This One Is For The Neighborhood
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
LGBTQ, Drama
Inspired by my family story, this film explores gentrification and erasure inviting us to define the meaning of home and to question what’s really underneath us after material things are gone. This film aims to build a bridge between my ancestors and successors before time washes it all away.
This One Is For The Neighborhood
Los Angeles, California | Film Short
LGBTQ, Drama
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Inspired by my family story, this film explores gentrification and erasure inviting us to define the meaning of home and to question what’s really underneath us after material things are gone. This film aims to build a bridge between my ancestors and successors before time washes it all away.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
A story that explores erasure, community, solitude, and the connection to home and to our surroundings.
The film challenges the definition of our essence as human beings and what’s beyond what we can see, feel, and sense.
Ben (they/them) arrived to Los Angeles a couple of months ago and just like many artists do when they are chasing their goals, they need to do all kinds of random jobs to sustain themselves, even the ones they have zero passion about.
While browsing Craigslist gigs, Ben finds a well-paid promising ad. When Ben calls, they soon find out that the job seems easy at first sight: painting a portrait of an older woman named Doña Vicky.
Since Doña Vicky moved into her new house, she hasn’t warmed up to the place yet and she’s expecting the painting helps. But Doña Vicky has a special assignment for Ben, she wants the painter to portray not just her face, but something more complex, her essence.
Soon after Ben starts the portrait, they struggle to fulfill Doña Vicky’s request of portraying her essence.
Ben will have to dig deeper to find the real connection to the work, bond with Doña Vicky when apparently they don't share anything in common, and finally close open circles that were drowning them down.
Like Doña Vicky in this film, I’m intending to preserve and hold the memories of my childhood and family in spaces that no longer exist.
We'll take advantage of the natural lighting and will use warm, soft colors during the day. At night, we'll play a lot with silhouettes, soft lights.
The exteriors and surroundings of the neighborhood would help inform this story.
My grandmother, Victoria, loved her amazing adobe house right in downtown Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, where I spent my childhood years (from 5 to 16). My mother turned my grandma’s garage into a candy shop.
I'd visit grandma every day after school, eat with her, play in her backyard, plant corn, nurture chickens and rabbits, and I would help with the family business in any capacity besides eating candy, the other part I spent at the dentist.
After my grandmother passed away, her daughters and sons decided to sell her house and the candy shop together for profit.
When I left my hometown at 17, the house was still intact. Every time I visited my hometown, the house remained intact, and this was for the last 10 years. In a way, the memories of my grandma’s house and her existed in some way.
The owner resold the house to someone else and they decided to take it down this year. An accountant bought the place to build offices.
Something so rooted in my memories vanished. But it's with this short that I want to explore that feeling of loss and honor my grandmother by capturing the story in this short film.
We hear stories about gentrification all the time and we can’t seize the magnitude of what’s at stake until we’re being affected directly. While we’re trying to bring awareness to the cause, we also want to tell a story of erasure, home, and growth. With a crew and cast mostly Queer, we want to discuss the intersection of queerness and belonging and how specific and universal it is.
In the system of demand and supply that we currently live in, gentrification is inevitable and the direct result of capitalism.
Gentrification isn’t only about memories, but about forced displacement and excluding low-income individuals and people of color.
COVID-19 GUIDELINES:
Safety is very important to us. We will be taking the precautions needed to keep everyone in our cast and crew safe.
All of our cast and crew are vaccinated. Testing will be made available for everyone.
Your support is important to us! Every dollar, share, or follow counts!
In contributing to this film, you’re supporting a diverse group of Queer/Trans affirming, indie filmmakers and you'll help to bring our vision to life.
Your contribution will help This One Is For The Neighborhood to complete production and ensure payment to cast and crew, and it will help us finish post-production. Your contribution will pay for:
SPREAD THE WORD!
The only way we will reach our crowdfunding goal is if we reach beyond our networks.
Please share our campaign via your social media, email, word-of-mouth, however you want! We can't do this without you!
Instagram: @neighborhoodshort
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Casting
Costs $1,250
To pay our actors.
Editing, Sound design, Color, Music
Costs $3,500
To pay our Sound Designer, Sound mixer, Colorist, Composer, and Editor.
Film festival submissions
Costs $350
To apply to film festivals and have more people watching it.
Production insurance
Costs $750
To protect our crew, talent, and equipment.
Catering
Costs $250
To combat the hangry-ness of our team.
Painting
Costs $400
To pay for the painting and bring the artistic vision alive.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Josslyn Glenn is an LA-based filmmaker dedicated to promoting nuanced representations of queer and trans people of color that have historically been under- and misrepresented in media. She is also the author of She Rotates with Pluto: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems and essayist on Medium. Her intersectional feminist praxis additionally applies to her activism, film curation at Outfest, and public speaking ranging in such topics as comprehensive/inclusive sexual education and institutional equity for QTBIPOC. She has worked on the likes of Netflix’s Disclosure and Con Todo’s Visions of Us.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
A story that explores erasure, community, solitude, and the connection to home and to our surroundings.
The film challenges the definition of our essence as human beings and what’s beyond what we can see, feel, and sense.
Ben (they/them) arrived to Los Angeles a couple of months ago and just like many artists do when they are chasing their goals, they need to do all kinds of random jobs to sustain themselves, even the ones they have zero passion about.
While browsing Craigslist gigs, Ben finds a well-paid promising ad. When Ben calls, they soon find out that the job seems easy at first sight: painting a portrait of an older woman named Doña Vicky.
Since Doña Vicky moved into her new house, she hasn’t warmed up to the place yet and she’s expecting the painting helps. But Doña Vicky has a special assignment for Ben, she wants the painter to portray not just her face, but something more complex, her essence.
Soon after Ben starts the portrait, they struggle to fulfill Doña Vicky’s request of portraying her essence.
Ben will have to dig deeper to find the real connection to the work, bond with Doña Vicky when apparently they don't share anything in common, and finally close open circles that were drowning them down.
Like Doña Vicky in this film, I’m intending to preserve and hold the memories of my childhood and family in spaces that no longer exist.
We'll take advantage of the natural lighting and will use warm, soft colors during the day. At night, we'll play a lot with silhouettes, soft lights.
The exteriors and surroundings of the neighborhood would help inform this story.
My grandmother, Victoria, loved her amazing adobe house right in downtown Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, where I spent my childhood years (from 5 to 16). My mother turned my grandma’s garage into a candy shop.
I'd visit grandma every day after school, eat with her, play in her backyard, plant corn, nurture chickens and rabbits, and I would help with the family business in any capacity besides eating candy, the other part I spent at the dentist.
After my grandmother passed away, her daughters and sons decided to sell her house and the candy shop together for profit.
When I left my hometown at 17, the house was still intact. Every time I visited my hometown, the house remained intact, and this was for the last 10 years. In a way, the memories of my grandma’s house and her existed in some way.
The owner resold the house to someone else and they decided to take it down this year. An accountant bought the place to build offices.
Something so rooted in my memories vanished. But it's with this short that I want to explore that feeling of loss and honor my grandmother by capturing the story in this short film.
We hear stories about gentrification all the time and we can’t seize the magnitude of what’s at stake until we’re being affected directly. While we’re trying to bring awareness to the cause, we also want to tell a story of erasure, home, and growth. With a crew and cast mostly Queer, we want to discuss the intersection of queerness and belonging and how specific and universal it is.
In the system of demand and supply that we currently live in, gentrification is inevitable and the direct result of capitalism.
Gentrification isn’t only about memories, but about forced displacement and excluding low-income individuals and people of color.
COVID-19 GUIDELINES:
Safety is very important to us. We will be taking the precautions needed to keep everyone in our cast and crew safe.
All of our cast and crew are vaccinated. Testing will be made available for everyone.
Your support is important to us! Every dollar, share, or follow counts!
In contributing to this film, you’re supporting a diverse group of Queer/Trans affirming, indie filmmakers and you'll help to bring our vision to life.
Your contribution will help This One Is For The Neighborhood to complete production and ensure payment to cast and crew, and it will help us finish post-production. Your contribution will pay for:
SPREAD THE WORD!
The only way we will reach our crowdfunding goal is if we reach beyond our networks.
Please share our campaign via your social media, email, word-of-mouth, however you want! We can't do this without you!
Instagram: @neighborhoodshort
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Casting
Costs $1,250
To pay our actors.
Editing, Sound design, Color, Music
Costs $3,500
To pay our Sound Designer, Sound mixer, Colorist, Composer, and Editor.
Film festival submissions
Costs $350
To apply to film festivals and have more people watching it.
Production insurance
Costs $750
To protect our crew, talent, and equipment.
Catering
Costs $250
To combat the hangry-ness of our team.
Painting
Costs $400
To pay for the painting and bring the artistic vision alive.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Josslyn Glenn is an LA-based filmmaker dedicated to promoting nuanced representations of queer and trans people of color that have historically been under- and misrepresented in media. She is also the author of She Rotates with Pluto: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems and essayist on Medium. Her intersectional feminist praxis additionally applies to her activism, film curation at Outfest, and public speaking ranging in such topics as comprehensive/inclusive sexual education and institutional equity for QTBIPOC. She has worked on the likes of Netflix’s Disclosure and Con Todo’s Visions of Us.