Ordinary

Drama, Shorts Program

Film Short

Los Angeles, California

Schizophrenia has been identified as one of the most debilitating diseases, effecting over 2 million Americans. Inspired by the overwhelming number of homeless people in LA suffering from mental illness, this film will raise awareness, humanize the disease and change how people treat those suffering

in partnership with

The Film Collaborative

The Story

About The Project

The story follows our main character Janie's struggle with her recent diagnosis of schizophrenia. We watch her journey from being medicated, feeling sad, trapped and

longing to feel like her old self to being off her medication and feeling lucid

and free.

It is important that people understand how hard it is to stay medicated and ‘safe’ in

societies terms. To ask what can we do to support those who are suffering from

schizophrenia and don’t have a support network? And most importantly why aren’t our

tax dollars being spent on our people? ‘Ordinary’ will humanize mental illness for the

general public; Janie is just a normal girl dealing with mental illness.

Kid Sister Collective’s aim is to create and produce female character driven stories that

make a difference. Their productions seek to hire mostly female teams generating more

work for women in film. Each member of the ‘Ordinary’ team has a personal connection

with mental illness and a passion for social justice filmmaking. Over the last two years

homelessness in LA jumped 12%, now more then ever do stories like ‘Ordinary’ need to

be told.

Incentives

$1

Tax Write Off

We are proud to be sponsored by The Film Collaborative, through which all contributions will be tax-deductible.

For more information check out www.thefilmcollaborative.org

$50

Shout Out

Donate $50 or more and get a shout out on all Kid Sister social media, inlcuding Strange LA!

$100

On Set

If you are in the LA area and available during our shoot dates, we would love to have you on set to see the making of the film and/or join the fun as an extra if you like being on camera!

$500

Associate Producer Credit

Ever wanted to be a producer or add an IMDB credit?! Should you donate $500 or more you will be made an official associate producer on 'Ordinary.
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Location fees

We need to rent specific locations for filming. Our locations include Janie's house, Janie's LA apartment, night club, office & house party.

$1,200 to go

costs $1,200

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Camera/Lighting/Sound

This will go towards camera rental fees and pay our director, camera operator, grip, lighting, sound and the rest of our crew.

$2,500 to go

costs $2,500

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Production Designer

The production designer creates the appropriate atmosphere for each location.

$700 to go

costs $700

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Make Up Artist

This budget will go toward paying our hari and make up artists.

$500 to go

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Craft Services Food

Days on set can last up to 12hrs. We need to feed our actors and crew!

$500 to go

costs $600

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Production Insurance

This covers camera equipment and general liability insurance.

$1,500 to go

costs $1,500

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Permits

We need permits from the city of Los Angeles to shoot in a couple of our locations.

$800 to go

costs $800

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Casting/Actors/Extras

This budget will go towards paying our actors and extras as well as casting talent.

$690 to go

costs $700

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Wardrobe Stylist

This budget will pay for the necessary wardrobe items needed to create our characters as well as pay for our stylist.

$500 to go

costs $500

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Contingency

You can never budget for rain or any mishaps that may occur once production is in motion. It's important to be prepared for the unexpected.

$1,000 to go

costs $1,000

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$1

Tax Write Off

We are proud to be sponsored by The Film Collaborative, through which all contributions will be tax-deductible.

For more information check out www.thefilmcollaborative.org

$50

Shout Out

Donate $50 or more and get a shout out on all Kid Sister social media, inlcuding Strange LA!

$100

On Set

If you are in the LA area and available during our shoot dates, we would love to have you on set to see the making of the film and/or join the fun as an extra if you like being on camera!

$500

Associate Producer Credit

Ever wanted to be a producer or add an IMDB credit?! Should you donate $500 or more you will be made an official associate producer on 'Ordinary.
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The Team

Current Team

About This Team

Kid Sister Collective is a production company formed by Alexandra Grossi and Chantelle James in 2014. We are focused on creating strong female character driven stories that make a difference. Their first project, comedic web series, 'Strange LA' premiered at LA Web fest and was nominated for awards. They just finished production on the thriller short film 'At the Edge of Night.'

http://www.kidsistercollective.com/

'Ordinary'

Writer: Chantelle James

As a writer Chantelle James is focused on both telling stories that need to be heard and making the people laugh. She has written and produced three comedic web series, 'Strange LA', 'Faymis' and 'What's With Alice'. The short film 'Ordinary', is Chantelle's debut into the world of dramatic story telling.

Director: Jeneffa Soldatic

Jeneffa Soldatic is an award-winning Australian born actress, acting coach and director who has recently been working as the on set acting coach for 'School of Rock' Paramount/Nickelodeon. She has been working internationally in theatre since 1998. As a life member of The Actor's Studio, she loves the exposing truth of the craft of acting and story telling.

Cast:

Chantelle James 'Janie'

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Chantelle James moved to Los Angeles in 2011. She has since worked on theatre, film and TV projects including awarding winning short film 'First Shift Back', and award nominated web series 'Strange LA'. She performs regularly with the all girl UCB trained improv troupe 'Between the Lips'.

http://www.chantellejames.com/

Alexandra Grossi 'Pixie'

Alexandra Grossi is an actress, producer and writer with a degree in Theatre. Co owner of Kid Sister Collective Production Company, she co created the award nominated comedic web series, 'Strange LA.' She just returned from Egypt where she played the lead in the film 'Marriage: Impossible.' She was most recently on 'The League', 'The Mindy Project and 'Lopez.'

http://www.alexandragrossi.com
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