The Right Kind of Woman

Boston, Massachusetts | Series

Thriller, Crime

Mary Pursell

1 Campaigns | Massachusetts, United States

44 days :07 hrs :02 mins

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Goal: $15,000 for production

After years of infertility and pregnancy loss, a couple’s fight to build a family collides with the murder of a pregnant woman. As a Boston detective searches for answers, she uncovers a disturbing pattern and a question at the heart of it all: who gets to decide which families are deserving?

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to give voice to the invisible grief of infertility and pregnancy loss through a gripping psychological thriller, making audiences feel the love, loss, and resilience statistics cannot capture. With your support, that mission begins with Unfit, the pilot of The Right Kind of Woman.

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My wife and I spent years trying to build our family, navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, fertility treatments, hope, and heartbreak. I watched someone I love endure something we faced together, knowing I could never fully understand what she was carrying. Writing became the place where I could begin to make sense of the grief, fear, and helplessness I felt but couldn't put into words.

Through the process, I realized I wasn't just writing to understand my own grief. I was beginning to better understand hers. We were living the same experience, but we weren't always carrying it in the same way. In many ways, The Right Kind of Woman became a love letter to her.


I knew I didn't want to tell this story through a traditional drama. Grief can distort the way we think, reshape our relationships, and change the way we see the people around us. It can make us compare, resent, envy, and judge, convincing ourselves we know what someone else deserves without ever knowing their whole story.

A psychological thriller became the most visceral way to explore those emotions and ask what grief, love, and the fear of losing a family can make us capable of.

Infertility, pregnancy loss, IVF, donor conception, adoption, and other paths to parenthood are becoming more visible, but they are still rarely explored on screen with the complexity and humanity they deserve. I hope to honor those navigating this often invisible grief and perhaps help someone better understand what a person they love may be carrying in silence.

If The Right Kind of Woman helps even one person feel seen, understood, or a little less alone, it will have accomplished something far greater than entertainment.


Two women decide to have a baby.

They have no idea how much it will cost them.

Years of trying. Multiple miscarriages. A marriage buckling beneath the weight of a future that keeps disappearing.

Then, a pregnant woman is found murdered inside a Boston hospital.

Except she isn't pregnant anymore. And there is no baby.

The homicide detective assigned to her murder can't let it go. She begins pulling at cases no one else wants connected. Pregnant women who disappeared. Bodies recovered. Deaths dismissed as overdoses, childbirth complications, tragic coincidences.

She doesn't see coincidence. She sees a pattern.

She has gotten this close before. It nearly killed her and left her partner in a coma.







As the mystery deepens, past and present begin to bleed together. Hope. Loss. A marriage coming apart. The case becomes inseparable from everything she's lost.

Just when she thinks she's getting closer, she meets someone who seems to know far more than she should.

Charming. Unsettling. Impossible to read.

Someone knows what happened to these women.

What she doesn't know is how close they've already gotten to her.







We’re raising funds to produce Unfit, the pilot episode of The Right Kind of Woman, the first chapter of a larger psychological thriller series.

Filming in Massachusetts throughout fall and winter 2026–2027, our goal is to create a gripping, cinematic pilot that stands on its own while opening the door to a much larger story.

This campaign will help us take Unfit from the page to the screen, bring a new original series to life right here in Massachusetts, and give The Right Kind of Woman the strongest possible foundation to grow beyond the pilot.





Infertility affects roughly 1 in 6 people worldwide. But numbers alone cannot capture what it means to live through it.

The waiting. The treatments. The losses. The strain on relationships. The grief of a future you could already see suddenly disappearing.

The Right Kind of Woman brings those experiences into an unexpected space: a psychological thriller.The genre allows us to explore how the desire to build a family can shape us, test us, change the way we see ourselves and others, and challenge what we believe love can make us capable of.

These stories deserve to be seen as more than statistics. They deserve to be felt.

A 10-day independent pilot takes more than a great script. It takes the people, tools, locations, and resources to bring that story to life.

Every contribution goes directly toward producing Unfit, helping fund our crew, equipment, locations, production design, sound, insurance, post-production, and more.

Some members of our cast and creative team are generously contributing their time and talent to help make this pilot possible. The more we raise, the more we can put back into the production, support the people bringing it to life, and give them the resources to do their best work.

OUR CAMPAIGN GOAL: $15,000

$15,000 gives us the foundation we need to move Unfit into production, but it does not cover everything this pilot needs.

It helps us fund essential production costs and get cameras rolling. Every dollar we raise beyond that gives us more room to strengthen what appears on screen, carry the pilot through post-production, and invest more in the people bringing it to life.



The further we go, the more freedom we have to make creative decisions based on what serves the story, not simply what the budget allows.

The Right Kind of Woman began with something deeply personal, but we know this experience belongs to far more people than just us.

Whether you have lived through infertility or pregnancy loss yourself, stood beside someone who has, or simply believe in the power of independent stories to make people feel something, we hope you will help us bring Unfit to life.

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CAMERA & LENSES

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Lenses, monitoring, support gear, accessories, and additional equipment needed to build out our camera package for the 10-day shoot.

LIGHTING & GRIP

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Lighting and grip equipment, crew, and support needed to shape the dark, atmospheric visual world of the pilot.

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Meals, snacks, coffee, and drinks to keep our cast and crew fed and fueled throughout our 10-day shoot.

LOCATIONS AND PERMITS

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Location fees and permits needed to secure the spaces that bring the world of the pilot to life.

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