuracy and Building a Team who "Get it"
The actress voicing Genesee in the first section of the film has Emanuel Syndrome, the same genetic variation Hermione had. Animation Director Abby Davenport and her team are representing disability with accuracy and softening the blow of child loss and Sudden Unexplained Death from Epilepsy (SUDEP) by working closely with our partners in advocacy.
Infinity Care is being developed in partnership with C22C, a global collection of parents and people affected by chromosome 22 disorders who connect, advocate and grow, together.
Without Your Donation, Infinity Care Can't Come to Life
We are only just beginning.
Infinity Care is expected to take 18 months to complete, with an anticipated festival run starting in late 2026. That timeline only happens if we can pay our hard working artists to keep going. This is the first of six fundraising rounds to get Infinity Care completed, with multiple layers in addition to crowdfunding such as corporate sponsorship and grants.
This first round of fundraising on Seed & Spark funds:
✔️ Initial production startup costs
✔️ First phase of animation
✔️ Downpayment on music & vocal performances
Your support of Infinity Care goes directly to the artists behind this important film! No artificial intelligence is used in the creative production of Infinity Care. The hard human work in this project shows already in the production.
We'll keep going until Infinity Care is fully funded!
This is a lean, conscientious, equitable filmmaking process. Production is already underway, but our talented artists need your support to get this powerful story ready for the big screen.
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Accolades for Infinity Care's Script
As a script, Infinity Care won over a dozen awards, among them:
- Grand Jury Screenplay, BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival
- Best Screenplay, Art Experimental Screenings Film Festival
- Second Round, Austin Film Festival 2023
- Second Round, Austin Film Festival 2024
- Finalist, HorrOrigins Screenplay Competition
- Finalist, The Southern California Screenplay Competition
- Coverfly’s Red List
We Would Love to Hear From You
It's not enough to make a beautiful, thoughtful, authentic film - it needs to be seen.
With your help, Infinity Care has the potential to reach a wide audience through a strong run at major, Oscar-qualifying festivals before seeking a home on a major streaming service.
Please reach out if you have questions or would like to be a bigger part of this project! This unique, complex film has the potential to build community, and we are ready for it - together.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Animation Artist Team
Costs $1,200
Roughly 1/5 of the total budget for the animation team, covering hundreds of hours of artist labor
Vocal Performances
Costs $50
First payment in hiring & directing SAG actors - seeking casting of Star Trek voices to capture the sci-fi hopeful spirit of Infinity Care!
Music Composition
Costs $50
Downpayment on a powerful score through professionally composed music
Production, Safety Net, & Insurance
Costs $100
Essential production costs + required protection to ensure a smooth production & prevent delays from unforeseen challenges
Share this update!
About This Team
Development Company - Medusa's Gaze Films
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At Medusa’s Gaze Films, our mission is to amplify the voices of women and gender minorities by reframing film through an intentionally diverse gaze.
By filling 75% of behind the camera above-the-line and below-the-line roles with women and gender minorities, Medusa’s Gaze Films empowers creators in significant creative roles to help them showcase stories through their own lens.
Partner Organizations
This film is produced in partnership with C22C, a global collection of parents and people affected by chromosome 22 disorders who connect, advocate and grow, together. Genesee, the little girl in Infinity Care, has Emanuel Sydrome, an exceedingly rare chromosome 22 disorder. By collaborating with this incredible advocacy organzation, Infinity Care can create the highest level of authenticity in telling the story of a family living with Emanuel Syndrome.
We are also proud to have Cinefemme as the fiscal sponsor for Infinity Care.
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Infinity Care Team
Writer/Director Autumn Karen (she/they)
Infinity Care is a translation of a recurring dream that I had about her for years after her death. Hermione’s three brothers become one in this story, but the sprinklings of soccer balls, Neverland, fluffy purple dresses, and a strong grandmother are all true to life. The names of the characters are taken from Hermione’s godmother and her family. I was privileged to develop the script with the mentorship of Agatha Dominick at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts through a process that both opened the wound and helped heal it at the same time. Every time I tell this story it makes her legacy a little wider, but more importantly I've found it brings people together.
Autumn Karen is a filmmaker, journalist, ghostwriter, and educator who uses writing to elevate traditionally unheard stories. She's English faculty at High Point University, a recent Honors Fellow at UNC Greensboro, founder of Woven Lines Publishing, and a longtime contributor to local independent paper Triad City Beat. She holds a BA in Women's Studies from UNC Asheville, a Masters of Arts in Special Education from WCU, and an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Her award winning work as a journalist, author, and screenwriter centers on themes such as systematic oppression, grief, and complex societal relationships. As a college professor, she's created original courses including Writing for the Medical Humanities and The Art of Ghostwriting and has a textbook on ghostwriting coming from Kendall Hunt imprint Innovative Ink in 2025. Among her credited co-authored books in her last decade as a ghostwriter are Mississippi Still Burning: From Hoods to Suits, the story of a Black preacher who took over the KKK from prison, and Amy: Book One, an empowerment erotica novel. She’s a founder of Medusa’s Gaze, a film development and distribution company that focuses on amplifying the voices of women and gender diverse creators.
Animation Director Abby Davenport (she/her)
Abby Davenport is a freelance artist, animator, and background artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. A graduate of Animation Filmmaking at UNCSA, they have worked on a variety of animated projects, bringing a strong visual style and storytelling sensibility to their work.
Over the past year, Abby has contributed to multiple animation projects, including the animated music video KHIRKI for Taha G. and was part of the Women in Animation Mentorship Program. Previously, she directed and contributed to various aspects of the 2D animated Christmas short Faith and the Christmas Star, now in its festival run. Additionally, she served as an animator, background artist, and designer for the upcoming pilot animatic Lumi and The Great Big Galaxy. In 2022, Abby co-directed and worked as Lead Background Artist on the student film Sonata, which screened at Moebius, NFFTY, Beaufort IFF, Long Leaf, Joedance, and Cucalorus. In 2021, she co-directed the award-winning animated short Mundance, which won Best Score at the Reel to Reel Film Festival and was featured at RiverRun, Full Bloom Film Fest, Long Leaf, Joedance, and several others.
Abby continues to push creative boundaries in animation, blending distinctive artistry with compelling storytelling to bring unique worlds to life.
Composer Lavelle Curtis (she/her)
Born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas, Lavelle has been surrounded by music her entire life. She is a keyboardist, alto saxophonist, and singer. As a child, she was always curious about the sounds she heard on television while watching her favorite shows. It wasn't until college that she decided to embark on a journey into film scoring. Lavelle earned her Master's Degree in Film Music Composition from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She loves creating new synth textures, enjoying a good baseball game, and occasionally indulging in cracked conch.
Producer Mary Craven Adams (she/her)
Mary Craven Adams is a Screenwriter, Producer, and Lawyer. She holds a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law and an MFA from UNCSA. She has volunteered with film centered nonprofits for over a decade, including being chair of the RiverRun International Film Festival, on the executive committee of the Piedmont Triad Film Commission, and a board member of Project 411 Space. She volunteers on the Sports and Entertainment Law Council of the North Carolina Bar Association.
She has written and co-written multiple produced short films, including Women of Acadia Street and Bridge of Dreams, and is the executive producer of Spitting Image. Most of her feature screenwriting is in the coming-of age and drama genres. Her background as a litigator has proven fertile ground for conflict driven stories that explore the goals that characters are willing to sacrifice anything in order to obtain. Her greatest accomplishment of 2024 is kicking a 35 year old Diet Coke addiction.
Producer Stephen V. Stone (⚧ /⚧)
Stephen is an award-winning filmmaker who created the first long form photoanimation film in history. Stephen's father purchased a manual 35mm camera for him when Stephen was 12 and the love of images began. Stephen set out to be an astronaut but a chance viewing of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in a public library at age 17 struck like a lightning bolt and film has been Stephen's core passion ever since. Stephen has been the filmmaker (write/direct/DP/edit/post) on over twenty short narrative, documentary, experimental and animation films that have screened at numerous festivals and in cyberspace as well as co-produced/DP’d a low budget action horror feature.
Stephen spent 15 years creating his multiplane photoanimation labor of love, “In Saturn’s Rings”, narrated by LeVar Burton, a science meets art documentary produced for giant screen and fulldome planetariums, currently in globally theatrical release. Although diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in 2021, Stephen has transformed an approach to allow the passion for filmmaking to continue, including supporting the rights of all disabled artists. Stephen lives in Greensboro, NC with artist partner Marie Stone and three cats, Obi, Kylo & Gypsy.
Producer Ellie Pobis (she/her)
Ellie Pobis is a Screenwriter, Director, and Cinematographer from Columbia, SC. She currently resides on Hilton Head Island where her craft is deeply inspired by the natural beauty of marsh grass, sunsets, and cicada song-laden nights.
Ellie holds a BA in English from Reed College and an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Ellie's rigorous academic journey at Reed culminated in a thesis exploring unconventional narratives and the feminist reinterpretation of the coming-of-age model. This work still steeping in the back of her mind, Ellie went on to write her Master’s Thesis, The Tale of Maggie Comer. While in graduate school, she also co-wrote, co-produced, and co-directed the short film Peanut Butter Whiskey, sparking her love of being on set. A poet and cinephile from a young age, she is passionate about transforming ideas and words into stories large enough for the silver screen. Other credits include: Women of Acadia Street, Feedback, and Astrogenesis
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
What if you could hold someone you lost?
What if your child with disabilities could be "normal"?
What if you had to finance it?
Inside the Mysterious Infinity Care Complex
Loving mother Jane visits Infinity Care, a mysterious, hospital-esque corporation. Inside, she encounters a series of memories. Led by a robot Orderly, she wanders through her life with her special needs toddler, Genesee. Genesee's grandmother Bea and older brother Damian enjoy reading Peter Pan, having tea parties, and playing as Jane relives the beauty of her life with a complex child.
Though the challenges are immense, daily life is nonetheless bright. In the memories, Genesee also struggles with seizures. She eventually dies in the ER as her doctor is unable to revive her . . .
Jane has the chance to hold her daughter again at Infinity Care, but not as she was.
The climactic reanimation sequence in Infinity Care evokes the uncanny valley of spending time with someone who is, in truth, gone from this world.
We must reach 80% of our first $25,000 goal to access your donation!
An Impossible Question of Love and Loss
The heart of Infinity Care is a universal story of love and loss. We have all lost someone. Who would you talk to again if you had the ability to? What would you sacrifice to get that opportunity?
Our donation tiers allow you to memorialize your own lost loved one.
- "Your Own Infinity Care Card" – A customized digital appointment card with your name in a sci-fi-inspired, sharable design.
- Entry on the "Infinity Care Memory Wall", a digital memory display on the Infinity Care website, like the film’s wall screens.
- "Memory Capsule" – A sharable animated loop video tribute featuring a quote from the film, a dreamlike background, and your loved one’s name/image.
- "Whispers of Memory" – Submit a voice recording of a lost loved one’s name, which will be layered into the film’s end credits, alongside the Infinity Care team’s dedications.
- "Animated Immortality" - You or your loved one will be drawn into the film as a background character during the Halloween or lobby scene.
Please support Infinity Care by sharing on social media! Write your own or copy and paste your favorite with the campaign link:
- Love sci-fi? Love indie animation? Infinity Care is a groundbreaking animated short that needs your support. Share or donate today.
- Animation takes a village! Infinity Care is raising funds to bring this heartfelt sci-fi story to life. Help make it happen by pledging or sharing.
- I just backed Infinity Care! This animated short is pushing the boundaries of indie film and disability representation. Join me in supporting it.
- Help Infinity Care reach its next milestone! This women-led animated film needs your support—every share and donation makes a difference.
If You Love These Films & TV Shows, Please Share Infinity Care
Infinity Care is inspired heavily by the themes and explorations of Star Trek. Not only by the concept of interacting with computer generated, seemingly real people in the holodeck, but also the moral and ethical questions asked by the iconic franchise.
This is part of our reality already: some corporations are using artificial intelligence to mimic deceased loved ones - and they're charging for it.
This film is unique in its approach, but it pulls the threads of films and television shows like LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In the Shadow of the Cypress, Hair Love, and Big Hero 6.
Infinity Care is a personal story based on the real experiences and recurring dreams of writer/director Autumn Karen, who lost her daughter with disabilities suddenly to epilepsy at the age of three. Since birth, Hermione faced challenges requiring endless specialists and constant care, but underneath the leg braces, hearing aids, and glasses, beyond the hour long seizures and her nonverbal communication, she was a bright, precocious little girl.
At the time of her death, she’d been seizure free for four months.
Disability Representation in Film Matters
Our funding campaign started on March, 26th, 2025 - ten years to the day of Hermione's death from epilepsy. March 26th is also Purple Day for Epilepsy.
Our team is committed to showing disability onscreen with the tact that it deserves. In recent years, children with disabilities onscreen have been depicted by neurotypical actors and/or exploited in negative connotations. How media depicts both children and adults with disabilities shapes our wider worldview.
The spectre of "what would my child be without this disability" echoes through Jane as she plays with a reanimated, "normal" version of Genesee. Parents of children with disabilities, including writer/director Autumn Karen, cannot help but wonder.
Accuracy and Building a Team who "Get it"
The actress voicing Genesee in the first section of the film has Emanuel Syndrome, the same genetic variation Hermione had. Animation Director Abby Davenport and her team are representing disability with accuracy and softening the blow of child loss and Sudden Unexplained Death from Epilepsy (SUDEP) by working closely with our partners in advocacy.
Infinity Care is being developed in partnership with C22C, a global collection of parents and people affected by chromosome 22 disorders who connect, advocate and grow, together.
Without Your Donation, Infinity Care Can't Come to Life
We are only just beginning.
Infinity Care is expected to take 18 months to complete, with an anticipated festival run starting in late 2026. That timeline only happens if we can pay our hard working artists to keep going. This is the first of six fundraising rounds to get Infinity Care completed, with multiple layers in addition to crowdfunding such as corporate sponsorship and grants.
This first round of fundraising on Seed & Spark funds:
✔️ Initial production startup costs
✔️ First phase of animation
✔️ Downpayment on music & vocal performances
Your support of Infinity Care goes directly to the artists behind this important film! No artificial intelligence is used in the creative production of Infinity Care. The hard human work in this project shows already in the production.
We'll keep going until Infinity Care is fully funded!
This is a lean, conscientious, equitable filmmaking process. Production is already underway, but our talented artists need your support to get this powerful story ready for the big screen.
Accolades for Infinity Care's Script
As a script, Infinity Care won over a dozen awards, among them:
- Grand Jury Screenplay, BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival
- Best Screenplay, Art Experimental Screenings Film Festival
- Second Round, Austin Film Festival 2023
- Second Round, Austin Film Festival 2024
- Finalist, HorrOrigins Screenplay Competition
- Finalist, The Southern California Screenplay Competition
- Coverfly’s Red List
We Would Love to Hear From You
It's not enough to make a beautiful, thoughtful, authentic film - it needs to be seen.
With your help, Infinity Care has the potential to reach a wide audience through a strong run at major, Oscar-qualifying festivals before seeking a home on a major streaming service.
Please reach out if you have questions or would like to be a bigger part of this project! This unique, complex film has the potential to build community, and we are ready for it - together.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Animation Artist Team
Costs $1,200
Roughly 1/5 of the total budget for the animation team, covering hundreds of hours of artist labor
Vocal Performances
Costs $50
First payment in hiring & directing SAG actors - seeking casting of Star Trek voices to capture the sci-fi hopeful spirit of Infinity Care!
Music Composition
Costs $50
Downpayment on a powerful score through professionally composed music
Production, Safety Net, & Insurance
Costs $100
Essential production costs + required protection to ensure a smooth production & prevent delays from unforeseen challenges
Share this update!
About This Team
Development Company - Medusa's Gaze Films
At Medusa’s Gaze Films, our mission is to amplify the voices of women and gender minorities by reframing film through an intentionally diverse gaze.
By filling 75% of behind the camera above-the-line and below-the-line roles with women and gender minorities, Medusa’s Gaze Films empowers creators in significant creative roles to help them showcase stories through their own lens.
Partner Organizations
This film is produced in partnership with C22C, a global collection of parents and people affected by chromosome 22 disorders who connect, advocate and grow, together. Genesee, the little girl in Infinity Care, has Emanuel Sydrome, an exceedingly rare chromosome 22 disorder. By collaborating with this incredible advocacy organzation, Infinity Care can create the highest level of authenticity in telling the story of a family living with Emanuel Syndrome.
We are also proud to have Cinefemme as the fiscal sponsor for Infinity Care.
Infinity Care Team
Writer/Director Autumn Karen (she/they)
Infinity Care is a translation of a recurring dream that I had about her for years after her death. Hermione’s three brothers become one in this story, but the sprinklings of soccer balls, Neverland, fluffy purple dresses, and a strong grandmother are all true to life. The names of the characters are taken from Hermione’s godmother and her family. I was privileged to develop the script with the mentorship of Agatha Dominick at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts through a process that both opened the wound and helped heal it at the same time. Every time I tell this story it makes her legacy a little wider, but more importantly I've found it brings people together.
Autumn Karen is a filmmaker, journalist, ghostwriter, and educator who uses writing to elevate traditionally unheard stories. She's English faculty at High Point University, a recent Honors Fellow at UNC Greensboro, founder of Woven Lines Publishing, and a longtime contributor to local independent paper Triad City Beat. She holds a BA in Women's Studies from UNC Asheville, a Masters of Arts in Special Education from WCU, and an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Her award winning work as a journalist, author, and screenwriter centers on themes such as systematic oppression, grief, and complex societal relationships. As a college professor, she's created original courses including Writing for the Medical Humanities and The Art of Ghostwriting and has a textbook on ghostwriting coming from Kendall Hunt imprint Innovative Ink in 2025. Among her credited co-authored books in her last decade as a ghostwriter are Mississippi Still Burning: From Hoods to Suits, the story of a Black preacher who took over the KKK from prison, and Amy: Book One, an empowerment erotica novel. She’s a founder of Medusa’s Gaze, a film development and distribution company that focuses on amplifying the voices of women and gender diverse creators.
Animation Director Abby Davenport (she/her)
Abby Davenport is a freelance artist, animator, and background artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. A graduate of Animation Filmmaking at UNCSA, they have worked on a variety of animated projects, bringing a strong visual style and storytelling sensibility to their work.
Over the past year, Abby has contributed to multiple animation projects, including the animated music video KHIRKI for Taha G. and was part of the Women in Animation Mentorship Program. Previously, she directed and contributed to various aspects of the 2D animated Christmas short Faith and the Christmas Star, now in its festival run. Additionally, she served as an animator, background artist, and designer for the upcoming pilot animatic Lumi and The Great Big Galaxy. In 2022, Abby co-directed and worked as Lead Background Artist on the student film Sonata, which screened at Moebius, NFFTY, Beaufort IFF, Long Leaf, Joedance, and Cucalorus. In 2021, she co-directed the award-winning animated short Mundance, which won Best Score at the Reel to Reel Film Festival and was featured at RiverRun, Full Bloom Film Fest, Long Leaf, Joedance, and several others.
Abby continues to push creative boundaries in animation, blending distinctive artistry with compelling storytelling to bring unique worlds to life.
Composer Lavelle Curtis (she/her)
Born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas, Lavelle has been surrounded by music her entire life. She is a keyboardist, alto saxophonist, and singer. As a child, she was always curious about the sounds she heard on television while watching her favorite shows. It wasn't until college that she decided to embark on a journey into film scoring. Lavelle earned her Master's Degree in Film Music Composition from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She loves creating new synth textures, enjoying a good baseball game, and occasionally indulging in cracked conch.
Producer Mary Craven Adams (she/her)
Mary Craven Adams is a Screenwriter, Producer, and Lawyer. She holds a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law and an MFA from UNCSA. She has volunteered with film centered nonprofits for over a decade, including being chair of the RiverRun International Film Festival, on the executive committee of the Piedmont Triad Film Commission, and a board member of Project 411 Space. She volunteers on the Sports and Entertainment Law Council of the North Carolina Bar Association.
She has written and co-written multiple produced short films, including Women of Acadia Street and Bridge of Dreams, and is the executive producer of Spitting Image. Most of her feature screenwriting is in the coming-of age and drama genres. Her background as a litigator has proven fertile ground for conflict driven stories that explore the goals that characters are willing to sacrifice anything in order to obtain. Her greatest accomplishment of 2024 is kicking a 35 year old Diet Coke addiction.
Producer Stephen V. Stone (⚧ /⚧)
Stephen is an award-winning filmmaker who created the first long form photoanimation film in history. Stephen's father purchased a manual 35mm camera for him when Stephen was 12 and the love of images began. Stephen set out to be an astronaut but a chance viewing of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in a public library at age 17 struck like a lightning bolt and film has been Stephen's core passion ever since. Stephen has been the filmmaker (write/direct/DP/edit/post) on over twenty short narrative, documentary, experimental and animation films that have screened at numerous festivals and in cyberspace as well as co-produced/DP’d a low budget action horror feature.
Stephen spent 15 years creating his multiplane photoanimation labor of love, “In Saturn’s Rings”, narrated by LeVar Burton, a science meets art documentary produced for giant screen and fulldome planetariums, currently in globally theatrical release. Although diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in 2021, Stephen has transformed an approach to allow the passion for filmmaking to continue, including supporting the rights of all disabled artists. Stephen lives in Greensboro, NC with artist partner Marie Stone and three cats, Obi, Kylo & Gypsy.
Producer Ellie Pobis (she/her)
Ellie Pobis is a Screenwriter, Director, and Cinematographer from Columbia, SC. She currently resides on Hilton Head Island where her craft is deeply inspired by the natural beauty of marsh grass, sunsets, and cicada song-laden nights.
Ellie holds a BA in English from Reed College and an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Ellie's rigorous academic journey at Reed culminated in a thesis exploring unconventional narratives and the feminist reinterpretation of the coming-of-age model. This work still steeping in the back of her mind, Ellie went on to write her Master’s Thesis, The Tale of Maggie Comer. While in graduate school, she also co-wrote, co-produced, and co-directed the short film Peanut Butter Whiskey, sparking her love of being on set. A poet and cinephile from a young age, she is passionate about transforming ideas and words into stories large enough for the silver screen. Other credits include: Women of Acadia Street, Feedback, and Astrogenesis