The Weekend On Cape Cod When Everything Changed
Los Angeles, California | Film Feature
Romantic Comedy, Drama
A wide-eyed Iranian immigrant accepts a wedding proposal from her billionaire boss’s son in order to remain in the States. What starts out as a simple green card wedding on Cape Cod becomes so much more when her two closest friends arrive with their own boyfriends and cross-cultural baggage in tow.
The Weekend On Cape Cod When Everything Changed
Los Angeles, California | Film Feature
Romantic Comedy, Drama
2 Campaigns | California, United States
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A wide-eyed Iranian immigrant accepts a wedding proposal from her billionaire boss’s son in order to remain in the States. What starts out as a simple green card wedding on Cape Cod becomes so much more when her two closest friends arrive with their own boyfriends and cross-cultural baggage in tow.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
OUR PARTY CONTINUES AT THE FILM COLLABORATIVE! FOLLOW THE LINK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS FILM <3 <3 <3
LOGLINE
A wide-eyed Iranian immigrant accepts a wedding proposal from her billionaire boss’s son in order to keep her visa status in the US. What starts out as a green card wedding on Cape Cod becomes so much more when her two closest friends arrive with their own boyfriends and cross-cultural baggage in tow.
ABOUT THE FILM
When Rana’s expiring visa forces her to face the reality of giving up her career dreams and returning home to Iran, she accepts a wedding proposal from her “fun summer fling” Adam, who happens to be the son of her billionaire boss. Overwhelmed by her decision, Rana enlists the help of her two closest friends, Nadia and Setareh, to a Cape Cod getaway that will either be the weekend of her dreams, or the worst mistake of her life.
The three friends reunite on the beach when Nadia and Setareh arrive with their own boyfriends (and drama) in tow. What starts off as a simple visa-wedding gets complicated when unexpected feelings, friends’ opinions, and cultural expectations are involved. Over the course of the weekend, everything starts to unravel as friendships and relationships are put to the test, but in one strange way or another, through the thick of the growing pains, everyone comes together stronger than ever. Rana, Nadia, and Setareh will forever remember this trip as The Weekend On Cape Cod When Everything Changed.
FUNDRAISING
Independent film is not for the faint of heart, but we're up for the challenge! We are looking to raise a MINIMUM of $75,000 to help support our production needs and make this film a reality. That being said, our dream is to raise far beyond that - and we need YOUR help to do it!
We're elated to have already raised 50% of our financial needs through generous private equity investors. We're looking to raise another 25% through this crowdfunding campaign so that we can stay on track and film Cape Cod THIS COMING APRIL! Yep, you read that right. It's only a few months away and it's where YOU come in to make this possible! We are infinitely grateful for your support.
WRITER'S STATEMENT
Is there a time in your life that you credit as the moment everything changed? For me, it was this. This weekend on Cape Cod. I was invited to a spontaneous wedding. It turned out to be so much more. That weekend, in a giant summer home, on the most perfect Cape Cod beach, I witnessed two perfect strangers fall in love. I made life long friends. I found my husband. I had earth-shattering realizations about who I was and who I wanted to become. We all did. Almost in grief, I experienced for the very first time what losing my youth would feel like. We all did. And it hurt.
I spent my adolescent years living between a conservative town in Pennsylvania and a city in the United Arab Emirates. I’ve attended both Catholic school and Muslim class. I’ve been labeled both “prudish” and “unholy.” American and foreign. Exotic, ethnically-ambiguous, a POC, not a POC, a terrorist, and even worse...white! I’m a 3rd Culture Kid! Confused. With a dichotomy of beliefs, interests, and music taste (Country really does it for me, I’m not gonna lie). This story celebrates the grey area of “identity” without needing to define it. It celebrates the beautiful clusterfuck of emotions that is being from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
I believe this story has a little something in it for everyone. Tons of love, tons of laughs, tons of white people (don’t worry), and plenty of other perfectly imperfect characters that will leave you feeling a little more seen. I sincerely hope you’ll consider helping us bring this project to life.
MEET OUR CAST (SO FAR!)
Medalion Rahimi as "Rana" - the Harvard educated Iranian immigrant: IMDB
Layla Mohammadi as "Set" - the young lawyer with a major stick up her butt: IMDB
Dalia Rooni as "Nadia" - the chaotic college drop out: IMDB
ADDITIONAL WAYS TO HELP
Sure. What every bride wants the most is cold hard cash. Weddings are expensive!! (And so are wedding movies.)
But, if a donation isn’t possible for you right now, there are plenty of free items available on our registry too! We can always use encouragement and moral support as we try to make our Dream Day a reality…and many of these other gifts have tangible benefits to our project as well.
- FOLLOW OUR SEED & SPARK PAGE - See that little blue heart at the top right of this page? That’s like a vote of confidence for our project. Once we hit 250 followers, we start to unlock exclusive creator perks like film festival waivers, custom marketing consulting, and even production gear. If we hit 1,000 or more followers, we’ll have access to these perks in perpetuity. It’s also a great way to get updates on our project!
- FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA - We have fun hijinks and shenanigans planned for every day of our Seed & Spark campaign—and we don’t want you to miss a moment!! Follow @weekendoncapecodfilm on Facebook and Instagram to see what we’re up to this month.
- TELL YOUR FRIENDS - Look. We’ve entered into a quickie engagement with Seed & Spark. Only 30 days! We need everyone’s help to reach the widest possible audience and hit our goal during our short campaign window. So tell a friend or fifty via email, text, social media, word-of-mouth—anything!
- DONATE GIFTS IN KIND - Do you have some airline miles burning a hole in your pocket? Maybe you have a home in Cape Cod that doesn’t get a lot of use in the off-season. Or, maybe you own a bridal shop and would love to see your merchandise featured on the big screen? Take a look at our Wish List to see the budget line items that we’re trying to fund through this campaign…then make us an offer!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
TRAVEL
Costs $10,000
Getting our incredible talent from New York/Los Angeles to set is one of our biggest costs. Help us cover flight costs for our lead actors!
HEALTHY CATERING
Costs $8,000
Staying healthy on a budget is always hard, especially on location! Help us feed our cast and crew for the month!
CAMERA EQUIPMENT + LIGHTING
Costs $10,000
Renting the best cameras and lighting properly will be important to make sure the film is primed for the market.
FESTIVALS AND ADVERTISING
Costs $5,000
Once the film is completed we will need to get it to festivals around the world, then to your screens at home.
CAST AND CREW
Costs $12,000
Help us pay incredible actors and crew members who are the best at what they do!
LOCATIONS
Costs $10,000
Our dream location on Cape Cod that was seen in Netflix's PERFECT COUPLE with Nicole Kidman. We also have some LA locations too!
MAKEUP, WARDROBE, PROPS & SET DECORATION
Costs $5,500
These key things help bring our script and our characters from 2D to 3D.
EDITOR
Costs $5,000
A comedy is only as good as its editor. Help us find someone who can keep the comedy of our incredible actors and writing alive.
Share this update!
About This Team
WRITER
: DALIA ROONI
Dalia Rooni is an NYU trained actor and writer who has an extensive resume spanning Film, TV, Voiceover and Commercial working with legends such as John Travolta and Rainn Wilson. Dalia’s complete lack of patience led her to writing her own material from “Operation White Boy”, amedy thriller which explored religion across generations and debuted at the Diversity In Cannes Film Festival, to “Gen V”, a horror comedy which won Best Writer, Best Concept and Best Acting awards at the CFC in addition to a development deal with Bootleg Universe, to “Clean Slate”, Dalia’s last collaboration with long time friend and collaborator, Lauren Noll. In addition, Dalia placed in the top 3% for the WWFC pilot accelerator program for her comedy pilot, “Ethnically Ambiguous”, and is currently in the early stages of development on another comedy feature “Minor Differences” with actor and producer, Medalion Rahimi.
DIRECTOR: LAUREN NOLL
Lauren Noll is a Los Angeles based actor and filmmaker with a Master’s Degree in Acting from Harvard University, making her a true actors’ director. In addition to acting in various films and commercials, Lauren’s curiosity around other roles in filmmaking led her to write, direct, and star in her first award-winning short film,“Honor” (2020). She is thrilled to have followed that filmmaking debut with “Gen V” (2021) for which she and Dalia Rooni were granted a development deal with Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe, and “Clean Slate” (2022), which was awarded a grand jury prize at the CFC, and finally “The Heart of Texas” (2023), which won Lauren nine acting awards during its extensive festival run, qualified for the Academy Awards, and found itself on several Oscar prediction lists! This project will mark Lauren’s feature film directorial debut, and she couldn’t be more thrilled to embark on this territory with her work wife and long time collaborator, Dalia Rooni.
PRODUCER: EMILY REACH WHITE (STUDIO 15)
Award-winning filmmaker Emily Reach White has an extensive and varied career writing and producing films, both short and feature length. In 20 films ranging from the Southern Gothic comedy anthology Unbecoming, to the personal dramedy based on her father's terminal disease Get Better, to the cical movie business exploits of Cinema Purgatorio, White has continually showcased her diverse talents and creativity. Recently, she produced the music-centric, coming of age comedy Electric Jesus, which explores the world of a fictional 80's Christian hair metal band called 316. The band's journey from playing Bible camp talent shows to head-banging rock venues is an amusing look at youth culture during the time when heavy metal music was bathed in controversy. The film stars Brian Baumgartner (The Office) and Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire). Electric Jesus was awarded Best Picture at the 2020 Orlando Film Festival. It was also selected as Best Narrative Feature at both the Fayetteville Film Festival and Rome (Georgia) International Film Festival, and was screened at over a dozen festivals in 2020.
PROD
UCER: MEDALION RAHIMI
Medalion Rahimi is a first generation Iranian-American actor and producer who received her BA in theater from UCLA. She is best known for portraying Special Agent Fatima Namazi on CBS’s ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’, the first hijabi Muslim series regular on American network television. She has also starred in movies like ‘Before I Fall’ and made guest appearances on Seth Rogen/ Hulu’s ‘Pam and Tommy’ and Reese Witherspoon/Netflix’s ‘From Scratch’. Her production company “Saffron Honey Films” has produced projects such as “The First Time” with Logan Miller and Echobend Pictures, “Wild Braid” and “Moving Day” which have been accepted into prestigious film festivals such as Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Cannes Short Film Festival, Beirut Film Festival, among others. Saffron Honey Films strives to move the needle with MENA creatives, and tell stories of the minority and multicultural experience in America.
PRODUCER: ZEIN KHLEIF
Zein Khleif is a first generation Palestinian-American producer. She grew up between Washington D.C. and Amman, Jordan and speaks English and Arabic fluently. Zein has been honored to produce many meaningful projects. Her feature documentary, Three Promises, is currently on the festival circuit. It won Best Documentary Feature at Camden International in 2023 and has screened at festivals such DOC NYC, True/False, Big Sky, Sheffield, Visions Du Reel, IDFA, and Ambulante, among others. Three of her narrative short films are currently in post-production. Zein aims to create and support art that uplifts underrepresented communities, with a special penchant for Middle Eastern and female-driven stories. She is currently Head of Development at Echobend Pictures in Los Angeles. She is also getting her MFA in Creative Producing from USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program and holds a BA in Political Psychology from Brown University. When she’s not working, Zein enjoys horseback riding, hiking, and singing.
LINE PRODUCER: ALECIA ORSINI
Alecia Orsini is an award winning and multimedia professional and Line Producer with 18+ years of experience working in the film industry. She is currently producing several films in the New England region. She has spent time as a Director, Production Designer, Graphic Designer, Camera Operator, and Voice Over Artist. Alecia is a prominent voice in the region's film community as President Emerita of Women in Film and Video of New England. She also devoted time to Save MA Film Jobs, working behind the scenes for the grassroots organization supporting the Film Tax Incentives in the state of Massachusetts. She's a staunch advocate, utilizing her experience and platform to amplify the voices of the underserved within the film industry such as women of color and members of the LGBTQI+ communities. In 2012 she was named one of the Cape & Plymouth Business 40 Under 40 for her volunteer work entrepreneurship and in 2019 she was named an Imagineer for her service to the film industry by Imagine Magazine. Aside from her professional work Alecia is a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, can drive a stick shift and is the proud mother of two rambunctious boys.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
OUR PARTY CONTINUES AT THE FILM COLLABORATIVE! FOLLOW THE LINK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS FILM <3 <3 <3
LOGLINE
A wide-eyed Iranian immigrant accepts a wedding proposal from her billionaire boss’s son in order to keep her visa status in the US. What starts out as a green card wedding on Cape Cod becomes so much more when her two closest friends arrive with their own boyfriends and cross-cultural baggage in tow.
ABOUT THE FILM
When Rana’s expiring visa forces her to face the reality of giving up her career dreams and returning home to Iran, she accepts a wedding proposal from her “fun summer fling” Adam, who happens to be the son of her billionaire boss. Overwhelmed by her decision, Rana enlists the help of her two closest friends, Nadia and Setareh, to a Cape Cod getaway that will either be the weekend of her dreams, or the worst mistake of her life.
The three friends reunite on the beach when Nadia and Setareh arrive with their own boyfriends (and drama) in tow. What starts off as a simple visa-wedding gets complicated when unexpected feelings, friends’ opinions, and cultural expectations are involved. Over the course of the weekend, everything starts to unravel as friendships and relationships are put to the test, but in one strange way or another, through the thick of the growing pains, everyone comes together stronger than ever. Rana, Nadia, and Setareh will forever remember this trip as The Weekend On Cape Cod When Everything Changed.
FUNDRAISING
Independent film is not for the faint of heart, but we're up for the challenge! We are looking to raise a MINIMUM of $75,000 to help support our production needs and make this film a reality. That being said, our dream is to raise far beyond that - and we need YOUR help to do it!
We're elated to have already raised 50% of our financial needs through generous private equity investors. We're looking to raise another 25% through this crowdfunding campaign so that we can stay on track and film Cape Cod THIS COMING APRIL! Yep, you read that right. It's only a few months away and it's where YOU come in to make this possible! We are infinitely grateful for your support.
WRITER'S STATEMENT
Is there a time in your life that you credit as the moment everything changed? For me, it was this. This weekend on Cape Cod. I was invited to a spontaneous wedding. It turned out to be so much more. That weekend, in a giant summer home, on the most perfect Cape Cod beach, I witnessed two perfect strangers fall in love. I made life long friends. I found my husband. I had earth-shattering realizations about who I was and who I wanted to become. We all did. Almost in grief, I experienced for the very first time what losing my youth would feel like. We all did. And it hurt.
I spent my adolescent years living between a conservative town in Pennsylvania and a city in the United Arab Emirates. I’ve attended both Catholic school and Muslim class. I’ve been labeled both “prudish” and “unholy.” American and foreign. Exotic, ethnically-ambiguous, a POC, not a POC, a terrorist, and even worse...white! I’m a 3rd Culture Kid! Confused. With a dichotomy of beliefs, interests, and music taste (Country really does it for me, I’m not gonna lie). This story celebrates the grey area of “identity” without needing to define it. It celebrates the beautiful clusterfuck of emotions that is being from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
I believe this story has a little something in it for everyone. Tons of love, tons of laughs, tons of white people (don’t worry), and plenty of other perfectly imperfect characters that will leave you feeling a little more seen. I sincerely hope you’ll consider helping us bring this project to life.
MEET OUR CAST (SO FAR!)
Medalion Rahimi as "Rana" - the Harvard educated Iranian immigrant: IMDB
Layla Mohammadi as "Set" - the young lawyer with a major stick up her butt: IMDB
Dalia Rooni as "Nadia" - the chaotic college drop out: IMDB
ADDITIONAL WAYS TO HELP
Sure. What every bride wants the most is cold hard cash. Weddings are expensive!! (And so are wedding movies.)
But, if a donation isn’t possible for you right now, there are plenty of free items available on our registry too! We can always use encouragement and moral support as we try to make our Dream Day a reality…and many of these other gifts have tangible benefits to our project as well.
- FOLLOW OUR SEED & SPARK PAGE - See that little blue heart at the top right of this page? That’s like a vote of confidence for our project. Once we hit 250 followers, we start to unlock exclusive creator perks like film festival waivers, custom marketing consulting, and even production gear. If we hit 1,000 or more followers, we’ll have access to these perks in perpetuity. It’s also a great way to get updates on our project!
- FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA - We have fun hijinks and shenanigans planned for every day of our Seed & Spark campaign—and we don’t want you to miss a moment!! Follow @weekendoncapecodfilm on Facebook and Instagram to see what we’re up to this month.
- TELL YOUR FRIENDS - Look. We’ve entered into a quickie engagement with Seed & Spark. Only 30 days! We need everyone’s help to reach the widest possible audience and hit our goal during our short campaign window. So tell a friend or fifty via email, text, social media, word-of-mouth—anything!
- DONATE GIFTS IN KIND - Do you have some airline miles burning a hole in your pocket? Maybe you have a home in Cape Cod that doesn’t get a lot of use in the off-season. Or, maybe you own a bridal shop and would love to see your merchandise featured on the big screen? Take a look at our Wish List to see the budget line items that we’re trying to fund through this campaign…then make us an offer!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
TRAVEL
Costs $10,000
Getting our incredible talent from New York/Los Angeles to set is one of our biggest costs. Help us cover flight costs for our lead actors!
HEALTHY CATERING
Costs $8,000
Staying healthy on a budget is always hard, especially on location! Help us feed our cast and crew for the month!
CAMERA EQUIPMENT + LIGHTING
Costs $10,000
Renting the best cameras and lighting properly will be important to make sure the film is primed for the market.
FESTIVALS AND ADVERTISING
Costs $5,000
Once the film is completed we will need to get it to festivals around the world, then to your screens at home.
CAST AND CREW
Costs $12,000
Help us pay incredible actors and crew members who are the best at what they do!
LOCATIONS
Costs $10,000
Our dream location on Cape Cod that was seen in Netflix's PERFECT COUPLE with Nicole Kidman. We also have some LA locations too!
MAKEUP, WARDROBE, PROPS & SET DECORATION
Costs $5,500
These key things help bring our script and our characters from 2D to 3D.
EDITOR
Costs $5,000
A comedy is only as good as its editor. Help us find someone who can keep the comedy of our incredible actors and writing alive.
Share this update!
About This Team
WRITER: DALIA ROONI
Dalia Rooni is an NYU trained actor and writer who has an extensive resume spanning Film, TV, Voiceover and Commercial working with legends such as John Travolta and Rainn Wilson. Dalia’s complete lack of patience led her to writing her own material from “Operation White Boy”, amedy thriller which explored religion across generations and debuted at the Diversity In Cannes Film Festival, to “Gen V”, a horror comedy which won Best Writer, Best Concept and Best Acting awards at the CFC in addition to a development deal with Bootleg Universe, to “Clean Slate”, Dalia’s last collaboration with long time friend and collaborator, Lauren Noll. In addition, Dalia placed in the top 3% for the WWFC pilot accelerator program for her comedy pilot, “Ethnically Ambiguous”, and is currently in the early stages of development on another comedy feature “Minor Differences” with actor and producer, Medalion Rahimi.
DIRECTOR: LAUREN NOLL
Lauren Noll is a Los Angeles based actor and filmmaker with a Master’s Degree in Acting from Harvard University, making her a true actors’ director. In addition to acting in various films and commercials, Lauren’s curiosity around other roles in filmmaking led her to write, direct, and star in her first award-winning short film,“Honor” (2020). She is thrilled to have followed that filmmaking debut with “Gen V” (2021) for which she and Dalia Rooni were granted a development deal with Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe, and “Clean Slate” (2022), which was awarded a grand jury prize at the CFC, and finally “The Heart of Texas” (2023), which won Lauren nine acting awards during its extensive festival run, qualified for the Academy Awards, and found itself on several Oscar prediction lists! This project will mark Lauren’s feature film directorial debut, and she couldn’t be more thrilled to embark on this territory with her work wife and long time collaborator, Dalia Rooni.
PRODUCER: EMILY REACH WHITE (STUDIO 15)
Award-winning filmmaker Emily Reach White has an extensive and varied career writing and producing films, both short and feature length. In 20 films ranging from the Southern Gothic comedy anthology Unbecoming, to the personal dramedy based on her father's terminal disease Get Better, to the cical movie business exploits of Cinema Purgatorio, White has continually showcased her diverse talents and creativity. Recently, she produced the music-centric, coming of age comedy Electric Jesus, which explores the world of a fictional 80's Christian hair metal band called 316. The band's journey from playing Bible camp talent shows to head-banging rock venues is an amusing look at youth culture during the time when heavy metal music was bathed in controversy. The film stars Brian Baumgartner (The Office) and Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire). Electric Jesus was awarded Best Picture at the 2020 Orlando Film Festival. It was also selected as Best Narrative Feature at both the Fayetteville Film Festival and Rome (Georgia) International Film Festival, and was screened at over a dozen festivals in 2020.
PRODUCER: MEDALION RAHIMI
Medalion Rahimi is a first generation Iranian-American actor and producer who received her BA in theater from UCLA. She is best known for portraying Special Agent Fatima Namazi on CBS’s ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’, the first hijabi Muslim series regular on American network television. She has also starred in movies like ‘Before I Fall’ and made guest appearances on Seth Rogen/ Hulu’s ‘Pam and Tommy’ and Reese Witherspoon/Netflix’s ‘From Scratch’. Her production company “Saffron Honey Films” has produced projects such as “The First Time” with Logan Miller and Echobend Pictures, “Wild Braid” and “Moving Day” which have been accepted into prestigious film festivals such as Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Cannes Short Film Festival, Beirut Film Festival, among others. Saffron Honey Films strives to move the needle with MENA creatives, and tell stories of the minority and multicultural experience in America.
PRODUCER: ZEIN KHLEIF
Zein Khleif is a first generation Palestinian-American producer. She grew up between Washington D.C. and Amman, Jordan and speaks English and Arabic fluently. Zein has been honored to produce many meaningful projects. Her feature documentary, Three Promises, is currently on the festival circuit. It won Best Documentary Feature at Camden International in 2023 and has screened at festivals such DOC NYC, True/False, Big Sky, Sheffield, Visions Du Reel, IDFA, and Ambulante, among others. Three of her narrative short films are currently in post-production. Zein aims to create and support art that uplifts underrepresented communities, with a special penchant for Middle Eastern and female-driven stories. She is currently Head of Development at Echobend Pictures in Los Angeles. She is also getting her MFA in Creative Producing from USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program and holds a BA in Political Psychology from Brown University. When she’s not working, Zein enjoys horseback riding, hiking, and singing.
LINE PRODUCER: ALECIA ORSINI
Alecia Orsini is an award winning and multimedia professional and Line Producer with 18+ years of experience working in the film industry. She is currently producing several films in the New England region. She has spent time as a Director, Production Designer, Graphic Designer, Camera Operator, and Voice Over Artist. Alecia is a prominent voice in the region's film community as President Emerita of Women in Film and Video of New England. She also devoted time to Save MA Film Jobs, working behind the scenes for the grassroots organization supporting the Film Tax Incentives in the state of Massachusetts. She's a staunch advocate, utilizing her experience and platform to amplify the voices of the underserved within the film industry such as women of color and members of the LGBTQI+ communities. In 2012 she was named one of the Cape & Plymouth Business 40 Under 40 for her volunteer work entrepreneurship and in 2019 she was named an Imagineer for her service to the film industry by Imagine Magazine. Aside from her professional work Alecia is a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, can drive a stick shift and is the proud mother of two rambunctious boys.