TALK SHIT
New York City, New York | Film Short
Comedy, LGBTQ
*HELP US REACH OUR STRETCH GOALS!* Ella wants to move out. Taylor does not take this well. TALK SHIT is a campy dark comedy thriller that draws on queer cinematic traditions to tell a contemporary story about the dissolution of a codependent friendship between two twenty-something women.
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*HELP US REACH OUR STRETCH GOALS!* Ella wants to move out. Taylor does not take this well. TALK SHIT is a campy dark comedy thriller that draws on queer cinematic traditions to tell a contemporary story about the dissolution of a codependent friendship between two twenty-something women.
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*UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our project thus far. Because of you, we have exceeded our goal for production. Please help us reach our stretch goals ($20,000) to elevate the quality of our production and to cover post-production costs and festival submissions.*
There is a legacy in cinema of queer artists creating dynamic, memorable roles for women: Penélope Cruz in PARALLEL MOTHERS, Julianne Moore in SAFE, Kathleen Turner in SERIAL MOM, etc. As queer artists ourselves, we call it “actresses actressing.” In recent years, the strides made for LGBTQ+ representation on screen have been momentous. However, we find that many of these stories have been packaged and sanitized in a way that makes them easily digestible for a straight cisgender audience. The bold, audacious queer auteur — the one whose often actress-centric stories captivate queer viewers like us and leave a lasting imprint on queer culture — has largely disappeared. Almodóvar, Haynes, Waters, Cholodenko, Van Sant… these landmark filmmakers have been established for decades. It is time to nurture and support a new generation of queer auteurs. Our aspiration is to be at the forefront of this change and to make movies that build on the legacy of this genre for a contemporary audience.
TALK SHIT is our endeavor to do just that. It is the story of two women in their late 20s, Taylor and Ella, who reach a breaking point in their friendship when Ella decides it is time for her to move out. TALK SHIT features unapologetically flawed characters, a campy sensibility drawn from the legacy of LGBTQ+ cinema, and most importantly, “actresses actressing.”
This short film will be a proof-of-concept for a feature version that was shortlisted by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and the Sundance Feature Film Development Track. If you were to support TALK SHIT, you would be giving us the opportunity to actualize our creative goals and to gain exposure for further development of the feature. Furthermore, you would be providing a platform for us to share our vision, one that prioritizes the queer auteur, for we believe that is the gateway to a broader range of LGBTQ+ representation.
"Taylor, I want to move out," ELLA says to her friend and soon-to-be roommate STEPH. Ella has been rehearsing this breakup speech for months. It's going to be hard for her to tell TAYLOR, her roommate of six years, that she will not be renewing their lease... especially because according to Steph, Taylor is a "possessive, controlling, unstable psycho."
But the time has come, and surely Ella's measured, practiced remarks will go over well, right? Little does Ella know, Taylor has been spending the day planning a decadent, over-the-top, birthday surprise for her one and only friend. Taylor is, to put it simply, a bit extra. When Ella arrives, she's taken aback. Maybe this is the wrong time to have this conversation, but before she can stop herself, the words come pouring out.
What follows is an outrageous series of twists and turns as Taylor refuses to accept the reality of losing control of her only friend. Birthday cake flies, a power drill revs, and blood splatters as the two women confront the unspeakable answer to a seemingly simple question: "Who's your best friend?"
Our creative vision for TALK SHIT is intertwined with our mission to revitalize queer auteur cinema. Our style consists of several carefully considered ingredients.
First, TALK SHIT is a New York City film and will draw on the legacy of New York cinema. Creating a domestic sense of home within cramped, suffocating apartment spaces is a recurring theme in our film and a harsh reality that comes with living here. We hope to shoot in a way that heightens that contrast, as seen in Baumbach’s FRANCES HA, Weill’s GIRLFRIENDS, and Dunham’s GIRLS.
The next ingredient takes those realistic depictions of city life and filters them through a vibrant and kaleidoscopic queer gaze. To achieve this, we will draw on the legacy of Almodóvar: bright colors, evocative textures, striking tonal shifts, etc, in the same way that Haynes evoked Sirk and contemporized that filmmaking aesthetic in FAR FROM HEAVEN.
Finally, we will recall the claustrophobic nature of psychological horror films, such as Reiner’s MISERY and Schroeder’s SINGLE WHITE FEMALE. However, we hope to rectify the problematic tropes within this genre by deepening the characterization of the women at the center of our story.
Analisa Gutierrez (Taylor) is a first-generation Mexican-American woman born and raised in East LA. In her senior year at the LA County High School for the Arts, she was honored as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts leading her to perform and work at the Kennedy Center. She matriculated to NYU Tisch as a Dean’s Scholar to study at the New Studio, Stonestreet Studios, and London’s RADA. She was featured in HBO’s A YoungArts Masterclass with Anna Deavere Smith and Alan Alda - the latter winning an Emmy for “Outstanding Children’s Program.”
Courtney Doyle (Ella) is a Los Angeles-based writer/actor/comedian. Through Barkville Productions, she has produced award-winning comedy shorts: Midnight Snack (2021 London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival; 2021 Philly Sketchfest Comedy Film Festival), Accessories (2021 Indie Short Fest), and Bad Chair (2022 Austin Under the Stars Film Festival). She performs regularly at The Second City. She graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern and is represented by Tiffin Creative Talent.
Tess Goldwyn (Steph) is an actor and filmmaker. She was recently in the award winning play Our Class at BAM, directed by Igor Golyak (‘The Orchard’ with Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov), which will return this coming fall 2024 at Classic Stage Company. She is soon to be seen in the feature films Ezra (starring Robert DeNiro, Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne) and Relay (starring Riz Ahmed and Lily James), directed by Academy Award Nominee David Mackenzie. Acting credits include Law and Order, Murphy Brown (CBS), Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+) and New Amsterdam (NBC). Tess is a graduate of Northwestern University (BA) and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Acting).
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The goal for our Seed & Spark campaign is to reach $15,000, which makes up for a substantial portion of our film’s total budget. Below is a breakdown of where your generous contributions would go:
Individually we are Will Thede and Ben Weiss, but collectively we are BOYFRIENDS, a new writer/director duo focused on telling stories through the queer gaze (or “gays,” if you will). Based in New York, BOYFRIENDS are committed to rejuvenating auteur-driven queer camp cinema by crafting compelling female and LBGTQ+ characters.
Currently, we are gearing up for our shoot in mid-June. Your contributions will help round out our budget for production. If we exceed our goal of $15,000, further donations can contribute to post-production costs and festival submissions. We expect the film to be completed by Fall 2024 in time for a festival run in 2025. Please spread the word about our project to your friends, family, and network! We thank you sincerely for contributing to our project!
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Cast & Crew
Costs $10,000
We have assembled an incredible team of artists and want to ensure that they are properly taken care of throughout our shoot.
Equipment
Costs $2,500
High quality camera and G&E equipment is expensive. Please help give our incredible DP and her team the tools to actualize this vision!
Production, Costumes & Makeup
Costs $2,500
Heightened and Campy does not come cheap either! In order to achieve this look, we need your help as well!
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About This Team
Will Thede (co-writer/co-director) graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television Production. His short film Me, Myself & Will won six craft awards at the NYU First Run Film Festival, including Producing, Writing & Acting. His short D*CK-HEAD won Best Comedy Duo at the New Visions & Voices Festival and the Audience Award at the Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival. Through his work as a trailer editor at Zealot Inc, he has edited the theatrical trailers for A.V. Rockwell’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner A Thousand and One, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, and Nathan Fielder & Benny Safdie's The Curse. He has worked on a variety of film and television campaigns including Best Picture winner Parasite and Disney’s Cruella, the latter of which won him gold at the Promax Awards.
Ben Weiss (co-writer/co-director) graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University and received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch, where he won the Special Award Across Media for his film, television, and theater work. As a screenwriter, Ben has placed in numerous competitions for his features Safe Havens (Academy Nicholl Fellowship ‘21, semifinalist & top 50; Carol Mendelsohn Drama Fellowship ‘21, semifinalist), Thick Skin (Carol Mendelsohn Drama Fellowship ‘20, semifinalist), and Death Sentence (ScreenCraft Drama Competition ‘22, semifinalist). He was a finalist for the 2021 David and Lynn Angell Comedy Fellowship for his half-hour pilot Unpopular. Through his work as a writer for “Puppet Regime,” a political comedy segment that airs on PBS, Ben won a Telly Award for Best Online Comedy Series.
Jamie Sweeney (producer) graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Film and Television, specializing in Production and Production Management. She has produced several films including Me, Myself & Will (dir. Will Thede), which won the craft award for Producing at the NYU First Run Film Festival, and Presentation (dir. Danielle Kampf), which was selected for Short of the Week and premiered at the HollyShorts Film Festival. She has worked in the production offices of Orange Is the New Black, Friends from College, and Broad City. While focused on her corporate career in Business Affairs, previously at Netflix and WME, Jamie supports the development, production, acquisition, and licensing of high-level titles across all budget tiers and global territories.
Morgan Prouse (producer) is a New York based producer and publicist. As co-founder of Avocado Toast Productions, she writes and produces millennial-oriented content. Morgan has also produced the limited web series, Thousand Dollar Listing. As a publicist at Amazon MGM, and previously United Artists Releasing, Annapurna Pictures, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, she has led campaigns for the Academy Award-winning films American Fiction, Women Talking, and No Time To Die. She has contributed to countless publicity campaigns spanning across budgets, demographics, and genres. Morgan graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wagner College with a B.A. in Arts Administration.
Devin Tusa (producer) has over a decade of experience working on commercials, pilots and films. He has developed and produced content for clients such as the Biden Presidential Campaign, Apple, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, PBS, and Showtime. Short films that he’s produced have screened and won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, and DocNYC. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and considers contract review a leisure activity. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and (as of this May) the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.
Remington Long (director of photography) is a cinematographer from rural Northern California, currently based in New York City. A passion for camera and documentary filmmaking has led her work to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the IFC Center, the Nitehawk Cinema and more. Remington was named by Zeiss Cinematography as one of the most “influential cinematographers” at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Her first feature as cinematographer, Sincerely, Los Angeles, is one of Ebony Studios’ inaugural projects and will be released in 2024. Remington is a member of the International Cinematographer’s Guild, IATSE Local 600 and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Stephanie Osin Cohen (production designer) is a production designer for Film, TV & Theater. Recent film credits include Familiar Touch (post-production), 31 Candles (post-production), Chaperone (world premiere at Sundance); Drills (world premiere at New York Film Festival), Circle Jerk (Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Home Exercise (New Directors/New Films world premiere at MoMA); Candace (American Pavilion selection at Cannes Film Festival); The Ladies (official selection at Outfest). TV Art Department credits include: Manifest (Netflix); SNL (NBC); Girls (HBO); The Night Of (HBO); Nurse Jackie (Showtime), The Family (ABC). Stephanie received her MFA from Yale School of Drama, and is a Fulbright scholar. www.stephanieosincohen.com
Avril Dominguez (costume designer) is a Brooklyn based costumer, designer and sewist. She is a proud member of IATSE 764 and currently works on Back to the Future: The Musical on Broadway. Her live theatre credits also include The Music Man (Broadway), Funny Girl (Broadway), Aladdin (Broadway), and the 21/22 season at The Metropolitan Opera. Past Short film work includes Cold Little Bird (2020) and Red Flags (2019). She spends her free time (and hard earned cash) creating clothes for herself and loved ones. One day, she will open her own studio to create custom pieces that fit like a glove and last forever.
Sophie Galowitz (graphic designer) is a New York based motion designer, illustrator, and experimental animator. She graduated from Cornell University with a BFA. As a motion designer at Zealot Inc, she works on a variety of film and television campaigns. She also creates animation, art, and design for independent film, music video, and fine art projects.
José Viqueira (first assistant director) is a writer, director, and assistant director who has stuck with his passion of storytelling since a young age. Raised all over the globe he used those experiences to craft unique stories and bring a new perspective to his works. After graduating film school in London, he started his professional career as a first AD, working on various projects in the UK. Afterwards he moved back to Madrid, Spain, where he worked as a 3rd AD on his first feature La Princesa Paca starring Irene Escolar. He is now based in New York, where he currently works for the U.N. whilst continuing his filmmaking career.
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*UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our project thus far. Because of you, we have exceeded our goal for production. Please help us reach our stretch goals ($20,000) to elevate the quality of our production and to cover post-production costs and festival submissions.*
There is a legacy in cinema of queer artists creating dynamic, memorable roles for women: Penélope Cruz in PARALLEL MOTHERS, Julianne Moore in SAFE, Kathleen Turner in SERIAL MOM, etc. As queer artists ourselves, we call it “actresses actressing.” In recent years, the strides made for LGBTQ+ representation on screen have been momentous. However, we find that many of these stories have been packaged and sanitized in a way that makes them easily digestible for a straight cisgender audience. The bold, audacious queer auteur — the one whose often actress-centric stories captivate queer viewers like us and leave a lasting imprint on queer culture — has largely disappeared. Almodóvar, Haynes, Waters, Cholodenko, Van Sant… these landmark filmmakers have been established for decades. It is time to nurture and support a new generation of queer auteurs. Our aspiration is to be at the forefront of this change and to make movies that build on the legacy of this genre for a contemporary audience.
TALK SHIT is our endeavor to do just that. It is the story of two women in their late 20s, Taylor and Ella, who reach a breaking point in their friendship when Ella decides it is time for her to move out. TALK SHIT features unapologetically flawed characters, a campy sensibility drawn from the legacy of LGBTQ+ cinema, and most importantly, “actresses actressing.”
This short film will be a proof-of-concept for a feature version that was shortlisted by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and the Sundance Feature Film Development Track. If you were to support TALK SHIT, you would be giving us the opportunity to actualize our creative goals and to gain exposure for further development of the feature. Furthermore, you would be providing a platform for us to share our vision, one that prioritizes the queer auteur, for we believe that is the gateway to a broader range of LGBTQ+ representation.
"Taylor, I want to move out," ELLA says to her friend and soon-to-be roommate STEPH. Ella has been rehearsing this breakup speech for months. It's going to be hard for her to tell TAYLOR, her roommate of six years, that she will not be renewing their lease... especially because according to Steph, Taylor is a "possessive, controlling, unstable psycho."
But the time has come, and surely Ella's measured, practiced remarks will go over well, right? Little does Ella know, Taylor has been spending the day planning a decadent, over-the-top, birthday surprise for her one and only friend. Taylor is, to put it simply, a bit extra. When Ella arrives, she's taken aback. Maybe this is the wrong time to have this conversation, but before she can stop herself, the words come pouring out.
What follows is an outrageous series of twists and turns as Taylor refuses to accept the reality of losing control of her only friend. Birthday cake flies, a power drill revs, and blood splatters as the two women confront the unspeakable answer to a seemingly simple question: "Who's your best friend?"
Our creative vision for TALK SHIT is intertwined with our mission to revitalize queer auteur cinema. Our style consists of several carefully considered ingredients.
First, TALK SHIT is a New York City film and will draw on the legacy of New York cinema. Creating a domestic sense of home within cramped, suffocating apartment spaces is a recurring theme in our film and a harsh reality that comes with living here. We hope to shoot in a way that heightens that contrast, as seen in Baumbach’s FRANCES HA, Weill’s GIRLFRIENDS, and Dunham’s GIRLS.
The next ingredient takes those realistic depictions of city life and filters them through a vibrant and kaleidoscopic queer gaze. To achieve this, we will draw on the legacy of Almodóvar: bright colors, evocative textures, striking tonal shifts, etc, in the same way that Haynes evoked Sirk and contemporized that filmmaking aesthetic in FAR FROM HEAVEN.
Finally, we will recall the claustrophobic nature of psychological horror films, such as Reiner’s MISERY and Schroeder’s SINGLE WHITE FEMALE. However, we hope to rectify the problematic tropes within this genre by deepening the characterization of the women at the center of our story.
Analisa Gutierrez (Taylor) is a first-generation Mexican-American woman born and raised in East LA. In her senior year at the LA County High School for the Arts, she was honored as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts leading her to perform and work at the Kennedy Center. She matriculated to NYU Tisch as a Dean’s Scholar to study at the New Studio, Stonestreet Studios, and London’s RADA. She was featured in HBO’s A YoungArts Masterclass with Anna Deavere Smith and Alan Alda - the latter winning an Emmy for “Outstanding Children’s Program.”
Courtney Doyle (Ella) is a Los Angeles-based writer/actor/comedian. Through Barkville Productions, she has produced award-winning comedy shorts: Midnight Snack (2021 London-Worldwide Comedy Short Film Festival; 2021 Philly Sketchfest Comedy Film Festival), Accessories (2021 Indie Short Fest), and Bad Chair (2022 Austin Under the Stars Film Festival). She performs regularly at The Second City. She graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern and is represented by Tiffin Creative Talent.
Tess Goldwyn (Steph) is an actor and filmmaker. She was recently in the award winning play Our Class at BAM, directed by Igor Golyak (‘The Orchard’ with Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov), which will return this coming fall 2024 at Classic Stage Company. She is soon to be seen in the feature films Ezra (starring Robert DeNiro, Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne) and Relay (starring Riz Ahmed and Lily James), directed by Academy Award Nominee David Mackenzie. Acting credits include Law and Order, Murphy Brown (CBS), Better Nate Than Ever (Disney+) and New Amsterdam (NBC). Tess is a graduate of Northwestern University (BA) and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Acting).
The goal for our Seed & Spark campaign is to reach $15,000, which makes up for a substantial portion of our film’s total budget. Below is a breakdown of where your generous contributions would go:
Individually we are Will Thede and Ben Weiss, but collectively we are BOYFRIENDS, a new writer/director duo focused on telling stories through the queer gaze (or “gays,” if you will). Based in New York, BOYFRIENDS are committed to rejuvenating auteur-driven queer camp cinema by crafting compelling female and LBGTQ+ characters.
Currently, we are gearing up for our shoot in mid-June. Your contributions will help round out our budget for production. If we exceed our goal of $15,000, further donations can contribute to post-production costs and festival submissions. We expect the film to be completed by Fall 2024 in time for a festival run in 2025. Please spread the word about our project to your friends, family, and network! We thank you sincerely for contributing to our project!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cast & Crew
Costs $10,000
We have assembled an incredible team of artists and want to ensure that they are properly taken care of throughout our shoot.
Equipment
Costs $2,500
High quality camera and G&E equipment is expensive. Please help give our incredible DP and her team the tools to actualize this vision!
Production, Costumes & Makeup
Costs $2,500
Heightened and Campy does not come cheap either! In order to achieve this look, we need your help as well!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Will Thede (co-writer/co-director) graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television Production. His short film Me, Myself & Will won six craft awards at the NYU First Run Film Festival, including Producing, Writing & Acting. His short D*CK-HEAD won Best Comedy Duo at the New Visions & Voices Festival and the Audience Award at the Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival. Through his work as a trailer editor at Zealot Inc, he has edited the theatrical trailers for A.V. Rockwell’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner A Thousand and One, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, and Nathan Fielder & Benny Safdie's The Curse. He has worked on a variety of film and television campaigns including Best Picture winner Parasite and Disney’s Cruella, the latter of which won him gold at the Promax Awards.
Ben Weiss (co-writer/co-director) graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University and received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch, where he won the Special Award Across Media for his film, television, and theater work. As a screenwriter, Ben has placed in numerous competitions for his features Safe Havens (Academy Nicholl Fellowship ‘21, semifinalist & top 50; Carol Mendelsohn Drama Fellowship ‘21, semifinalist), Thick Skin (Carol Mendelsohn Drama Fellowship ‘20, semifinalist), and Death Sentence (ScreenCraft Drama Competition ‘22, semifinalist). He was a finalist for the 2021 David and Lynn Angell Comedy Fellowship for his half-hour pilot Unpopular. Through his work as a writer for “Puppet Regime,” a political comedy segment that airs on PBS, Ben won a Telly Award for Best Online Comedy Series.
Jamie Sweeney (producer) graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Film and Television, specializing in Production and Production Management. She has produced several films including Me, Myself & Will (dir. Will Thede), which won the craft award for Producing at the NYU First Run Film Festival, and Presentation (dir. Danielle Kampf), which was selected for Short of the Week and premiered at the HollyShorts Film Festival. She has worked in the production offices of Orange Is the New Black, Friends from College, and Broad City. While focused on her corporate career in Business Affairs, previously at Netflix and WME, Jamie supports the development, production, acquisition, and licensing of high-level titles across all budget tiers and global territories.
Morgan Prouse (producer) is a New York based producer and publicist. As co-founder of Avocado Toast Productions, she writes and produces millennial-oriented content. Morgan has also produced the limited web series, Thousand Dollar Listing. As a publicist at Amazon MGM, and previously United Artists Releasing, Annapurna Pictures, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, she has led campaigns for the Academy Award-winning films American Fiction, Women Talking, and No Time To Die. She has contributed to countless publicity campaigns spanning across budgets, demographics, and genres. Morgan graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wagner College with a B.A. in Arts Administration.
Devin Tusa (producer) has over a decade of experience working on commercials, pilots and films. He has developed and produced content for clients such as the Biden Presidential Campaign, Apple, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, PBS, and Showtime. Short films that he’s produced have screened and won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, and DocNYC. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and considers contract review a leisure activity. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and (as of this May) the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law.
Remington Long (director of photography) is a cinematographer from rural Northern California, currently based in New York City. A passion for camera and documentary filmmaking has led her work to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the IFC Center, the Nitehawk Cinema and more. Remington was named by Zeiss Cinematography as one of the most “influential cinematographers” at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Her first feature as cinematographer, Sincerely, Los Angeles, is one of Ebony Studios’ inaugural projects and will be released in 2024. Remington is a member of the International Cinematographer’s Guild, IATSE Local 600 and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Stephanie Osin Cohen (production designer) is a production designer for Film, TV & Theater. Recent film credits include Familiar Touch (post-production), 31 Candles (post-production), Chaperone (world premiere at Sundance); Drills (world premiere at New York Film Festival), Circle Jerk (Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Home Exercise (New Directors/New Films world premiere at MoMA); Candace (American Pavilion selection at Cannes Film Festival); The Ladies (official selection at Outfest). TV Art Department credits include: Manifest (Netflix); SNL (NBC); Girls (HBO); The Night Of (HBO); Nurse Jackie (Showtime), The Family (ABC). Stephanie received her MFA from Yale School of Drama, and is a Fulbright scholar. www.stephanieosincohen.com
Avril Dominguez (costume designer) is a Brooklyn based costumer, designer and sewist. She is a proud member of IATSE 764 and currently works on Back to the Future: The Musical on Broadway. Her live theatre credits also include The Music Man (Broadway), Funny Girl (Broadway), Aladdin (Broadway), and the 21/22 season at The Metropolitan Opera. Past Short film work includes Cold Little Bird (2020) and Red Flags (2019). She spends her free time (and hard earned cash) creating clothes for herself and loved ones. One day, she will open her own studio to create custom pieces that fit like a glove and last forever.
Sophie Galowitz (graphic designer) is a New York based motion designer, illustrator, and experimental animator. She graduated from Cornell University with a BFA. As a motion designer at Zealot Inc, she works on a variety of film and television campaigns. She also creates animation, art, and design for independent film, music video, and fine art projects.
José Viqueira (first assistant director) is a writer, director, and assistant director who has stuck with his passion of storytelling since a young age. Raised all over the globe he used those experiences to craft unique stories and bring a new perspective to his works. After graduating film school in London, he started his professional career as a first AD, working on various projects in the UK. Afterwards he moved back to Madrid, Spain, where he worked as a 3rd AD on his first feature La Princesa Paca starring Irene Escolar. He is now based in New York, where he currently works for the U.N. whilst continuing his filmmaking career.