Out There
Jersey City, New Jersey | Series
Comedy, Experimental
We are LOUD, PHYSICAL, and CONFUSED! The six-episode comedic web series follows the alien duo Mimi and Zora, aka. MiZo, as they pursue fame in the Greater New York City Area as performers and buskers! However, it's a long journey ahead, and the sisters learn to be thrifty in the meantime.
Out There
Jersey City, New Jersey | Series
Comedy, Experimental
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We are LOUD, PHYSICAL, and CONFUSED! The six-episode comedic web series follows the alien duo Mimi and Zora, aka. MiZo, as they pursue fame in the Greater New York City Area as performers and buskers! However, it's a long journey ahead, and the sisters learn to be thrifty in the meantime.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
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Concept
Through the alien duo known as MiZo, real life co-creators Miriam Gabriel, Zora Schiltz Rouse and Sophia de Baun satirize their lived experiences as women and artists living in the Greater New York City Area. MiZo are descendants of humans who were abducted hundreds of years ago. They have come to understand human society through various media such as YouTube and Buzzfeed. The lens of the alien allows for play with miscommunication, overt sexuality, over-the-top energy and uninhibited responses to a world that is perhaps equally as grotesque as the characters themselves!
Starting with their not-so-smooth landing on Coney Island, MiZo's journey is filled with bumps and bruises as the sisters deal with lack of funds, stalkers, and constantly getting fired! Sound familiar?
Style
Out There is not just any old show about making it in New York. Not only do MiZo stick out like sore thumbs because of their lack of social awareness and bizarre, internet-fueled behavior, but also because of how they move their bodies!
The sisters' style is a mash-up of physical comedy informed by modern dance, traditional slapstick, Commedia dell'Arte and Comédie-Française. The world is a whole new oyster to them, so they are not afraid to roll around in the (graveyard) dirt, pick cheetos off the floor, or even smell every part of the subway!
Structure
The series is comprised of six 10-15 minute episodes, each throwing MiZo in a new conundrum. We have four out of six episodes so far, but still have a lot left to do (and to pay for!)
We need your help in order to shoot the last episodes (which are going to be epic!) as well as several pickup scenes to solidify our first four episodes, and finally, for post-production. This includes editing, color correction, sound mixing, and motion graphics!
Budget
We need $8,000 in order to finish this project! Here's the breakdown.
Principal Photography
Episode 5/6
$500 - video equipment rental and insurance
$500 - breakfast/lunch/dinner for up to seven cast/crew for three days of shooting
$600 - sound person + kit rental for three days of shooting
$100 - costume, props, set design
Total for shooting episode 5/6: $1,700
Pickup Shots
$500 - video equipment rental and insurance
$300 - breakfast/lunch/dinner for up to five crew members for three days of shooting
$400 - field sound for two days of shooting
$300 - costume, props, set design (including alien spacecraft!)
Total for shooting pickups: $1,500
Combined
Total for equipment: $1,000
Total for craft services: $800
Total for sound/kit: $1,000
Total for Costume/Props/Set: $400
Total for principle photography: $3,200
Post-Production
$3,000 - six hundred for editing each episode
$1,000 - color correction/sound mix
$800 - motion graphics
Total for post-production: $4,800
Grand Total: $8,000
Thank you!
We are so grateful to everyone who has supported us along the way and any future contributors and supporters who will help us see this project to the finish line! We want to thank our core team members for dedicating so much time and effort (it's not over!), and we also want to invite other collaborators to reach out! Throughout this process, we have had others get on board as co-directors, choreographers, producers, actors, and more! We invite anyone who wants to join in on the fun to reach out!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Editor
Costs $3,000
Editing is half the battle. We need an editor to cut this beautiful footage together.
Sound Mixing
Costs $500
Sound Mixing to make this series sonically come to life.
Color Correcting
Costs $500
Color Correcting to make this series glimmer and glow!
Motion Graphic
Costs $800
This is sci-fi so we need the proper effects.
Equipment
Costs $1,000
We need to cover the cost of equipment for episode 5 and the pick ups from episode 1-4.
Field Sound
Costs $1,000
Good quality sound is very important to the success of this series.
Feeding the cast and crew
Costs $800
We offer meals and craft services on every shoot to our wonderful talent and crew.
Costumes/Props/Set Design
Costs $400
The set, costumes, and props make all the difference.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Sophia de Baun is a filmmaker with a background in writing and critical theory. She wrote and directed her first short film, Sisters, in 2015, which premiered at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival the following year. In 2017, she wrote and produced her first feature, Scenes From a Breakup, which screened at festivals such as the Covellite International Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives as part of NewFilmmakers NY as well as others. Works in progress include a comedy web series, Out There, with co-creators Zora Schiltz Rouse and Miriam Gabriel, and Ebb Tide, a political documentary about the Seychelles, uncovering the horrors of a regime that has ruled the nation for over forty years. She is also currently working as a camera operator on multiple documentary projects for Saboteur Media.
She graduated in 2014 from the Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program with B.A.s in English and Women's and Gender Studies. She was one of four Paul Robeson Scholars who received the Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for an outstanding thesis.
Kerime Konur started her training as a dancer at The Loudoun School of Ballet, in Leesburg, Virginia under the direction of Maureen Miller, Sharon Mercke, and Lisa Startsman. She received training from the Ailey School in the Independent Study Program to then received her certificate in dance from the Peridance Capezio Dance Center under the direction of Igal Perry and Marlena Wolfe in the Certificate Dance Program. She is also a Wolfe Project Scholarship recipient.
She has performed the works of Robert Battle, Jessica Castro, Charissa Barton, Sidra Bell, Igal Perry, Cindy Salgato, Bryan Arias, Pascal Rekoert, Kevan Allen, Amy J. Gardner, Manuel Vignoulle, Enzo Celli, Marlena Wolfe, and Jesse Zaritt. She has also performed for GMA: Live, the Dr.Oz Show, Revlon, Nike, MTV, NYFW, Postmodern Jukeboxx, Baby Yors, Brugal Rum, BIOglitz, Douglas Elliman Real Estate, and as a guest artist for XAOC Contemporary Ballet and IKADA Contemporary Ballet Company. She has toured with AATMA and Mystic India: The World Tour under direction of Amit Shah, and assisted Sidra Bell of Sidra Bell Dance New York for several seasons .
Kerime also works in videography and editorial work as house videographer for SANCHEZ KANE NYFW, production manager and videography/editorials for SBDNY, collaborator and assistant Videographer and Photographer for Cesar Brodderman Photography and assistant movement coach for Jenna Kyle’s TELL ME music video. She is currently a movement director and co-director for MiZo Productions collaborates with Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts. She has done background work on HBO’s The Deuce, Succession, The Code, The Marvelous Ms.Maisel and does stand-in/background for Love & HipHop.
Zora Schiltz Rouse is a recent graduate of King’s College London. Her dissertation examined the conception of Black American theatre and its development in the 20th century, focusing on the dramaturgical work of White American playwrights and their failure to accurately script the Black American experience. The paper built on her previous engagement in theatre and performance while living in New York City.
Zora freelances as a coordinator in branded entertainment, having worked at Conde Nast, Imaginary Forces, and on three award winning short films. She has also styled for a variety of commercial and fashion brands.
As a classically trained violinist, Zora continues to explore the ritual landscape of performance in historical context and how we can reconfigure and adapt classical music to our risk prone world.
Miriam Gabriel is a performer and creator involved in live performance and film. She was born in Baltimore, MD, raised in Princeton, NJ, and is a graduate of Rutgers University. As a choreographer, she has collaborated with Carlo Antonio Villanueva (2014-2018). Their work was presented at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Invocation Proclamation Manifesto at Gibney Dance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Cathy Weis' Sundays on Broadway, FABxAUNTS at WOW Café Theatre, the Jack Crystal Theater at NYU, Rutgers University, and the Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Their work has received support from a NYU Tisch Summer Dance Residency, a creative and teaching residency at Stony Brook University’s Center for Dance, Movement, and Somatic Learning, as well as from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Past projects also include working with the Stephen Petronio Company, Merce Cunningham Trust and performing for GREYZONE, Zultari Gomez, Lisa Fagan, Sarah Lifson and Kayla Farrish.
Miriam is currently involved in dance projects with Kyle Marshall Choreography (Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave, 2019), Maya Lee-Parritz (The Shed Open Call, 2019), and Stephanie Acosta (The Chocolate Factory, 2020 season). She was cast in a feature film, "Scenes from a Breakup", that was screened at film festivals in 2018 and 2019, including the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, the Covellite International Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives as part of NewFilmmakers NY. She has also appeared in other works such as the short film, "Squeezed", by Dan Rosen, and Gus Dapperton's music video, “Prune, You Talk Funny”.
Tatiana Fenner, New York City born and bred, is a producer and yogi. Growing up as a dancer and actor, she later realized she had a hunger for what goes into making something happen. Studying Theatre Management at Syracuse University, she’s recently transitioned from performer to producer, and currently works as a Studio Assistant at Milk Studios in New York City. She enjoys all things adventurous and quirky.
Tatiana has recently produced a short documentary focusing on the divide of marginalized people who exist in wellness spaces called “The People Of Climbing,” which has recently been screened with Sidewalk Film Festival. She also resides on the programming committee for The Lower East Side Film Festival, getting the chance to screen several hundred films from upcoming artist from around the world. As she works on current projects, she balances out her days on set as a yoga instructor.
Carlos Cardona is a multifaceted filmmaker with over a decade of experience producing, shooting, and editing documentary, narrative, commercial, music video, and branded content. He directed his first feature, "Second Chance", released in 2016, and his second, "Scenes From a Breakup" in 2018.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Concept
Through the alien duo known as MiZo, real life co-creators Miriam Gabriel, Zora Schiltz Rouse and Sophia de Baun satirize their lived experiences as women and artists living in the Greater New York City Area. MiZo are descendants of humans who were abducted hundreds of years ago. They have come to understand human society through various media such as YouTube and Buzzfeed. The lens of the alien allows for play with miscommunication, overt sexuality, over-the-top energy and uninhibited responses to a world that is perhaps equally as grotesque as the characters themselves!
Starting with their not-so-smooth landing on Coney Island, MiZo's journey is filled with bumps and bruises as the sisters deal with lack of funds, stalkers, and constantly getting fired! Sound familiar?
Style
Out There is not just any old show about making it in New York. Not only do MiZo stick out like sore thumbs because of their lack of social awareness and bizarre, internet-fueled behavior, but also because of how they move their bodies!
The sisters' style is a mash-up of physical comedy informed by modern dance, traditional slapstick, Commedia dell'Arte and Comédie-Française. The world is a whole new oyster to them, so they are not afraid to roll around in the (graveyard) dirt, pick cheetos off the floor, or even smell every part of the subway!
Structure
The series is comprised of six 10-15 minute episodes, each throwing MiZo in a new conundrum. We have four out of six episodes so far, but still have a lot left to do (and to pay for!)
We need your help in order to shoot the last episodes (which are going to be epic!) as well as several pickup scenes to solidify our first four episodes, and finally, for post-production. This includes editing, color correction, sound mixing, and motion graphics!
Budget
We need $8,000 in order to finish this project! Here's the breakdown.
Principal Photography
Episode 5/6
$500 - video equipment rental and insurance
$500 - breakfast/lunch/dinner for up to seven cast/crew for three days of shooting
$600 - sound person + kit rental for three days of shooting
$100 - costume, props, set design
Total for shooting episode 5/6: $1,700
Pickup Shots
$500 - video equipment rental and insurance
$300 - breakfast/lunch/dinner for up to five crew members for three days of shooting
$400 - field sound for two days of shooting
$300 - costume, props, set design (including alien spacecraft!)
Total for shooting pickups: $1,500
Combined
Total for equipment: $1,000
Total for craft services: $800
Total for sound/kit: $1,000
Total for Costume/Props/Set: $400
Total for principle photography: $3,200
Post-Production
$3,000 - six hundred for editing each episode
$1,000 - color correction/sound mix
$800 - motion graphics
Total for post-production: $4,800
Grand Total: $8,000
Thank you!
We are so grateful to everyone who has supported us along the way and any future contributors and supporters who will help us see this project to the finish line! We want to thank our core team members for dedicating so much time and effort (it's not over!), and we also want to invite other collaborators to reach out! Throughout this process, we have had others get on board as co-directors, choreographers, producers, actors, and more! We invite anyone who wants to join in on the fun to reach out!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Editor
Costs $3,000
Editing is half the battle. We need an editor to cut this beautiful footage together.
Sound Mixing
Costs $500
Sound Mixing to make this series sonically come to life.
Color Correcting
Costs $500
Color Correcting to make this series glimmer and glow!
Motion Graphic
Costs $800
This is sci-fi so we need the proper effects.
Equipment
Costs $1,000
We need to cover the cost of equipment for episode 5 and the pick ups from episode 1-4.
Field Sound
Costs $1,000
Good quality sound is very important to the success of this series.
Feeding the cast and crew
Costs $800
We offer meals and craft services on every shoot to our wonderful talent and crew.
Costumes/Props/Set Design
Costs $400
The set, costumes, and props make all the difference.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Sophia de Baun is a filmmaker with a background in writing and critical theory. She wrote and directed her first short film, Sisters, in 2015, which premiered at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival the following year. In 2017, she wrote and produced her first feature, Scenes From a Breakup, which screened at festivals such as the Covellite International Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives as part of NewFilmmakers NY as well as others. Works in progress include a comedy web series, Out There, with co-creators Zora Schiltz Rouse and Miriam Gabriel, and Ebb Tide, a political documentary about the Seychelles, uncovering the horrors of a regime that has ruled the nation for over forty years. She is also currently working as a camera operator on multiple documentary projects for Saboteur Media.
She graduated in 2014 from the Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program with B.A.s in English and Women's and Gender Studies. She was one of four Paul Robeson Scholars who received the Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for an outstanding thesis.
Kerime Konur started her training as a dancer at The Loudoun School of Ballet, in Leesburg, Virginia under the direction of Maureen Miller, Sharon Mercke, and Lisa Startsman. She received training from the Ailey School in the Independent Study Program to then received her certificate in dance from the Peridance Capezio Dance Center under the direction of Igal Perry and Marlena Wolfe in the Certificate Dance Program. She is also a Wolfe Project Scholarship recipient.
She has performed the works of Robert Battle, Jessica Castro, Charissa Barton, Sidra Bell, Igal Perry, Cindy Salgato, Bryan Arias, Pascal Rekoert, Kevan Allen, Amy J. Gardner, Manuel Vignoulle, Enzo Celli, Marlena Wolfe, and Jesse Zaritt. She has also performed for GMA: Live, the Dr.Oz Show, Revlon, Nike, MTV, NYFW, Postmodern Jukeboxx, Baby Yors, Brugal Rum, BIOglitz, Douglas Elliman Real Estate, and as a guest artist for XAOC Contemporary Ballet and IKADA Contemporary Ballet Company. She has toured with AATMA and Mystic India: The World Tour under direction of Amit Shah, and assisted Sidra Bell of Sidra Bell Dance New York for several seasons .
Kerime also works in videography and editorial work as house videographer for SANCHEZ KANE NYFW, production manager and videography/editorials for SBDNY, collaborator and assistant Videographer and Photographer for Cesar Brodderman Photography and assistant movement coach for Jenna Kyle’s TELL ME music video. She is currently a movement director and co-director for MiZo Productions collaborates with Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts. She has done background work on HBO’s The Deuce, Succession, The Code, The Marvelous Ms.Maisel and does stand-in/background for Love & HipHop.
Zora Schiltz Rouse is a recent graduate of King’s College London. Her dissertation examined the conception of Black American theatre and its development in the 20th century, focusing on the dramaturgical work of White American playwrights and their failure to accurately script the Black American experience. The paper built on her previous engagement in theatre and performance while living in New York City.
Zora freelances as a coordinator in branded entertainment, having worked at Conde Nast, Imaginary Forces, and on three award winning short films. She has also styled for a variety of commercial and fashion brands.
As a classically trained violinist, Zora continues to explore the ritual landscape of performance in historical context and how we can reconfigure and adapt classical music to our risk prone world.
Miriam Gabriel is a performer and creator involved in live performance and film. She was born in Baltimore, MD, raised in Princeton, NJ, and is a graduate of Rutgers University. As a choreographer, she has collaborated with Carlo Antonio Villanueva (2014-2018). Their work was presented at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Invocation Proclamation Manifesto at Gibney Dance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Cathy Weis' Sundays on Broadway, FABxAUNTS at WOW Café Theatre, the Jack Crystal Theater at NYU, Rutgers University, and the Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Their work has received support from a NYU Tisch Summer Dance Residency, a creative and teaching residency at Stony Brook University’s Center for Dance, Movement, and Somatic Learning, as well as from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Past projects also include working with the Stephen Petronio Company, Merce Cunningham Trust and performing for GREYZONE, Zultari Gomez, Lisa Fagan, Sarah Lifson and Kayla Farrish.
Miriam is currently involved in dance projects with Kyle Marshall Choreography (Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave, 2019), Maya Lee-Parritz (The Shed Open Call, 2019), and Stephanie Acosta (The Chocolate Factory, 2020 season). She was cast in a feature film, "Scenes from a Breakup", that was screened at film festivals in 2018 and 2019, including the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, the Covellite International Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives as part of NewFilmmakers NY. She has also appeared in other works such as the short film, "Squeezed", by Dan Rosen, and Gus Dapperton's music video, “Prune, You Talk Funny”.
Tatiana Fenner, New York City born and bred, is a producer and yogi. Growing up as a dancer and actor, she later realized she had a hunger for what goes into making something happen. Studying Theatre Management at Syracuse University, she’s recently transitioned from performer to producer, and currently works as a Studio Assistant at Milk Studios in New York City. She enjoys all things adventurous and quirky.
Tatiana has recently produced a short documentary focusing on the divide of marginalized people who exist in wellness spaces called “The People Of Climbing,” which has recently been screened with Sidewalk Film Festival. She also resides on the programming committee for The Lower East Side Film Festival, getting the chance to screen several hundred films from upcoming artist from around the world. As she works on current projects, she balances out her days on set as a yoga instructor.
Carlos Cardona is a multifaceted filmmaker with over a decade of experience producing, shooting, and editing documentary, narrative, commercial, music video, and branded content. He directed his first feature, "Second Chance", released in 2016, and his second, "Scenes From a Breakup" in 2018.