Our team is primarily made up of people of color. We see a lack of representation in the exploration of marriage through this lens. Our crew will be at least 50% female. Support us to increase & amplify representation on screen & behind the camera. Let’s do all that together while laughing!

Karla and Lawrence enjoyed working together as the married and divorced, then MARRIED and DIVORCED AGAIN, Remy and Christina on the soap opera Guiding Light. Lawrence was three years into his marriage, and Karla was about to get married. Creatively exploring the plight of newlyweds on screen, and going through it off screen made Karla and Lawrence very sensitive to the realities of marriage; both the challenges and the adventures…At the time, the underrepresentation of POCs was alarming, so in 2009,  Karla and Lawrence created Wed-Locked as a means of having their VOICES AND EXPERIENCES BE HEARD.

 

Today representation in media is slowly changing with the help of supportive audiences and content creators. Our team wants to seize this time in history to share our perspective. It seems evermore appropriate, resonant and necessary. Now, after years of being in relationships and experiencing REAL challenges, Lawrence and Karla feel they have much more to add to the story. And this time, it's not just Lawrence and Karla’s perspective. Our very diverse team consists of our co-directors Tina Huang and Malcolm Barrett. They add a very unique perspective as people of color, as well as representing both the feminine and masculine. The newlywed on the team is producer, Tricia Levesque, who helps refresh our insight of what it’s like to embark on this journey.

 

Our Hope is to ditch the romanticism of marriage and shine a light on the love. We think it’s important to reflect back to society a loving, healthy, and functioning relationship despite all the challenges that marriage can bring. 

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OUR CAMPAIGN GOAL is $12,000.00, which covers paying our awesome crew (properly), production, as well as post-production, and festival submissions. We are just beginning to fundraise so that we can be ready for our shoot in June 2017. We know. It's soon. But, as in any good marriage, we are up for the challenge...

 

Here's the budget breakdown: 

Crew                             $6,000.00

Equipment/Locations   $1,000.00

Set/Props/Permits         $1,000.00

Post Production            $3,000.00

Festival Submissions    $1,000.00

 

GOAL TOTAL           $12,000.00

 

Check out our Campaign Wishlist if you want to know more about each Goal Budget line item.

 

And since believe so deeply in Wed-Locked, we’re ready with your help to blow our Goal out of the water. Check out this upgraded, sophisticated, sexified budget. Here’s what happens when we meet our Stretch Goals:

 

If we receive $20k we can breathe easy. Production costs have a pesky way of creeping above budget. $20k lets us know that we will be definitely meet all of our production AND post-production costs. 

 

If we receive $25k we can hire the dancing girls! Not really. But this little budget boost will allow us to secure the locations and equipment that will make Wed-Locked  look supa dupa dope.

 

If we receive $30k+ we can MAKE MORE WED-LOCKED! Lawrence and Karla already have scripts for more episodes. This will allow us to re-invest your funds into the next season.

 

 

 

Karla Mosley - Producer, Writer, Actress (Denise) 

Karla, co-founder of 1:1 Productions, LLC., currently portrays 'Maya Avant Forrester', the first transgender lead character on broadcast TV (NAACP Image Award Nomination, GLAAD Award for the story). Co-creator and star of Room 8 for CBS.com. Other TV/Film: Angel From Hell, Hart of Dixie, TLC-Discovery Kids’ Hi-5, Law & Order: CI, Gossip Girl, Guiding Light and Burn After Reading. Theater: Expatriate (Culture Project), Travlin' (NYMPH), Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holliday (TUTS, The MUNY), Sophisticated Ladies with Maurice Hines (Arena Stage). Former board member of Covenant House, ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association and Philanthropic Director of Ammunition Theatre Company.

 

 

 

Lawrence Saint-Victor - Producer, Writer, Actor (Robert)

Lawrence, co-owner of SaintVictor Productions, hails from Spring Valley N.Y.  He  trained as an actor at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film at SUNY Purchase. His film and television credits can be seen here: http://www.imdb.me/lawrencesaintvictor. In 2009 Lawrence founded SaintVictor Productions (SVP). SVP's focus and mission is to create content that is diverse, uplifting, and to challenge the way we all see the world. Through SVP, Lawrence has written, produced and directed several short films and web series, including The Forgiven a short film that was an official selection at the Urban World Film Festival and Wed-Locked in 2009 which received rave reviews from BET and Uptown Magazine. In 2012 Lawrence landed a role on the number one Soap Opera in the world, The Bold and the Beautiful. Lawrence has not only acted on the show, but has also written episodes. Brad Bell (Executive Producer of Bold and Beautiful) loved the original Wed-Locked series created in 2009 so much that he hired Lawrence and  the co-creator of Wed-Locked Karla Mosley to create CBS's first sitcom for the web (Room 8), which is distributed through CBS.com. Lawrence is excited to jump back into the world of Wed-Locked, and with nearly ten years of marriage under his belt, he feels he has a lot to add to the story of marriage.

 

 

 

 

Tina Huang - Producer, Director 

Tina is an actor/director/writer/producer and co-founder of 1:1 Productions, LLC., whose mission is to champion women of color in front of and behind the camera. She is currently finishing post production on Xin; a short film she wrote, co-produced and co-stars in with Karla Mosley. She is also co-artistic director of Ammunition Theatre Company whose mission is to tell underrepresented stories on the stage and also serve local non-profit organizations in their community. She is most know for playing 'Susie Chang' on TNT's Rizzoli & Isles. Her other TV/Film credits can seen here: http://www.imdb.me/tinahuang. She has worked with co-director, Malcolm Barrett on multiple projects since graduating from NYU/Tisch and enjoys their dynamic together and work ethic. Tina is also married and feels very connected to the comedy of the reality of marriage in Wed-Locked and thinks it is very important to see more people of color on screen that will encourage and influence the next generation of content creators.

 

Tricia Levesque - Producer 

Tricia is a writer, lawyer, strategist, and co-owner of  SaintVictor Productions (SVP). She’s produced several short films with SVP and is in development for her own fitness web series, Trish Does, as well as Londonisms, a semi-autobiographical account of her time living in London and meeting her husband, Joel. Tricia believes it's important to create and support content that trandsends stereotypes and tropes for men, women, and POCs and loves that the Wed-Locked Tribe is committed to the same.  She's super stoked to be a part of Wed-Locked because the Team is awesome and because the show  represents the dynanism of marriage with incredible empathy and humor.  

 

 

 

Malcolm Barrett  - Director 

Malcolm has produced work with Karla Mosley & Tina Huang on many a project together since meeting and studying together at NYU including recently producing the short films Xin & Covered. He's also produced several music videos as well as his own short The Highs & Lows of Milo Brown which he also wrote. Barrett was in the Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, played 'Lem' in the ABC cult hit Better Off Ted, currently stars as 'Rufus' on NBC's Timeless from Shawn Ryan & Eric Kripke and recurs on AMC's Preacher from Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg. Malcolm began in theater, directing and producing for years before becoming a founding member of Ammunition Theatre Company (along with Tina & Karla) and since receiving an Ovation Award nomination for Best ensemble and an Ovation award win for best lead actor (The Recommendation).