This Is All You Are
New York City, New York | Film Short
Drama, Family
Tell me about your mother. Tell me in minutes what has taken you years to learn. Is she more question, or answer? Is she your mirror, or your foil? If there is any common ground between us, then your mother is like mine – she is both, and more.
This Is All You Are
New York City, New York | Film Short
Drama, Family
Green Light
This campaign raised $5,105 for production. Follow the filmmaker to receive future updates on this project.
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Tell me about your mother. Tell me in minutes what has taken you years to learn. Is she more question, or answer? Is she your mirror, or your foil? If there is any common ground between us, then your mother is like mine – she is both, and more.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Judy and her mother live in a two-person world, isolated together and constantly seeking something from the other. Judy, a competitive swimmer, searches for a warmth and connection behind her mother’s heavy expectations. Her mother, the coach, believes the only way for Judy to reach her full potential is for her to keep her distance, but her past still begins to drip into their relationship.
The two main visual elements of this film are cinematography and 35mm still photography – our director and members of our team have passions and experiences in both – which will be woven together for an immersive yet stylised experience of memory.
Judy and her mother feel trapped together – we almost always see them in the same frame. But this in itself is also a type of closeness. Our cinematography will have a bleach bypass look, drawing out the texture in our leads’ faces, while also instilling each scene with a coldness.
Scenes with Ruth and Judy will have more separation, more elasticity. They are, for the most part, sorting through Judy’s memories – wading through them – and so there will be some form of water between, on, or around them in all their scenes.
Above stills from our DP, Jason Wang's, past cinematography work!
High contrast 35mm analog stills that recur throughout the film at crucial moments. The images have multiple iterations, each sharpening in focus until the last moment where we see what it is that has been, in a way, haunting the film. The failure and focus of memory. Film stills have an ingrained (ha) texture to them that is unique to the medium – when you boil a memory down to one moment, you still feel them. That’s what film can do.
Above film photographs are examples of our director's black and white photography.
Now we’re at the point where we talk about the expenses of filmmaking (I know, I know). To lighten the mood, we’ve made a fun breakdown of where we will be allocating the funds we raise:
Any surplus funds will be put directly towards post-production, festival submissions, and getting all your lovely incentive gifts to you safely!
Your pledge now will support us through the remainder of pre-production until the end of shooting for ‘This Is All You Are.’
After we wrap filming, we will go directly into post-production and then onto festival submissions. After the festival circuit, we will share a password-protected link with you to enjoy the film as we decide where the film will premiere online. Finally, ‘This Is All You Are’ will be posted publicly for everyone (and their mother) to experience forever.
1. FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA.
Be sure to follow us here on Seed&Spark, but also on good ol’ Instagram. Encourage your friends, your families, your dog accounts, your finstas – we want to share this film with all of you.
2. SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT US.
Share our posts, campaign page, and our backer updates! And to make it even easier, here’s a quick post to copy and paste:
Help @thisisallyouare and a group of independent filmmakers by supporting the narrative project #thisisallyouarefilm on @seedandspark! Join them here: www.seedandspark.com/fund/this-is-all-you-are
3. CALL YOUR MUM.
No, seriously. Go tell her you love her, because you probably do. Go tell her you miss her, because she probably misses you.
(And then tell her about this cool film).
(This applies to any equivalent guardian figure).
Thank you for joining us, we are so excited to make this film a reality with you.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Pool
Costs $500
A pool is central to Judy's character and developing relationship with her mother.
Camera/G&E
Costs $1,300
Help us make this the most visually beautiful (and properly insured) film it can be.
Production Design
Costs $200
We want to make this house a home for Judy and her mother – help us do that here!
Transport & Travel
Costs $1,400
You gotta get there before you can do anything. Help us get there (literally speaking).
Food
Costs $1,200
Happy stomachs, happy crew. Help us keep morale up by having the best food ever.
Stunts
Costs $50
We have a couple stunts that we want to deliver to you as effectively and safely as possible!
Festival Submissions
Costs $200
Help us get our film out into the world after we finish it!
Insurance
Costs $200
Help keep our cast, crew, and equipment safe and insured! No one should have to worry about safety.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Though our film centralises around a world of two-people, the actual family behind this film is made of many lovely humans. We are a team of WOC-led creatives based in NYC with the majority of our heads of departments being women which is important to the director not only for representation, but because of the welcoming and safe environment we have created.
Winona Lu is a director, cinematographer, and writer born in Australia and raised in an immigrant family. The sensibilities that her upbringing instilled in her are sewn throughout their current film, ‘This Is All You Are.’ Winona is currently a junior at NYU Tisch studying Film & TV production and hopes to continue developing their filmmaking skill sets – whether producing, directing, writing, or DPing – in NYC for many years to come. She is beyond stoked to bring this story to you all, it’s a dear one.
Mir Lien is a producer, director, and creative visionary based in New York City. She is currently a junior at NYU studying Film & TV, where she has applied her wide range of skills on numerous sets, from pre-production to grip & electric to camera. She became well-known for her work as a producer, most recently on the short film, “Did You Eat Yet?”. With a passion for her art, finely honed abilities, and a passion for creating safe and equitable spaces, Mir continues to work tirelessly to ameliorate people’s talents, passions, and dreams and make them shine on the screen.
Nas Aidid is a Writer, Director, Actress and Producer, from Copenhagen, Denmark with Somali roots. She is currently a senior at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, focusing on film and theater and has a minor in philosophy. She has extensive directing and writing experience with her first short film being accepted to Cannes Film Festivals’ ‘Short Film Corner’. She is in post-production with her latest film ‘The White Rabbit’. She has written various plays, and done a one man show. She is currently developing her own independent play ‘Who was hung this morning and is she still Alive’ for her last semester. She is excited to be working with Winona Lu on ‘This is all you are’.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Judy and her mother live in a two-person world, isolated together and constantly seeking something from the other. Judy, a competitive swimmer, searches for a warmth and connection behind her mother’s heavy expectations. Her mother, the coach, believes the only way for Judy to reach her full potential is for her to keep her distance, but her past still begins to drip into their relationship.
The two main visual elements of this film are cinematography and 35mm still photography – our director and members of our team have passions and experiences in both – which will be woven together for an immersive yet stylised experience of memory.
Judy and her mother feel trapped together – we almost always see them in the same frame. But this in itself is also a type of closeness. Our cinematography will have a bleach bypass look, drawing out the texture in our leads’ faces, while also instilling each scene with a coldness.
Scenes with Ruth and Judy will have more separation, more elasticity. They are, for the most part, sorting through Judy’s memories – wading through them – and so there will be some form of water between, on, or around them in all their scenes.
Above stills from our DP, Jason Wang's, past cinematography work!
High contrast 35mm analog stills that recur throughout the film at crucial moments. The images have multiple iterations, each sharpening in focus until the last moment where we see what it is that has been, in a way, haunting the film. The failure and focus of memory. Film stills have an ingrained (ha) texture to them that is unique to the medium – when you boil a memory down to one moment, you still feel them. That’s what film can do.
Above film photographs are examples of our director's black and white photography.
Now we’re at the point where we talk about the expenses of filmmaking (I know, I know). To lighten the mood, we’ve made a fun breakdown of where we will be allocating the funds we raise:
Any surplus funds will be put directly towards post-production, festival submissions, and getting all your lovely incentive gifts to you safely!
Your pledge now will support us through the remainder of pre-production until the end of shooting for ‘This Is All You Are.’
After we wrap filming, we will go directly into post-production and then onto festival submissions. After the festival circuit, we will share a password-protected link with you to enjoy the film as we decide where the film will premiere online. Finally, ‘This Is All You Are’ will be posted publicly for everyone (and their mother) to experience forever.
1. FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA.
Be sure to follow us here on Seed&Spark, but also on good ol’ Instagram. Encourage your friends, your families, your dog accounts, your finstas – we want to share this film with all of you.
2. SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT US.
Share our posts, campaign page, and our backer updates! And to make it even easier, here’s a quick post to copy and paste:
Help @thisisallyouare and a group of independent filmmakers by supporting the narrative project #thisisallyouarefilm on @seedandspark! Join them here: www.seedandspark.com/fund/this-is-all-you-are
3. CALL YOUR MUM.
No, seriously. Go tell her you love her, because you probably do. Go tell her you miss her, because she probably misses you.
(And then tell her about this cool film).
(This applies to any equivalent guardian figure).
Thank you for joining us, we are so excited to make this film a reality with you.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Pool
Costs $500
A pool is central to Judy's character and developing relationship with her mother.
Camera/G&E
Costs $1,300
Help us make this the most visually beautiful (and properly insured) film it can be.
Production Design
Costs $200
We want to make this house a home for Judy and her mother – help us do that here!
Transport & Travel
Costs $1,400
You gotta get there before you can do anything. Help us get there (literally speaking).
Food
Costs $1,200
Happy stomachs, happy crew. Help us keep morale up by having the best food ever.
Stunts
Costs $50
We have a couple stunts that we want to deliver to you as effectively and safely as possible!
Festival Submissions
Costs $200
Help us get our film out into the world after we finish it!
Insurance
Costs $200
Help keep our cast, crew, and equipment safe and insured! No one should have to worry about safety.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Though our film centralises around a world of two-people, the actual family behind this film is made of many lovely humans. We are a team of WOC-led creatives based in NYC with the majority of our heads of departments being women which is important to the director not only for representation, but because of the welcoming and safe environment we have created.
Winona Lu is a director, cinematographer, and writer born in Australia and raised in an immigrant family. The sensibilities that her upbringing instilled in her are sewn throughout their current film, ‘This Is All You Are.’ Winona is currently a junior at NYU Tisch studying Film & TV production and hopes to continue developing their filmmaking skill sets – whether producing, directing, writing, or DPing – in NYC for many years to come. She is beyond stoked to bring this story to you all, it’s a dear one.
Mir Lien is a producer, director, and creative visionary based in New York City. She is currently a junior at NYU studying Film & TV, where she has applied her wide range of skills on numerous sets, from pre-production to grip & electric to camera. She became well-known for her work as a producer, most recently on the short film, “Did You Eat Yet?”. With a passion for her art, finely honed abilities, and a passion for creating safe and equitable spaces, Mir continues to work tirelessly to ameliorate people’s talents, passions, and dreams and make them shine on the screen.
Nas Aidid is a Writer, Director, Actress and Producer, from Copenhagen, Denmark with Somali roots. She is currently a senior at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, focusing on film and theater and has a minor in philosophy. She has extensive directing and writing experience with her first short film being accepted to Cannes Film Festivals’ ‘Short Film Corner’. She is in post-production with her latest film ‘The White Rabbit’. She has written various plays, and done a one man show. She is currently developing her own independent play ‘Who was hung this morning and is she still Alive’ for her last semester. She is excited to be working with Winona Lu on ‘This is all you are’.