Like Me, Like Everyone
Chicago, Illinois | Film Short
Drama
Like Me, Like Everyone aims to peel back the suburban layer of perfection that so many families hide behind and show how the examples our parents set for us growing up go on to affect our relationships into adulthood.
Like Me, Like Everyone
Chicago, Illinois | Film Short
Drama
1 Campaigns | Illinois, United States
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Like Me, Like Everyone aims to peel back the suburban layer of perfection that so many families hide behind and show how the examples our parents set for us growing up go on to affect our relationships into adulthood.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Like Me, Like Everyone is a simple story about a girl who is forced to humanize her parents after discovering her mother has made peace with her father’s affair. Camille, 21, learns that she cannot let her happiness or actions be dependent on the people around her, even if they are those that she loves the most.
Like Me, Like Everyone follows Camille Schaffer, who is taken out on her birthday to her favorite restaurant by her boyfriend, Sam, for dinner. At the restaurant, Camille spots her father, Hugh, with another woman.
The following day, Camille attempts to confront her mother with the news, and instead of the reaction she was expecting, her mother tells her to keep quiet to maintain peace in the family. Camille proceeds to spiral, recognizing the same patterns in her relationship with Sam, and attempts to break the cycle by going against her mother’s wishes and exposing her father.
As a writer and filmmaker, I’ve always been drawn to stories that were stripped down and filled with raw, authentic dialogue and emotion because those are the stories that I feel have shaped me. These were the stories that provided me with a place of comfort and understanding, even when I didn’t find that in the reality of my situation. Stories of family conflict, heartbreak, love, and self-discovery.
We all know that relationships are complex, especially those with the people that raised us. We set them to a higher standard than the rest of the people in our lives, almost stripping them of their humanity; we allow very little room for their mistakes and the establishment or creation of a mutual understanding.
The most difficult part of any parent/child dynamic is stepping outside of one’s perceived understanding of each other and recognizing that, on both ends, we are real people with desires, traumas, interests, and fears. That we are not just someone’s mother or someone’s daughter.
Being a black, female, queer writer and director will be a difficult path; however, being granted the opportunity to work alongside such a talented cast and crew is driving me to make this project the very best that it can be, with your help!
The funding for this project will go to everything from
- purchasing and altering costumes
- hair and makeup
- covering location rentals
- production design/set dressing
- covering equipment rental
- providing craft services to feed our hard-working team
- post production coloring software
- covering festival submission fees
We’re extending our hand to widen this film’s community through monetary aid. The film community thrives on giving back. We ask for your help right now to make movies so, in the future, we can help the next group of budding filmmakers.
We've all done a lot of growing over the past year. We watched necessities, politics, art, and human connection develop and change in the face of national hardship. As we cautiously re-enter the normalities of everyday life, we are coming at it with new eyes and a fresh perspective. The Like Me, Like Everyone cast and crew are preparing to enter a changing film and performance industry to ensure that the hard work, dedication, change, and love spread over the past year not only stay in the industry but become the industry.
Change starts from the ground up and we're standing with both feet on the ground. Like Me, Like Everyone has filming dates set for early June, and after we're looking forward to submitting to film festivals everywhere from The Chicago Feminist Film Festival and the Los Angeles International Student Film Festival to The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival and the Black Women Film Network (Short Film Competition).
If we surpass our goal, the remaining funds will be used to compensate our cast and crew for all of the time and effort put into the production of our film.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cinematography
Costs $1,370
A film isn't a film without its visuals. Money will go towards purchasing our Camera Equipment!
Costumes
Costs $1,200
Help us bring our Characters to life through authentic makeup and wardrobe :)
Craft Services
Costs $500
Crew's gotta eat!
Sound Equipment
Costs $500
Help us get Clear, Crisp sound quality .
Production Design
Costs $1,500
This will go towards all of our set dressing, furniture we use to create the Schaffer Residence.
Location
Costs $1,500
Help us secure our locations: Restaurant, home, vehicle.
Festival Fee Submissions
Costs $500
Festival fee's can get pricey, Help us take this film all the way :)
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Mya Lyman - Producer
Mya Lyman is a filmmaker from Northern California, attending film school in Chicago through Columbia’s filmmaking program with graduation set for Fall 2021. She loves film for its capacity to inspire action, insight self-reflection, educate, and creation of multiculturalism through entertainment. She's worked within the Northern California film industry in Live Television and documentary. She is thrilled to be working with this set of amazing artists and creators for Like Me, Like Everyone to share a story of coming of age, coming to terms with your parents, and coming together for representation and diversity.
Kate Kerpan - Producer
Kate Kerpan is a producer, writer, as well as dancer from the Chicago area. She is receiving her BA in film at Columbia College Chicago. Her passion for artistic mediums is what fuels her everyday endeavors. She looks forward to working with this incredible cast and crew.
Kelso Antoine - Director, Writer, Producer
Kelso Antoine is an African American writer and director from Miami, Florida. She is currently receiving her BA in filmmaking at Columbia college Chicago and intends to graduate in the spring of 2023. Her artistic focus is normalizing the representation of black and queer characters in the media through stories focused on topics outside of struggle and hardship.
Michael Stone - Editor
Michael Stone is currently a Cinematography Major at Columbia, but loves all aspects of filmmaking. Editing and Cinematography are amongst his top passions. He has been producing low budget short films, skits, and a web series for the past five years and loves being creative and collaborating with others.
Hailey Springer - Costume Design
Hailey Springer is a costume designer and student at Columbia College Chicago. Most of her experience lies in theater, but she has an interest in working in film and television as well. Her work aims to further express the characters and story through clothing.
Matilda Plaza - Director of Photography
Matilda Plaza is a Chilean-American cinematographer who has aspired to tell stories through the universal language of visuals her whole life. Art has played a huge role in her up-brining; growing up in New Orleans surrounded by creatives and living amongst her the creations of her artist-father throughout her home. Her ultimate goal in her career is to bring life to the stories and voices that haven’t been told and heard enough throughout the history of film and television.
Louise Bean - Art Director
Louise Bean is a sophomore Production Design BFA with a particular affinity for puppetry, pre-production, and wardrobe. Bean has provided the wardrobe for Columbia College Chicago films such as Dead Man's Hand (2019) and Eruption (2019) as well as storyboarding for Room Rodeo (2020). Bean has also directed and designed independent films such as Bird (2020) and Madwoman (2019), winner of "Best Picture" and "Best Production Design" at Films on a Shoestring Festival 2019 and featured at Lyric Cinema Local Filmmakers Showcase 2019.
Alex Kropp - Production Designer
Alex Kropp is a production designer and screenwriter at Columbia College Chicago. They have been working on production design for student films. They love the ability of film to inform life experience. They have decided to work on Like Me, Like Everyone to display a perfect family that has a big secret.
Adelaide Wilson - Costume/Production Design
Adelaide Wilson is a filmmaker, photographer, and vintage fashion enthusiast based out of Chicago, Illinois. She has worked on freelance film and music video work and is assisting with costuming and production design for Like Me, Like Everyone.
Phoebe J. Yung - Assistant Director
Phoebe J Yung is a freshman at Columbia College Chicago pursuing her B.A. in film and television with a concentration in directing. Her interests lie within creative development and international film sales and distribution; she has interned with companies such as RATHAUS Films, Empirical Evidence, and Endeavor Content at the 2020 European Film Market in Berlin, Germany.
Teddy DeMask - Assistant Camera
Teddy DeMask is a 22 year old Director, Cinematographer and Editor from Batavia Illinois. He works on a wide range of projects including films, music videos, live music coverage, promotional content and more.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Like Me, Like Everyone is a simple story about a girl who is forced to humanize her parents after discovering her mother has made peace with her father’s affair. Camille, 21, learns that she cannot let her happiness or actions be dependent on the people around her, even if they are those that she loves the most.
Like Me, Like Everyone follows Camille Schaffer, who is taken out on her birthday to her favorite restaurant by her boyfriend, Sam, for dinner. At the restaurant, Camille spots her father, Hugh, with another woman.
The following day, Camille attempts to confront her mother with the news, and instead of the reaction she was expecting, her mother tells her to keep quiet to maintain peace in the family. Camille proceeds to spiral, recognizing the same patterns in her relationship with Sam, and attempts to break the cycle by going against her mother’s wishes and exposing her father.
As a writer and filmmaker, I’ve always been drawn to stories that were stripped down and filled with raw, authentic dialogue and emotion because those are the stories that I feel have shaped me. These were the stories that provided me with a place of comfort and understanding, even when I didn’t find that in the reality of my situation. Stories of family conflict, heartbreak, love, and self-discovery.
We all know that relationships are complex, especially those with the people that raised us. We set them to a higher standard than the rest of the people in our lives, almost stripping them of their humanity; we allow very little room for their mistakes and the establishment or creation of a mutual understanding.
The most difficult part of any parent/child dynamic is stepping outside of one’s perceived understanding of each other and recognizing that, on both ends, we are real people with desires, traumas, interests, and fears. That we are not just someone’s mother or someone’s daughter.
Being a black, female, queer writer and director will be a difficult path; however, being granted the opportunity to work alongside such a talented cast and crew is driving me to make this project the very best that it can be, with your help!
The funding for this project will go to everything from
- purchasing and altering costumes
- hair and makeup
- covering location rentals
- production design/set dressing
- covering equipment rental
- providing craft services to feed our hard-working team
- post production coloring software
- covering festival submission fees
We’re extending our hand to widen this film’s community through monetary aid. The film community thrives on giving back. We ask for your help right now to make movies so, in the future, we can help the next group of budding filmmakers.
We've all done a lot of growing over the past year. We watched necessities, politics, art, and human connection develop and change in the face of national hardship. As we cautiously re-enter the normalities of everyday life, we are coming at it with new eyes and a fresh perspective. The Like Me, Like Everyone cast and crew are preparing to enter a changing film and performance industry to ensure that the hard work, dedication, change, and love spread over the past year not only stay in the industry but become the industry.
Change starts from the ground up and we're standing with both feet on the ground. Like Me, Like Everyone has filming dates set for early June, and after we're looking forward to submitting to film festivals everywhere from The Chicago Feminist Film Festival and the Los Angeles International Student Film Festival to The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival and the Black Women Film Network (Short Film Competition).
If we surpass our goal, the remaining funds will be used to compensate our cast and crew for all of the time and effort put into the production of our film.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cinematography
Costs $1,370
A film isn't a film without its visuals. Money will go towards purchasing our Camera Equipment!
Costumes
Costs $1,200
Help us bring our Characters to life through authentic makeup and wardrobe :)
Craft Services
Costs $500
Crew's gotta eat!
Sound Equipment
Costs $500
Help us get Clear, Crisp sound quality .
Production Design
Costs $1,500
This will go towards all of our set dressing, furniture we use to create the Schaffer Residence.
Location
Costs $1,500
Help us secure our locations: Restaurant, home, vehicle.
Festival Fee Submissions
Costs $500
Festival fee's can get pricey, Help us take this film all the way :)
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Mya Lyman - Producer
Mya Lyman is a filmmaker from Northern California, attending film school in Chicago through Columbia’s filmmaking program with graduation set for Fall 2021. She loves film for its capacity to inspire action, insight self-reflection, educate, and creation of multiculturalism through entertainment. She's worked within the Northern California film industry in Live Television and documentary. She is thrilled to be working with this set of amazing artists and creators for Like Me, Like Everyone to share a story of coming of age, coming to terms with your parents, and coming together for representation and diversity.
Kate Kerpan - Producer
Kate Kerpan is a producer, writer, as well as dancer from the Chicago area. She is receiving her BA in film at Columbia College Chicago. Her passion for artistic mediums is what fuels her everyday endeavors. She looks forward to working with this incredible cast and crew.
Kelso Antoine - Director, Writer, Producer
Kelso Antoine is an African American writer and director from Miami, Florida. She is currently receiving her BA in filmmaking at Columbia college Chicago and intends to graduate in the spring of 2023. Her artistic focus is normalizing the representation of black and queer characters in the media through stories focused on topics outside of struggle and hardship.
Michael Stone - Editor
Michael Stone is currently a Cinematography Major at Columbia, but loves all aspects of filmmaking. Editing and Cinematography are amongst his top passions. He has been producing low budget short films, skits, and a web series for the past five years and loves being creative and collaborating with others.
Hailey Springer - Costume Design
Hailey Springer is a costume designer and student at Columbia College Chicago. Most of her experience lies in theater, but she has an interest in working in film and television as well. Her work aims to further express the characters and story through clothing.
Matilda Plaza - Director of Photography
Matilda Plaza is a Chilean-American cinematographer who has aspired to tell stories through the universal language of visuals her whole life. Art has played a huge role in her up-brining; growing up in New Orleans surrounded by creatives and living amongst her the creations of her artist-father throughout her home. Her ultimate goal in her career is to bring life to the stories and voices that haven’t been told and heard enough throughout the history of film and television.
Louise Bean - Art Director
Louise Bean is a sophomore Production Design BFA with a particular affinity for puppetry, pre-production, and wardrobe. Bean has provided the wardrobe for Columbia College Chicago films such as Dead Man's Hand (2019) and Eruption (2019) as well as storyboarding for Room Rodeo (2020). Bean has also directed and designed independent films such as Bird (2020) and Madwoman (2019), winner of "Best Picture" and "Best Production Design" at Films on a Shoestring Festival 2019 and featured at Lyric Cinema Local Filmmakers Showcase 2019.
Alex Kropp - Production Designer
Alex Kropp is a production designer and screenwriter at Columbia College Chicago. They have been working on production design for student films. They love the ability of film to inform life experience. They have decided to work on Like Me, Like Everyone to display a perfect family that has a big secret.
Adelaide Wilson - Costume/Production Design
Adelaide Wilson is a filmmaker, photographer, and vintage fashion enthusiast based out of Chicago, Illinois. She has worked on freelance film and music video work and is assisting with costuming and production design for Like Me, Like Everyone.
Phoebe J. Yung - Assistant Director
Phoebe J Yung is a freshman at Columbia College Chicago pursuing her B.A. in film and television with a concentration in directing. Her interests lie within creative development and international film sales and distribution; she has interned with companies such as RATHAUS Films, Empirical Evidence, and Endeavor Content at the 2020 European Film Market in Berlin, Germany.
Teddy DeMask - Assistant Camera
Teddy DeMask is a 22 year old Director, Cinematographer and Editor from Batavia Illinois. He works on a wide range of projects including films, music videos, live music coverage, promotional content and more.