Is That All?
New York City, New York | Film Short
Drama, Comedy
Is That All? is a dreamy, fast-paced dark comedy exploring celebrity culture, taking place on a singular night out. When a NYC party girl and an A-List actor meet at a club, feelings are complicated by the realities of fame and power. What is genuine when detachment is expected?
Is That All?
New York City, New York | Film Short
Drama, Comedy
2 Campaigns | New York, United States
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Is That All? is a dreamy, fast-paced dark comedy exploring celebrity culture, taking place on a singular night out. When a NYC party girl and an A-List actor meet at a club, feelings are complicated by the realities of fame and power. What is genuine when detachment is expected?
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Sav, a NYC it-girl, arrives at her favorite downtown club. Inside, Taylor Young, an A-list actor spots her. Their connection is immediate, and soon Sav and her friends are invited back to his penthouse. As the night goes on, the group drifts away until it’s just Sav and Taylor. For a moment, it feels like something real.
The next morning, Taylor’s agent storms in. Taylor rushes out, and Sav is left alone, realizing the night was not a beginning — just another fleeting moment in the world she moves through.
We want this story to feel grounded and familiar: For every girl who goes home with a guy, wondering whether it was real or just the performance of intimacy. A lot can happen in one night out. But what's left the next morning, when the excitement fades and you're alone with your thoughts? Was that it? Is that all?
This film captures the rush of being seen, the imbalance beneath it, and the quiet emptiness that follows.
Tonally, this film is stylized realism. Our story takes place over the course of a single night, with our lead character, Sav, driving the narrative forward. We blend dreamy, intoxicating nightlife aesthetic with grounded, raw performances and emotion. Observational and unfiltered, the film sits at the intersection of Anora, The Bling Ring, and the chaotic naturalism of the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems and Good Time.
Our main character, Sav, is a party girl who thrives in the nightlife scene. Her connections are built on convenience, upward mobility, and self-interest. She wants to be desired by everyone but fears true vulnerability. Uncharacteristically, she allows herself to get swept up in the fantasy of her connection with Taylor. When it collapses, she's left feeling exactly what she tries to avoid: empty and disposable.
Taylor Young is a very famous actor who moves through life with effortless charm and detachment — someone used to getting whatever, and whoever, he wants without ever having to try. Taylor is tender, cold, sincere, performative, controlled and erratic. When he notices Sav, the question becomes — is it desire, boredom, or something real?
The tension is that it might be all three.
We are already half way funded and are raising the remaining funds to complete the film. We are fully in pre-production, with all of our department heads attached and a majority of our crew planning on shooting late March! This money will be used to properly pay our cast and crew and to cover essential production costs, including equipment and locations. Your donations will go directly to payment of our emerging, talented crew of creative peers. Many of us have been working together since college, growing together as artists, and this film is an extension of that shared trust and collaboration.
We will eventually be sharing this film online, but also plan to have opportunities for in-person private screenings and festivals!
If we exceed our goal, additional funds will go towards post-production costs, including sound, score, color-grading, and festival submissions. Exceeding our goal will even help us with renting a theater for a private screening in NYC for our cast, crew, and generous supporters!
CONTRIBUTE & PLEDGE
You can contribute to the making of this film by making a pledge (We need to raise at least 80% of our goal in order to keep any funds we have raised). No amount is too small, every dollar making us closer to our goal in making this film!
SPREAD THE WORD
Please share this campaign on social media - you can copy, paste:
Join me in supporting the dramatic comedy short film Is That All? You can contribute to their Seed & Spark and follow them on instagram at @isthatallfilm. Support them on @seedandspark: seedandspark.com/fund/isthatall
THANK YOU SO MUCH for reading & please follow our journey on instagram.
Wishlist
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WARDROBE & ART
Costs $1,000
This will cover all our costs for costumes and art department, ensuring we can build this world fully with unique costumes and props!
LOCATIONS
Costs $1,500
We need to be able to use a real NYC nightclub for this project and world to feel as real as possible!
EQUIPMENT
Costs $3,000
This gives us the ability to rent the proper lenses, camera, and lighting equipment, as well as giving us the ability to use a steadicam.
POST PRODUCTION
Costs $2,500
This will cover our sound mix, score, color-grading, and festival submissions.
PRODUCTION COSTS
Costs $2,000
Meals, coffee, snacks, van rentals! This ensures production has everything they need to support our cast & crew.
Cash Pledge
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About This Team
★Director & Co-Writer – Stella Gatti★
Stella Gatti is a New York–based writer and director. Her films have screened at Cinema Village, Nitehawk Prospect Park with NoBudge Live, the New York Shorts International Film Festival, Venezia Shorts, and the Mykonos Biennale. Her work is visually striking, with particular attention to cinematography and production design. She has also worked in production design and props on commercial and editorial projects for Vanity Fair, Elle, and Town & Country. Is That All? will be her third short film. @stellagatti
★Co-Writer, Story Creator, & Lead Actress – Madeleine Fisher★
Madeleine Fisher is a NYC based actor, director and writer. Her acting has screened at NoBudge, Portugal Film Fest, Orlando Film Fest, Neighborhood Film Fest, New York No Limits Film Fest. She was awarded Best Actress at Portugal Film Fest. This is her screenwriting debut. @madeleinehillfisher
★Director of Photography – Gus Aronson★
Gus Aronson is a photographer and filmmaker based out of Chinatown, NY. Embracing ambiguous narrative and vivid color as tools to push against ideas of the document, Gus rejects the notion that photographs are purely evidence of a time past. He explores how photographs can rather function as tarot cards: relics of the past and roadmaps for the future. He has been commissioned by Aperture, the New York Times, INTERVIEW, Cultured, New York Magazine, the Cut, Elle, and Aperture Magazine, and was part of the Aperture Summer Open 2020 "Information" show at Fotografiska, NY. His Films, and those that he's shot, have premiered with the Mill Valley Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, the Hammer Museum, the Independent of Film Festival of Boston, NoBudge Live, Film Shortage, and more. He is also a founding member and the DP for filmsecession.com an online film museum launched in 2024. This is Stella and Gus’s third collaboration.
★Producer – Syd Ross★
Syd Ross is an NYC-based Creative Producer and writer whose work spans commercial, digital, and studio projects. She blends narrative thinking and creative vision with hands-on producing, and her work has been featured in WWD, USA Today, and Ad Age. She is the co-founder of aud studios, a creative strategy and production agency.
★Producer – Madeline Corley★
Madeline Corley is a producer and marketing strategist who brings ideas to life across creative and strategy teams. Her experience spans luxury commercial, cultural, and celebrity experiential work—from the Super Bowl to NYFW. Madeline has produced 3D and anamorphic spots featured in Times Square and delivered global campaigns that blend narrative and premium production value.
★Production Designer – Theo Webb★
Theo Webb is a production designer and filmmaker from New York. As a designer, he is interested in creating hyper-detailed and dynamic spaces, in which the sets become characters of their own. He draws inspiration from Macgyvered-contraptions found in worlds like Wallace & Gromit, Mr. Bean and the films of Jacques Tati.
★Supporting Actress – Violet Savage★
Violet Savage is a New York City based actor, producer, and co-founder of GirlPox Productions. NYC theater credits include: Winning is Winning (Hoi Polloi / Jill @ JACK), Fefu and Her Friends (Farmhands), Family by Celine Song (Hoi Polloi / Amanda + James) galatea 2.0 (BK Art Haus / Invulnerable Nothings), Mad Forest (TFANA), & Promenade in Concert (Mabou Mines). Film: The Invisible Girl (Bohemia Media), The Philosophy of Dress (Fairform), Foxhole (Sameul Goldwyn). She is a graduate of Bard College’s Theater and Performance program. @violetsavage
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Sav, a NYC it-girl, arrives at her favorite downtown club. Inside, Taylor Young, an A-list actor spots her. Their connection is immediate, and soon Sav and her friends are invited back to his penthouse. As the night goes on, the group drifts away until it’s just Sav and Taylor. For a moment, it feels like something real.
The next morning, Taylor’s agent storms in. Taylor rushes out, and Sav is left alone, realizing the night was not a beginning — just another fleeting moment in the world she moves through.
We want this story to feel grounded and familiar: For every girl who goes home with a guy, wondering whether it was real or just the performance of intimacy. A lot can happen in one night out. But what's left the next morning, when the excitement fades and you're alone with your thoughts? Was that it? Is that all?
This film captures the rush of being seen, the imbalance beneath it, and the quiet emptiness that follows.
Tonally, this film is stylized realism. Our story takes place over the course of a single night, with our lead character, Sav, driving the narrative forward. We blend dreamy, intoxicating nightlife aesthetic with grounded, raw performances and emotion. Observational and unfiltered, the film sits at the intersection of Anora, The Bling Ring, and the chaotic naturalism of the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems and Good Time.
Our main character, Sav, is a party girl who thrives in the nightlife scene. Her connections are built on convenience, upward mobility, and self-interest. She wants to be desired by everyone but fears true vulnerability. Uncharacteristically, she allows herself to get swept up in the fantasy of her connection with Taylor. When it collapses, she's left feeling exactly what she tries to avoid: empty and disposable.
Taylor Young is a very famous actor who moves through life with effortless charm and detachment — someone used to getting whatever, and whoever, he wants without ever having to try. Taylor is tender, cold, sincere, performative, controlled and erratic. When he notices Sav, the question becomes — is it desire, boredom, or something real?
The tension is that it might be all three.
We are already half way funded and are raising the remaining funds to complete the film. We are fully in pre-production, with all of our department heads attached and a majority of our crew planning on shooting late March! This money will be used to properly pay our cast and crew and to cover essential production costs, including equipment and locations. Your donations will go directly to payment of our emerging, talented crew of creative peers. Many of us have been working together since college, growing together as artists, and this film is an extension of that shared trust and collaboration.
We will eventually be sharing this film online, but also plan to have opportunities for in-person private screenings and festivals!
If we exceed our goal, additional funds will go towards post-production costs, including sound, score, color-grading, and festival submissions. Exceeding our goal will even help us with renting a theater for a private screening in NYC for our cast, crew, and generous supporters!
CONTRIBUTE & PLEDGE
You can contribute to the making of this film by making a pledge (We need to raise at least 80% of our goal in order to keep any funds we have raised). No amount is too small, every dollar making us closer to our goal in making this film!
SPREAD THE WORD
Please share this campaign on social media - you can copy, paste:
Join me in supporting the dramatic comedy short film Is That All? You can contribute to their Seed & Spark and follow them on instagram at @isthatallfilm. Support them on @seedandspark: seedandspark.com/fund/isthatall
THANK YOU SO MUCH for reading & please follow our journey on instagram.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
WARDROBE & ART
Costs $1,000
This will cover all our costs for costumes and art department, ensuring we can build this world fully with unique costumes and props!
LOCATIONS
Costs $1,500
We need to be able to use a real NYC nightclub for this project and world to feel as real as possible!
EQUIPMENT
Costs $3,000
This gives us the ability to rent the proper lenses, camera, and lighting equipment, as well as giving us the ability to use a steadicam.
POST PRODUCTION
Costs $2,500
This will cover our sound mix, score, color-grading, and festival submissions.
PRODUCTION COSTS
Costs $2,000
Meals, coffee, snacks, van rentals! This ensures production has everything they need to support our cast & crew.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
★Director & Co-Writer – Stella Gatti★
Stella Gatti is a New York–based writer and director. Her films have screened at Cinema Village, Nitehawk Prospect Park with NoBudge Live, the New York Shorts International Film Festival, Venezia Shorts, and the Mykonos Biennale. Her work is visually striking, with particular attention to cinematography and production design. She has also worked in production design and props on commercial and editorial projects for Vanity Fair, Elle, and Town & Country. Is That All? will be her third short film. @stellagatti
★Co-Writer, Story Creator, & Lead Actress – Madeleine Fisher★
Madeleine Fisher is a NYC based actor, director and writer. Her acting has screened at NoBudge, Portugal Film Fest, Orlando Film Fest, Neighborhood Film Fest, New York No Limits Film Fest. She was awarded Best Actress at Portugal Film Fest. This is her screenwriting debut. @madeleinehillfisher
★Director of Photography – Gus Aronson★
Gus Aronson is a photographer and filmmaker based out of Chinatown, NY. Embracing ambiguous narrative and vivid color as tools to push against ideas of the document, Gus rejects the notion that photographs are purely evidence of a time past. He explores how photographs can rather function as tarot cards: relics of the past and roadmaps for the future. He has been commissioned by Aperture, the New York Times, INTERVIEW, Cultured, New York Magazine, the Cut, Elle, and Aperture Magazine, and was part of the Aperture Summer Open 2020 "Information" show at Fotografiska, NY. His Films, and those that he's shot, have premiered with the Mill Valley Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, the Hammer Museum, the Independent of Film Festival of Boston, NoBudge Live, Film Shortage, and more. He is also a founding member and the DP for filmsecession.com an online film museum launched in 2024. This is Stella and Gus’s third collaboration.
★Producer – Syd Ross★
Syd Ross is an NYC-based Creative Producer and writer whose work spans commercial, digital, and studio projects. She blends narrative thinking and creative vision with hands-on producing, and her work has been featured in WWD, USA Today, and Ad Age. She is the co-founder of aud studios, a creative strategy and production agency.
★Producer – Madeline Corley★
Madeline Corley is a producer and marketing strategist who brings ideas to life across creative and strategy teams. Her experience spans luxury commercial, cultural, and celebrity experiential work—from the Super Bowl to NYFW. Madeline has produced 3D and anamorphic spots featured in Times Square and delivered global campaigns that blend narrative and premium production value.
★Production Designer – Theo Webb★
Theo Webb is a production designer and filmmaker from New York. As a designer, he is interested in creating hyper-detailed and dynamic spaces, in which the sets become characters of their own. He draws inspiration from Macgyvered-contraptions found in worlds like Wallace & Gromit, Mr. Bean and the films of Jacques Tati.
★Supporting Actress – Violet Savage★
Violet Savage is a New York City based actor, producer, and co-founder of GirlPox Productions. NYC theater credits include: Winning is Winning (Hoi Polloi / Jill @ JACK), Fefu and Her Friends (Farmhands), Family by Celine Song (Hoi Polloi / Amanda + James) galatea 2.0 (BK Art Haus / Invulnerable Nothings), Mad Forest (TFANA), & Promenade in Concert (Mabou Mines). Film: The Invisible Girl (Bohemia Media), The Philosophy of Dress (Fairform), Foxhole (Sameul Goldwyn). She is a graduate of Bard College’s Theater and Performance program. @violetsavage