Magpie's protagonist is a woman in her 40s. An introvert with SPS (sensory processing sensitivity) A very under and misrepresented person in films. The story entirely relies on diversity (race, age, economic status, gender, disability) The cast and crew reflect our commitment to an inclusion rider.

Magpie is a comedic feature film

about getting absolutely, awkwardly, hilariously lost...

in order to discover your true north.

 

 

 

Why this campaign is critical. We're in pre-production which means we're in the process of securing a producer, crew, cast, a casting director, locations....you get the picture. Lots to be done between now and actually shooting the film.   

 

Click here to learn more about the artists already on board!

(Michael Lang, Samuel Gardner, LaWanda Hopkins, Callie Hale, Matthew Boyce, Sammy Elmi, Justina Grayman, and Laura Ravn) 

 

Successfully raising capital here on Seed and Spark proves to investors and producers that there's a public desire for this particular film to be made.

 

What you will NOT find in Magpie...
 - Violence - Hate - Guns  -"isms" (racism, sexism, ageism, etc. )
 - Zombies (sorry, zombies, no hard feelings)

What you WILL find in Magpie...
   - A lead who is an introvert and an HSP... who is also brave, awkward, hopeful, smart, and funny.
   - Quirky, lovable, diverse characters
   - Hope
   - A LOT of laughter

   - A look at sensory overload and finding peace in a loud, frenetic world.
   - A search for an open-hearted, open-minded life.
   - The wisdom of Iroquois herbal medicine and practices.

- THE STORY -

 

How it all begins...

 

 

Maggie Morris is a successful, 40-year-old executive at The Bridge Group, a high-end PR firm in Brooklyn. She loves her life. She worked hard for it.

 

One evening, Maggie is out with her best friend, Mitchell, when she bumps into her childhood best friend, Brynne, who she hasn't seen in 27 years. They begin chatting, making up for lost time ... but Brynne finds Maggie unrecognizable in every way so she tells Maggie what she thinks of the new version of Maggie Morris. It does not go well.

 

It's that moment when you catch a glimpse of yourself through someone else's eyes and you don't like what you see. Instead of the "you" you think you are...you suddenly see some strange, awful "grown-up" person who you don't remember becoming. 

 

 

So...

 

 

To prove her old friend wrong she launches herself headlong into a rash social experiment: a sudden and drastic change in how she communicates with people.  

"This should be a piece of pie!", she thinks. (she never really liked cake).

 

But, you guessed it. There's NO pie for Maggie.

 

The dominos begin to topple....

 

 

Her experiment wreaks havoc in her professional and personal life, but, a strange thing begins to happen...the wonderful, wild imagination she had as a child returns and she starts to see and hear much more than she has in years.

 

 

Which is wonderful, and...

 

 

As you might imagine, her "experiments with non-traditional communication" unravel her once carefully constructed life in record time and she unexpectedly has no choice but to move back into her parents' house...in rural North Carolina.

 

But even after everything falls apart ...

And she's back in her childhood room sitting on her old twin bed, listening to old 10,000 Maniacs and Peter Gabriel CDs, she persists. She's compelled. It's so fascinating. It's too wonderfully, absurdly awful. It is somehow leading her back to herself. Back to the truths she knew as a child and somehow forgot along the way to becomeing an adult. 

 

Sometimes we’re compelled to make choices, and we don't know why. 

The journey’s end knows why, but we don't. 

We're not supposed to. 

It's part of the deal.

 

 

 

 

 

The essence of Magpie is…

 - The more we see human bravery and kindness, the more we bring it out in our own lives.

- The more we weave nature, reconnecting to it, and our responsibility to it into interesting, beautifully produced films, the more we're moved to engage with the natural world.
 - A belief that we need to celebrate choosing a path where the pursuit of wealth, power and popularity are not the end game.  
 - Curiosity, uncertainty, and wonder are life-changing in the most extraordinary ways. 
 - There are beautiful truths we know as children that sometimes slip through our fingers as adults.
 

 

 

 

 

 

What kinds of characters can you expect to see in Magpie?

Fun ones, my friends, fun ones...

 

                              

 

                    

                      

 

 

 

a VERY special thank you to...

SARAH NADEENE

With your incredible gifts and generosity of heart, this film found its voice.

I will be forever grateful to you. 

 

 

 

If you're interested in learning more about Magpie, becoming involved as a partner, production team member, or producer, please email: [email protected]

 

 

 

 

and, in closing a bit of whimsy, with a whole lot of truth in it....

 

Perception is everything.