Presley Dent
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Animation, Comedy
This series is an offbeat riff on American politics during a troubling political climate, attacking current events from a fresh angle. (Animated monster fantasy series!) It's also artistically bold and innovative, using stop-motion to get its story across.
Presley Dent
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
Animation, Comedy
1 Campaigns | California, United States
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This series is an offbeat riff on American politics during a troubling political climate, attacking current events from a fresh angle. (Animated monster fantasy series!) It's also artistically bold and innovative, using stop-motion to get its story across.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Presley Dent follows Betty and Alison, two young jingle-writers working on a presidential campaign. Their candidate, Presley Dent, is a dangerously charismatic woman who promises to restore peaceful relations between humans and monsters in an alternative universe that has gone totally off the rails.
Betty, an idealist fresh from a rural town, has little love for her new supervisor Alison, a jaded fashionista from the big city. The feeling is mutual – but the two women team up, hoping to help Presley win the presidency.
When a staff team-building expedition goes horribly awry, Betty and Alison face political fallout from a monster attack threatening human-monster relations in this politically volatile fantasy universe. It doesn’t take Betty long to learn that the world of politics is far more venomous than she ever imagined....
Presley Dent began as a stop-motion series made with Barbie Dolls, highlighting the goofy, high-schoolish mentality I saw in politics. It was the short that helped me get into CalArts – now it's making a comeback as my MFA thesis film.
I have updated Presley Dent so that the puppets and sets will be specially constructed for the film. America's current political climate helped motivate this upgrade, but this style of animation has been my passion for years; this project will allow me to combine it with my love of making people laugh.
Wishlist
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Dragonframe
Costs $295
Dragonframe is stop-motion animation software that will be crucial to the completion of the stop-motion components of the film.
Puppet Fabricator
Costs $6,000
Puppet fabricators do a lot of work and they deserve money for it!
Hard Drives
Costs $700
Films take up a lot of space. Buying several top notch hard drives will help keep the project safe!
Sets
Costs $1,000
The puppets need a place to live!
Puppet Materials
Costs $1,000
The puppet fabricators need materials to work with!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
KAT SHEA
Director/Writer/Stop-Motion Animator
I’m Kat, the writer and director of Presley Dent! I am in my second year studying at California Institute of the Arts in the Film Directing Program. I have experience in directing for both live action and animation. I recently finished shooting a live action comedy about a misguided Fairy Godmother helping her Godchild, a mother who is a recovering drug addict. I am drawn to writing stories about flawed and funny characters, especially female characters.
SINAH OBER
Producer
Sinah Ober was born in Germany’s Black Forest to a carpenter and a tailor. Her films are about personal perspective and individual experience. She is interested in childhood, femininity, sexuality, history, and trauma. Sinah graduated from the University of Iowa in 2012 with a BA in Cinema. She recently graduated with her MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her films have screened at several venues including the Student Experimental Film Festival at SUNY, the International Academic Video Festival in São Paulo, and the International Kansk Video Festival in Russia, among others.
SARA SUAREZ
Producer / Sound Designer
Sara is from Virginia, where she studied English literature at the College of William & Mary. She is currently working on her MFA in film directing at CalArts; her films study psychological borderlines, prophetic visions, and the moral responsibilities of human beings. She loves science, horror movies, medieval poetry, and living on the planet Earth.
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Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Presley Dent follows Betty and Alison, two young jingle-writers working on a presidential campaign. Their candidate, Presley Dent, is a dangerously charismatic woman who promises to restore peaceful relations between humans and monsters in an alternative universe that has gone totally off the rails.
Betty, an idealist fresh from a rural town, has little love for her new supervisor Alison, a jaded fashionista from the big city. The feeling is mutual – but the two women team up, hoping to help Presley win the presidency.
When a staff team-building expedition goes horribly awry, Betty and Alison face political fallout from a monster attack threatening human-monster relations in this politically volatile fantasy universe. It doesn’t take Betty long to learn that the world of politics is far more venomous than she ever imagined....
Presley Dent began as a stop-motion series made with Barbie Dolls, highlighting the goofy, high-schoolish mentality I saw in politics. It was the short that helped me get into CalArts – now it's making a comeback as my MFA thesis film.
I have updated Presley Dent so that the puppets and sets will be specially constructed for the film. America's current political climate helped motivate this upgrade, but this style of animation has been my passion for years; this project will allow me to combine it with my love of making people laugh.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Dragonframe
Costs $295
Dragonframe is stop-motion animation software that will be crucial to the completion of the stop-motion components of the film.
Puppet Fabricator
Costs $6,000
Puppet fabricators do a lot of work and they deserve money for it!
Hard Drives
Costs $700
Films take up a lot of space. Buying several top notch hard drives will help keep the project safe!
Sets
Costs $1,000
The puppets need a place to live!
Puppet Materials
Costs $1,000
The puppet fabricators need materials to work with!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
KAT SHEA
Director/Writer/Stop-Motion Animator
I’m Kat, the writer and director of Presley Dent! I am in my second year studying at California Institute of the Arts in the Film Directing Program. I have experience in directing for both live action and animation. I recently finished shooting a live action comedy about a misguided Fairy Godmother helping her Godchild, a mother who is a recovering drug addict. I am drawn to writing stories about flawed and funny characters, especially female characters.
SINAH OBER
Producer
Sinah Ober was born in Germany’s Black Forest to a carpenter and a tailor. Her films are about personal perspective and individual experience. She is interested in childhood, femininity, sexuality, history, and trauma. Sinah graduated from the University of Iowa in 2012 with a BA in Cinema. She recently graduated with her MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her films have screened at several venues including the Student Experimental Film Festival at SUNY, the International Academic Video Festival in São Paulo, and the International Kansk Video Festival in Russia, among others.
SARA SUAREZ
Producer / Sound Designer
Sara is from Virginia, where she studied English literature at the College of William & Mary. She is currently working on her MFA in film directing at CalArts; her films study psychological borderlines, prophetic visions, and the moral responsibilities of human beings. She loves science, horror movies, medieval poetry, and living on the planet Earth.