UR KILLING ME
Los Angeles, California | Series
Comedy
Three Gen-Z friends decide they've had enough of their friend's backhanded compliments and settle on the easiest solution: murder!
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Three Gen-Z friends decide they've had enough of their friend's backhanded compliments and settle on the easiest solution: murder!
About The Project
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Mission Statement
The Story
In a city filled with ambition and hollow relationships, this project was born out of our desire to reckon with how to be a good friend when it feels like that no longer is valued in today’s culture, and how culpable we are in that.
UR KILLING ME will be exploring the theme of friendship. For young people just out of college, your friends are your family...Except without the unconditional love. So how do you tolerate the people in your life you can’t live without, but want to kill? And what’s harder? Tolerating them? or realizing you might just be the problem?
When AMANDA gets promoted to run the Friendship Column at Fizzy Issue (think Buzzfeed but with pastels), she has her three best friends, CHRISTIAN, MADDIE, AND LEILA, over to celebrate. Throughout this dinner though, as her idiosyncrasies and successes in life grate on them more and more, they reveal that they don’t like Amanda at all—they hate her. In fact, they want her dead. With Amanda outside of the room, they all vow to plot her murder. Christian, Maddie, and Leila then come up with hair-brained schemes to get rid of Amanda. They vary from digging holes, sicking a rabid but lovable racoon named Albert on her, and having a little too much fun at an office Christmas party. But all of the attempts have the opposite effect—Amanda now has a boyfriend and a large following on socials due to all of the trauma she has survived. No matter how hard they try, their friend is just no match for them!
The characters in this series go on this same journey, albeit through three convoluted attempts at murder. But as dramatic of a reaction this may be, we feel this highlights the quieter notion that no one is completely likeable or completely not likeable, and all we can do is accept people in that gray area. For everyone who annoys us, there is someone we annoy. There’s both relief and growth in that, and we hope that it’s a lesson people can apply not just to friendships, but all aspects of their life.
Meet Amanda: Prime influencer type. The queen bee of queen bees. Her compliments always manage to have a critique in them. She really is trying to be a good friend, but she can't help that she's better than you.
Meet Maddie: The ultimate hater. But let’s face it, she says what you’re thinking. Loves you, but fantasizes about killing you. She and Amanda met when growing up on the same block as kids, and the rest…is history.
Meet Christian: The most hopeful out of the group. He’s a great friend and hard worker…at least that’s what he tells himself. He was brought into the friend group after he met Amanda at work, and quickly fell in love/hate with her.
Meet Leila: A mystical, ethereal, good soul who is aware of nothing we know, and everything we don’t. Think Phoebe Buffay if she had a cell phone. She’s the friend in the group who’s always on a side quest. Maddie and Amanda found her on Facebook Marketplace when they needed an extra roommate, and she’s been a witness and victim of Amanda’s doings ever since.
Michael and Sarah are friends who always knew they wanted to write something together. UR KILLING ME was born out wanting to explore the unique time in your 20’s when you love your friends, but you don’t exactly like them. Through this comedic lens they explore how much of that is rooted in dislike for others, or dislike in one’s self. The hope is to let their audience know they’re not alone when coming to terms with friendships ending. The hope is to shed comedic light on this relatable topic, and with everything going on in the world, hopefully UR KILLING ME can bring some light to the darkness, as comedy so often does.
The money pledged towards this project will go to funding all aspects of production. We'll be able to hire cast, crew, procure gear rentals, and book locations.
The absolute minimum we need to raise is $8000 for this campaign.
If we raise $10,000, we'll be able to cover the costs of travel and lodging for out of state cast or crew.
If we raise $12,000, we'll be able to pay for original scoring. Yay music!
If we raise $15,000, we'll be able to pay for sound mixing + editing.
If we raise $20,000, we'll be able to pay for future marketing, distribution, and festival submissions so more people get to see UR KILLING ME.
Wishlist
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Cast & Crew
Costs $5,000
We can't have a series if we don't have cast and crew!
Rentals
Costs $2,000
Rentals include locations, camera gear, lighting, and more!
Food Services
Costs $1,000
This will help us provide nutritious and much needed food on set.
Post-Production
Costs $2,000
Once filming is done, we need to hire an editor, sound designer, and more!
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About This Team
Writer / Creator- Michael Iannaconi
Michael Iannaconi is an award winning LGBTQ+ comedy and drama writer from New Jersey. He recently won Best Scripted Digital Series at the 2024 Austin Film Festival for a script he co-wrote entitled UR KILLING ME. In the same festival, his script I’M DONE WITH MEN! placed as a semi-finalist, and he was one of 24 finalists out of 200 participants in the festival’s 90 Second Pitch Festival. He is currently the showrunner’s assistant on the upcoming SCOOBY-DOO live-action series at Netflix. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Radio/TV/Film and Creative Writing programs, Michael is interested in telling off-color, frank stories about complicated, funny characters.
Writer / Creator - Sarah Moen
The New York native most recently wrapped on NCIS: TONY & ZIVA as the writer’s assistant where she gained her first credit as co-writer of episode 109, Ride or Die. Prior to this, she was the showrunner's assistant on Paramount+’s TULSA KING starring Sylvester Stallone. It feels like just yesterday she graduated from NYU Tisch where she studied Dramatic Writing. Sarah continues to write original scripts, mainly focusing on female anti-heroes like in her sample BLUJAY, and she looks forward to working on her next show.
Producer - Aech Hanratty
Aech Hanratty (they/them) has held many hats over their years in the industry from producer to writer, director to editor. After graduating from Hunter College with a degree in Film studies, they went on to hit millions of views with their video work for various digital media companies such as BuzzFeed, Real Simple, The New York Times, and more. Shifting gears into more narrative work, they’ve produced, written, and directed a 5 episode mini series “What Remains” which releases in 2026. They’ve also produced feature film, “Affirmation,” starring Chris Mulkey (Twin Peaks) and Christopher Stanley (Mad Men).
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Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
In a city filled with ambition and hollow relationships, this project was born out of our desire to reckon with how to be a good friend when it feels like that no longer is valued in today’s culture, and how culpable we are in that.
UR KILLING ME will be exploring the theme of friendship. For young people just out of college, your friends are your family...Except without the unconditional love. So how do you tolerate the people in your life you can’t live without, but want to kill? And what’s harder? Tolerating them? or realizing you might just be the problem?
When AMANDA gets promoted to run the Friendship Column at Fizzy Issue (think Buzzfeed but with pastels), she has her three best friends, CHRISTIAN, MADDIE, AND LEILA, over to celebrate. Throughout this dinner though, as her idiosyncrasies and successes in life grate on them more and more, they reveal that they don’t like Amanda at all—they hate her. In fact, they want her dead. With Amanda outside of the room, they all vow to plot her murder. Christian, Maddie, and Leila then come up with hair-brained schemes to get rid of Amanda. They vary from digging holes, sicking a rabid but lovable racoon named Albert on her, and having a little too much fun at an office Christmas party. But all of the attempts have the opposite effect—Amanda now has a boyfriend and a large following on socials due to all of the trauma she has survived. No matter how hard they try, their friend is just no match for them!
The characters in this series go on this same journey, albeit through three convoluted attempts at murder. But as dramatic of a reaction this may be, we feel this highlights the quieter notion that no one is completely likeable or completely not likeable, and all we can do is accept people in that gray area. For everyone who annoys us, there is someone we annoy. There’s both relief and growth in that, and we hope that it’s a lesson people can apply not just to friendships, but all aspects of their life.
Meet Amanda: Prime influencer type. The queen bee of queen bees. Her compliments always manage to have a critique in them. She really is trying to be a good friend, but she can't help that she's better than you.
Meet Maddie: The ultimate hater. But let’s face it, she says what you’re thinking. Loves you, but fantasizes about killing you. She and Amanda met when growing up on the same block as kids, and the rest…is history.
Meet Christian: The most hopeful out of the group. He’s a great friend and hard worker…at least that’s what he tells himself. He was brought into the friend group after he met Amanda at work, and quickly fell in love/hate with her.
Meet Leila: A mystical, ethereal, good soul who is aware of nothing we know, and everything we don’t. Think Phoebe Buffay if she had a cell phone. She’s the friend in the group who’s always on a side quest. Maddie and Amanda found her on Facebook Marketplace when they needed an extra roommate, and she’s been a witness and victim of Amanda’s doings ever since.
Michael and Sarah are friends who always knew they wanted to write something together. UR KILLING ME was born out wanting to explore the unique time in your 20’s when you love your friends, but you don’t exactly like them. Through this comedic lens they explore how much of that is rooted in dislike for others, or dislike in one’s self. The hope is to let their audience know they’re not alone when coming to terms with friendships ending. The hope is to shed comedic light on this relatable topic, and with everything going on in the world, hopefully UR KILLING ME can bring some light to the darkness, as comedy so often does.
The money pledged towards this project will go to funding all aspects of production. We'll be able to hire cast, crew, procure gear rentals, and book locations.
The absolute minimum we need to raise is $8000 for this campaign.
If we raise $10,000, we'll be able to cover the costs of travel and lodging for out of state cast or crew.
If we raise $12,000, we'll be able to pay for original scoring. Yay music!
If we raise $15,000, we'll be able to pay for sound mixing + editing.
If we raise $20,000, we'll be able to pay for future marketing, distribution, and festival submissions so more people get to see UR KILLING ME.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cast & Crew
Costs $5,000
We can't have a series if we don't have cast and crew!
Rentals
Costs $2,000
Rentals include locations, camera gear, lighting, and more!
Food Services
Costs $1,000
This will help us provide nutritious and much needed food on set.
Post-Production
Costs $2,000
Once filming is done, we need to hire an editor, sound designer, and more!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Writer / Creator- Michael Iannaconi
Michael Iannaconi is an award winning LGBTQ+ comedy and drama writer from New Jersey. He recently won Best Scripted Digital Series at the 2024 Austin Film Festival for a script he co-wrote entitled UR KILLING ME. In the same festival, his script I’M DONE WITH MEN! placed as a semi-finalist, and he was one of 24 finalists out of 200 participants in the festival’s 90 Second Pitch Festival. He is currently the showrunner’s assistant on the upcoming SCOOBY-DOO live-action series at Netflix. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Radio/TV/Film and Creative Writing programs, Michael is interested in telling off-color, frank stories about complicated, funny characters.
Writer / Creator - Sarah Moen
The New York native most recently wrapped on NCIS: TONY & ZIVA as the writer’s assistant where she gained her first credit as co-writer of episode 109, Ride or Die. Prior to this, she was the showrunner's assistant on Paramount+’s TULSA KING starring Sylvester Stallone. It feels like just yesterday she graduated from NYU Tisch where she studied Dramatic Writing. Sarah continues to write original scripts, mainly focusing on female anti-heroes like in her sample BLUJAY, and she looks forward to working on her next show.
Producer - Aech Hanratty
Aech Hanratty (they/them) has held many hats over their years in the industry from producer to writer, director to editor. After graduating from Hunter College with a degree in Film studies, they went on to hit millions of views with their video work for various digital media companies such as BuzzFeed, Real Simple, The New York Times, and more. Shifting gears into more narrative work, they’ve produced, written, and directed a 5 episode mini series “What Remains” which releases in 2026. They’ve also produced feature film, “Affirmation,” starring Chris Mulkey (Twin Peaks) and Christopher Stanley (Mad Men).