We are committed to bridging the gender gap in film by having women hold many of the key positions including Producers, Assistant Director, and Production Designer. We also commit to including other underrepresented groups in our crew as it continues to grow.

 

 

We open on a dark hotel room as a young man dyes his hair red in the mirror. We do not know his name, but he will go by Sam. Beside him hangs an aged missing poster for a red haired boy with conspicuous spectacles upon his face. The name reads Samuel Weaver.

 

Across town, in a once-lavish home, Victoria Weaver eats alone. When an unexpected knock breaks her solitude, our plot begins.

 

Only Strangers Sleep in my Bed is a perverse vision of a secluded home in a small quiet town that was scarred years before by the dissapearance of a child. When a con man works his way into the home of a lonely woman, he will soon find that he is not the only one with something to hide.

 

   Stoker, Chan-Wook Park                                     Gone Girl, David Fincher 

      

 

 

Growing up in San Francisco, I was always fascinated by the ornate Victorian homes that have dotted the landscape since the end of the 19th century. In my younger years, my father would often bring me to these aging homes as he remodeled them. The setting of Only Strangers Sleep in my Bed takes inspiration from that architecture. Enveloped in deep greens and oranges, the palette of the home is warm, earthy, and claustrophobic.

 

Stoker, Chan-Wook Park                           Soliloquy, Kazynori Nagashima  

 

Beyond the house itself, the film borrows from the theme of 20th century Americana and the archetypes within. It plays on the thief and the grieving mother as cliches to be explored and subverted.

 

We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lynne Ramsay       Circumstance, Formento & Formento

 

The cinematography will bring a feeling of voyeurism to the story with the viewer on the outside looking into two shrouded lives as they reveal themselves to one another. Clarity in the visual expression of complex information is crucial and much of the plot is based around visual motif.

 

 

 

 

Making a film on 16mm film can get pretty expensive. Even one that's twelve minutes long. Though we have already secured funding to cover much of the cost of the 16mm film stock along with its post production processing, there are many other costs that we much take into consideration if we want to bring Only Strangers Sleep in my Bed  to its fullest potential.

 

 - The single largest remaining aspect of our budget is for production design. For our film, this consists of constructed sets, costume design, props, and generally decorating the spaces. A visual story such as this is boosted by an aesthetic that fits its mood. We hope to give insight to the characters and their stories through the spaces they inhabit.

 

- The film's location of an aging Victoria home is also paramount for the structure of the plot, so we must be precise with our shooting location.

 

-  Over our collective years watching the projects of young filmmakers, it has become clear that the single most common obstacle to a project's success is the quality of the sound design. We're going to leave it to  those who are trained in it.

 

- Filmmaking is hard work and nothing good ever came out of a crew that wasn't properly rested or fed. We're not renting beds or anything like that, but we will need some food. 

 

- Since we are going to be filming on location, we need a reliable form of transportation for getting our cast and crew to and from set each day. 

 

 

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