Milo Abner is obsessed with following his life plan, but after getting rejected from a summer internship and desperate for money, Milo stumbles upon Greyson Decker, the leader of the school’s drug ring. After Greyson's offer of a one-time job goes horribly wrong, both of their life trajectories are changed forever.

Milo Abner is an intelligent, albeit naïve junior at St. Benedict's Academy. A self-isolationist with a bit of a superiority complex, his only real friend is his English teacher, Mr. Morrison. Due to at-home financial constraints and his inability to secure a summer job, he finds himself in the sympathies of the school's outcast Greyson "Grey" Decker. Over the course of an evening, Milo learns through Greyson about the unpredictable nature of life and that not everything is black and white.

The events of "The Job" unfold in a typical upper-middle class, Californian suburb where all players maintain the facade of the perfect white picket-fence life. Milo and Grey attend a private Catholic school-- St. Benedict's Academy-- a quasi-microcosm of the town's enforced societal norms. Students are pushed to their absolute limits so that they may achieve their "chosen" dreams. Within these walls are the future leaders of the nation... or so they say. Behind the facades are a sea of scared kids unsure of their futures in a world that constantly expects greatness from them.



"The Job" is reflective of our shared experiences in school environments where only the best is "good enough.” As the co-writers of this story, we (Matthew and Christopher) both have a shared experience of going to private Catholic/Christian school for the majority of our formative years. Although we recognize the privilege this was, as we grew older we became more aware of how that pressure for success and religious shame has affected us now as adults. We were measured purely on our scores, our output and extra-curriculars with the additional pressure of shame and values being ingrained into us.

We're sold an American Dream that if you work hard, follow the rules, go to college, obtain a respectable job you’ll achieve a sense of “purpose and happiness”-- but for our generation, this idea of the American Dream is now outdated and unattainable. These enormous pressures placed upon us at a young age just for it to turn out the way it has with regards to the state of the world has fostered a feeling of apathy--  a "screw-it-all" attitude. What has been the point of all this preparation? All the years of following the rules? All the years spent doing what we were told to do, rather than what we wanted? "The Job" functions as a means to explore these questions and visually describe this ongoing internal struggle.

Because every single person on this production, and in our generation, are currently in that stage of adult life where we’re actively trying to understand who you are and where to place ourselves in the context of everything. What the past 4 years have revealed is that old systems and ways of thinking have been completely flipped on their head, leaving it up to current generations to figure out the kind of world we want to live in. We don’t claim to know the answers, but we do know that a change in thought and perspective is happening at this very moment -- and as filmmakers, this story is our way of expressing what this cultural moment means to us. 

Life is complicated. It’s a whirlwind of an experience– a beautiful mess that we are lucky enough to be a part of and that we have to find a way of moving forward despite the obstacles the system throws our way. We can’t afford to keep living the way that we historically have been, but we can’t look at life with an eye of “nothing matters”. We have agency to change things and create new pathways in this rocky world. With an understanding of the difficulties our generation faces in rationalizing the chaos, we want audiences to walk away from “The Job” inspired to persist and find their own way through.

Like any major passion project, we need the right amount of funding in order for our story to manifest into a reality. A budget of $6,000 would allow us to cover: 

• Quality meals for the cast and crew
• Locations that are integral to the story
• Equipment necessary to allow us to have the creative freedom we need when it comes to the cinematography 
• Wardrobe and props to immerse us into the world 
• Any post-production and film festival fees covered so the film can get all the TLC it needs

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