An exploration of the complex and confusing nuances of gender, consent, and family, "Relations" explores the fallout, years later, from a sexual encounter that leaves both parties involved feeling victimized. (Teaser starring Dana Koops and Julian Najera)
An exploration of the complex and confusing nuances of gender, consent, and family, "Relations" explores the fallout, years later, from a sexual encounter that leaves both parties involved feeling victimized. (Teaser starring Dana Koops and Julian Najera)
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I'm a female writer/director collaborating with two female producers on a short about a very flawed and idiosyncratic female protagonist. My interests as a filmmaker lie in the difficult and uncomfortable dilemmas that arise from our collective confusion about sex and gender, and other big issues.About The Project
Candace is on a mission to speak to her cousin Jesse’s fiancée Alix at their engagement party in the ballroom of hotel. Fighting her way past her mother and through her extended family, she is finally able to deliver a note to Alix requesting a meeting in the hallway. Before Candace gets a chance to talk to Alix, Jesse comes out the ballroom doors pushing their elderly Grandma Jean in a wheelchair. After Candace reluctantly accompanies Jesse as he puts Jean to bed, the cousins make their way downstairs in the elevator. Jesse confronts Candace, pressing her about what she intends to speak to Alix about. Candace confesses that she is planning to tell Alix about a sexual encounter she and Jesse shared when they were teenagers. In talking to Jesse about it, Candace begins to understand her memory differently.
Relations is a film about the complexities of family, sexuality, consent, and memory. Is it possible that two young people could find themselves in a sexual encounter to which neither felt like they had truly consented? How would that effect them years later? How would their ability to talk about it be constrained by being members of the same extended family?
Our teaser video is a kind of prequel to Relations.
Incentives
$10
Social Media Shout Out
Claimed: 7 of 2000
$20
Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
We'll thank you in the credits of Relations!
Claimed: 86 of 1000
$50
King Drippa Pin + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
These pins from King Drippa add class to your denim jacket
Claimed: 33 of 100
$75
Poetry Portrait + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
Gemma Cooper-Novack, award-winning poet and author of poetry collection We Might As Well Be Underwater, will write you a poetry portrait. You'll just email us two photographs and a mood descriptor (melancholic, joyful, wry, etc.) and we'll send you a PDF of your personalized poem titled with your first name.
Claimed: 6 of 15
$100
Glooby Portrait + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
If you haven't seen the music video for MGMT's When You Die that Hallie directed with Mike Burakoff, check it out. That visual effect that you see is a AI visual transfer technology called Glooby that was tamed by Burakoff and Jamie Dutcher at King Drippa. Get a short video of yourself Gloobied for a small contribution! You'll send us a short (under :5, no sound) video of yourself or your loved one, and we will Glooby it and send it back to you.
Claimed: 10 of 15
$175
Session with Audition Coach Ellen Novack + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
A lecturer at Yale School of Drama, and The Juilliard School, Ellen Novack is an acclaimed acting and audition coach, whose book Taming the Cyclops is being published this fall. Get a free session with Ellen in exchange for your support of $175 or more.
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$500
Portrait Photography Session with Steven Breckon + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
Our Director of Photography Steven Breckon is also an accomplished still photographer. Give $500 or more, and win a free 1.5 hour portrait session with Steven Breckon in your home.(Available in Los Angeles only.)
Claimed: 1 of 3
$1,000
Ashley May Charcoal Portrait + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
Artist Ashley May will create 26 x 20 inch charcoal (black-and-white) portrait based on a photograph. She will consult with you on your choice of photograph.
May's exhibition include: International Print Center, New York; Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles; the Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside CA; the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock TX; The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA; The New York Art Book Fair at PS1; The Los Angeles Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA; The Shandaken Project, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY; and the Perfect Wave Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
Claimed: 0 of 2
$5,000
Executive Producer Credit (& all the benefits that entails!)
We'd love to have you involved in Relations as an Executive Producer. If you come onboard in this role, we'll actively keep you apprised on the film's status through preproduction, production and post, and you'll be invited to join us on set for one of the shoot days. You'll be included in preview screenings of Relations. and when it is included in film festivals, you'll be invited to join us there as well.
Claimed: 0 of 4
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$10
Social Media Shout Out
Claimed: 7 of 2000
$20
Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
We'll thank you in the credits of Relations!
Claimed: 86 of 1000
$50
King Drippa Pin + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
These pins from King Drippa add class to your denim jacket
Claimed: 33 of 100
$75
Poetry Portrait + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
Gemma Cooper-Novack, award-winning poet and author of poetry collection We Might As Well Be Underwater, will write you a poetry portrait. You'll just email us two photographs and a mood descriptor (melancholic, joyful, wry, etc.) and we'll send you a PDF of your personalized poem titled with your first name.
Claimed: 6 of 15
$100
Glooby Portrait + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
If you haven't seen the music video for MGMT's When You Die that Hallie directed with Mike Burakoff, check it out. That visual effect that you see is a AI visual transfer technology called Glooby that was tamed by Burakoff and Jamie Dutcher at King Drippa. Get a short video of yourself Gloobied for a small contribution! You'll send us a short (under :5, no sound) video of yourself or your loved one, and we will Glooby it and send it back to you.
Claimed: 10 of 15
$175
Session with Audition Coach Ellen Novack + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
A lecturer at Yale School of Drama, and The Juilliard School, Ellen Novack is an acclaimed acting and audition coach, whose book Taming the Cyclops is being published this fall. Get a free session with Ellen in exchange for your support of $175 or more.
Sold Out!
$500
Portrait Photography Session with Steven Breckon + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
Our Director of Photography Steven Breckon is also an accomplished still photographer. Give $500 or more, and win a free 1.5 hour portrait session with Steven Breckon in your home.(Available in Los Angeles only.)
Claimed: 1 of 3
$1,000
Ashley May Charcoal Portrait + Thanks in the Credits + Social Media Shout Out + Digital Link to the Finished Film
Artist Ashley May will create 26 x 20 inch charcoal (black-and-white) portrait based on a photograph. She will consult with you on your choice of photograph.
May's exhibition include: International Print Center, New York; Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles; the Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside CA; the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock TX; The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA; The New York Art Book Fair at PS1; The Los Angeles Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA; The Shandaken Project, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY; and the Perfect Wave Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
Claimed: 0 of 2
$5,000
Executive Producer Credit (& all the benefits that entails!)
We'd love to have you involved in Relations as an Executive Producer. If you come onboard in this role, we'll actively keep you apprised on the film's status through preproduction, production and post, and you'll be invited to join us on set for one of the shoot days. You'll be included in preview screenings of Relations. and when it is included in film festivals, you'll be invited to join us there as well.
Claimed: 0 of 4
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About This Team
Hallie Cooper-Novack (Director) is an LA-based filmmaker who was born and bred in New York City. Hallie recently directed the music video for MGMT's When You Die with Mike Burakoff. The video stars Alex Karpovsky, and premiered on The New Yorker. Her previous short, Jagoo, stars Greta Gerwig and Ana Kayne and showed in the Manhattan Film Festival. She is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and Wesleyan University.
Lucia Pier (Producer) works in film, television, and commercials. After several years in film festival operations, she seamlessly made the move into production in 2013. Since then, her work has included narrative features and series for HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and ABC; documentary projects for Netflix and Runaway Films; commercials for clients such as Apple, Ford, the NBA, and HBO; and short films and music videos, most recently the MGMT video When You Die. That music video was her first collaboration with Hallie Cooper-Novack. She's thrilled to be embarking with Hallie on this new and timely project.
Cemile Turam (Producer) attributes her affinity toward challenging, stylized subjects that inspire community to working under Herzog before completing her MFA in Producing from the American Film Institute. Despite this focus, nothing stops her from choosing a project based on the collaborators involved. Her feature film, 3 WORDS, starring Jaimie King, Andy Dick, Tobin Bell, Dana Ashbrook and Claudia Ferri is currently in post production. Her next feature film project in Nicaragua shoots this month.
Steven Breckon (Director of Photography) is a Los Angeles-based DP, and a recent graduate of the American Film Institute's Cinematography MFA where he was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Tuition Scholarship. Since graduating Steven has shot commercials & music video's for LEVI'S, CONVERSE, MGMT and ARCADE FIRE, WOLFMAN OF PACOIMA--a Sundance Lab project written/directed by Calvin Reeder--as well as a television pilot directed by Shaka King titled RISQUE BENEDICT. The child of commercial fishermen, Steven grew up outside of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Max Goldblatt (Editor) is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. He recently collaborated with Hallie Cooper-Novack on the music video for MGMT’s When You Die. Some other editing credits: the forthcoming feature IN A RELATIONSHIP, starring Emma Roberts... the Slamdance-award winning HUNKY DORY, for director Michael Curtis Johnson… a few dozen short videos about technology for the web series Nat & Friends (produced by Google's Creative Lab). Max has also cut a bunch of stuff for actors-turned-directors Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos, Georgia King, and Michael Angarano; as well as for music-folk like Dirty Projectors, Spoon, Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson.
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