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Hey, I'm Eva MeiLing!
Los Angeles, California
Eva MeiLing Pollitt is a Colorado-born and raised writer/director who has also lived and worked in Dallas, Brooklyn, France, Russia, and China. She has written and directed four shorts that have screened in festivals in NYC, Colorado, and Los Angeles. Her pilot High was a finalist in the 2019 Barnstorm fest among other competitions, as was her short script Clatterz. Her one-acts and plays have been produced in Dallas and Off-Off Broadway. She studied film at ESRA in Paris and theatre and languages at SMU in Dallas.
My Projects
High
Tabernash, Colorado• Film Short
Drama, Experimental
An unnerved young mother and a footloose ski bum unearth suppressed desires in a hazardous twist of encounters.
This project got the green light!
T'es Belle
Paris, France• Film Short
Drama
A surreal dark dramedy about online dating during the pandemic and a misguided search for love, set in a romantic city under lockdown.
This project got the green light!
Projects I'm Supporting
T'es Belle
Paris, France• Film Short
Drama
A surreal dark dramedy about online dating during the pandemic and a misguided search for love, set in a romantic city under lockdown.
This project got the green light!
Escaping Ohio
Akron, Ohio• Film Short
Romantic Comedy, Adventure
When Sam is ready to escape to California, JJ has 24-hrs to prove why Ohio – and JJ & Sam’s future together– is worth sticking around for.
This project got the green light!
You Follow Me
New York City, New York• Series
Comedy
Bekah & Sam are actors navigating life with the worst scene partners of all - Hal & Paul AKA two invisible pesky conditions.
This project got the green light!
Drought
Wilmington, North Carolina• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
The summer after high school, Sam searches for a better life for herself and younger brother with Autism.
This project got the green light!
Oniphron
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, Fantasy
A tale about a homeless immortal woman taken in by a Portlander.
This project got the green light!
White Crow
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Mystery, Thriller
A sickly young woman's life unravels when she receives a heart transplant and begins to take on her donor's personality traits.
This project got the green light!
RUNAROUND SUE
Natchitoches, Louisiana• Film Feature
Drama, Music
RUNAROUND SUE is a small-town Southern bartender known for breaking hearts... until THE WANDERER comes to town.
This project got the green light!
Alpha Female Films - A New Brand of Content
New York City, New York• Company
Comedy, Drama
An Intersectional Queer Film Production Company presents its inaugural two short films and feature-length film.
This project got the green light!
Deserters
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama
At an engagement celebration, an ex-nihilo woman confronts the boundaries of loyalty when her affluent in-laws' secrets come to light.
This project got the green light!
Miles Underwater
San Antonio, Texas• Film Feature
Drama, Family
13-year-old Miles is struggling to find where he belongs when an unusual event forces him to face his biggest fear and take a leap of faith.
This project got the green light!
Multiverse
New York City, New York• Film Short
Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Joanne gets a new perspective on a big life decision when she falls for Trudy, a vampire for whom all possible universes are reality.
This project got the green light!
Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema
New York City, New York• Film Festival
Film-related Business, Shorts Program
Show us your film. We'll show you success.
This project got the green light!
Pozole
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Comedy, Drama
Maia prolly killed her Nana.
This project got the green light!
XJW | Coming Out of the Jehovah's Witness Religion
Denver, Colorado• Series
Documentary, Global Celebration
XJW | Coming Out of the Jehovah's Witness Religion Documentary Series
This project got the green light!
2 WEEKS
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Horror
2 WEEKS accompanies Tanya as she explores what it means to be asexual in a committed relationship and an actor in a “sex sells” world.
This project got the green light!
Wise Gals
Boston, Massachusetts• Film Short
Crime, Drama
In an alternate 1980s underground, organized crime is ruled by women. Up-and-coming mobster Sophia is ready to take the throne.
This project got the green light!
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Always A Thorn
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama, Crime
Two teenagers, Two police officers, stereotypes and tensions collide, who will survive?
This project got the green light!
Marisol
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Foreign Film
When a young mother takes a risk to provide for her daughter, a stranger turns her transgression into a nightmare.
This project got the green light!
Cranes, Mafiosos and a Polaroid Camera
Kearney, Buffalo County• Film Short
Drama, Experimental
A paranoid late night phone call becomes a reflection on nature and death, in the calm expanse of a crane sanctuary.
This project got the green light!
The Mile Ground
Morgantown, West Virginia• Film Feature
Drama, Mystery
The contents of a strange safety deposit box send an opioid addict down a risky road that will lead to her redemption or final destruction
This project got the green light!
The Cold Days of Summer
Utica, New York• Film Feature
Crime, Drama
A boxer battles injury, criminals, and an authoritarian school board to save his scholarship and learn the true cost of the American dream
This project got the green light!
Emma Was Here
Medford, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama
A terminally-ill woman goes on a trip with friends before deciding whether she will go through with her choice of physician-assisted dying.
This project got the green light!
Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry
Duluth, Minnesota• Film Feature
Adventure, Comedy
An opportunistic asshole joins the quest of a delusional man who thinks he’s in a fantasy world.
This project got the green light!
AUGGIE
Fairfield, Connecticut• Film Feature
Drama, Sci-Fi
Forced into early retirement, a man falls in love with his new augmented reality companion, driving away his wife and daughter.
This project got the green light!
Give And Take
Asheville, North Carolina• Film Feature
Comedy, Documentary
In this sincere comedy about parenting, a father who's lost custody of his rebellious daughter kidnaps her in a plan to save her future.
This project got the green light!
LION KILLER
Houston, Texas• Film Feature
Drama
Fighting Solves Everything
This project got the green light!
Parallel Chords
St. Louis, Missouri• Film Feature
Drama, Music
A young violinist struggles to break free from her pianist father to find her own voice.
This project got the green light!
The Way It Goes
Shawnee, Johnson County• Film Feature
Comedy, Romantic Comedy
Sometimes life just doesn't go as planned.
This project got the green light!
The Inner Edge
Old Bridge Township, New Jersey• Film Feature
Drama, Fantasy
A NJ cop struggling with changes in her life, has to save a suicidal stranger to unlock what powers lie within her.
This project got the green light!
Between Heaven and Hell
Riverside, California• Film Feature
Drama, Fantasy
On 11/22/63, John F. Kennedy, CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died within moments of each other and meet in a place “somewhere beyond death”
This project got the green light!
Project Gaslight
Rochester, Minnesota• Film Feature
Horror, Thriller
New tenants harbor a secret that jeopardizes a young family as the pregnant wife descends into paranoia and delusion.
This project got the green light!
The MisEducation of Bindu
Indianapolis, Indiana• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
Thrust into American public school by her mother’s new marriage, a wide-eyed Indian teen teams up with a band geek to survive.
This project got the green light!
Lost Bayou
Lafayette, Louisiana• Film Feature
Drama, Family
A struggling addict ventures out into the Louisiana swamp to discover that her estranged faith healer father is hiding a troubling secret.
This project got the green light!
Little Evil Bookshop
Seattle, Washington• Film Feature
Comedy, Satire
When the world's most powerful occult leader visits a modest mystic bookshop, its owner must impress him at all costs.
This project got the green light!
Stormie
Santa Maria, California• Film Feature
Biography, Drama
An adopted Hispanic teenager looks for his birth family in an attempt to find his place of belonging.
This project got the green light!
Bring Me an Avocado
San Francisco, California• Film Feature
Drama
When a violent encounter leaves Robin in a coma, her family ventures to maintain normalcy for her children while managing their own grief.
This project got the green light!
A Room Full of Nothing
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Adventure, Romance
In this Swiss Army Man meets Eternal Sunshine adventure an artistic couple's life takes a bizarre turn when they wake up alone in the world.
This project got the green light!
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nēar
Stockton, California• Film Feature
Crime, Drama
"nēar" follows 17-year-old Julian upon his escape from the hospital on Christmas Eve, the day which is literally the last day of his life.
This project got the green light!
The Place in Between
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
What could possibly go wrong when a mom and her teenage daughter meet for the first time on a road trip across TX? . . . Everything.
This project got the green light!
I'll Be Around
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, Comedy
Against the backdrop of a post-punk music festival, a handful of 30-somethings deal with a wide variety of social and philosophical issues
This project got the green light!
ACID TEST (feature development)
Houston, Texas• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
The absurdly dramatic coming-of-age story of a teenage girl who launches a rebellion when she drops acid and goes home to her parents.
This project got the green light!
This Is Our Home
Media, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Drama, Thriller
A struggling couple's weekend getaway goes awry when a child arrives in the middle of the night claiming he's their son.
This project got the green light!
High Note
Friday Harbor, Washington• Film Feature
Crime, Musical
Just your everyday druggie, dramedy, indie musical filled to the brim with Germans, Jesus, banjos, bongos, and backstabbings.
This project got the green light!
Test: A Classic American Story....On Steroids
New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County• Film Feature
Sport, LGBTQ
A young bodybuilder living in Ohio defies his religious mother when he follows the county's best coach into a world of steroid abuse
This project got the green light!
The Atavist
Pittsfield, Berkshire County• Film Feature
Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young woman travels to the past, but when the things she leaves alter history, she must get them back to save the future.
This project got the green light!
D.I.Y.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Comedy, LGBTQ
A queer couple is determined to tie the knot their own way.
This project got the green light!
Big Dog City
San Francisco, California• Film Feature
Drama, Other
Set within Bay Area art/slacker culture, we follow two characters as they weave across a place and identity which doesn't fit them anymore.
This project got the green light!
What Lies West
Santa Rosa, California• Film Feature
Adventure, Drama
Two girls desperate to create their own adventure set out into the wilderness of California on a daring hike to the coast.
This project got the green light!
"SURE-FIRE" - Development Funding Phase II
New York City, New York• Film Feature
Comedy, Crime
SURE-FIRE is a comedy about a NYC con man having a mid-life crisis who stumbles into becoming a movie producer to pay off gangsters.
This project got the green light!
Palace
Bloomington, Indiana• Film Feature
Drama
The family-fractured lives of a stubborn mechanic, a retired widower, and a repressed college student intertwine at a bar in rural Indiana.
This project got the green light!
Bedsheet Man
Bradenton, Florida• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
A middle aged man looses his son to suicide only to find a strange way to cope with his grief. He becomes the superhero that his son always
This project got the green light!
White Death
Needham, Norfolk County• Film Feature
Drama
A construction worker tries to leave the family business to pursue his life long dream of making a documentary about great white sharks.
This project got the green light!
Epiphany
Tarpon Springs, Florida• Film Feature
Drama, Family
A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her.
This project got the green light!
Mini Lights
Saint Petersburg, Florida• Film Feature
Horror
A group of skaters roams the haunted nooks of St. Petersburg Fl. where an unquenchable tragedy watches from the darkness waiting for a host.
This project got the green light!
Xerxes
Jersey City, New Jersey• Film Feature
Sci-Fi, Thriller
While recovering at his estranged childhood home from cochlear implant surgery, Xerxes spirals down the rabbit hole and may never climb out.
This project got the green light!
High
Tabernash, Colorado• Film Short
Drama, Experimental
An unnerved young mother and a footloose ski bum unearth suppressed desires in a hazardous twist of encounters.
This project got the green light!
Girl Talk
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, LGBTQ
Girl Talk follows Mia, as she explores the complications of intimacy, coming to a head when she meets an intriguing lesbian couple.
This project got the green light!
worst.christmas.ever.
Youngstown, Ohio• Film Feature
Comedy, Teen
A dark comedy about a 15-year-old girl whose entire world falls apart after she discovers that she's pregnant on Christmas Eve.
This project got the green light!
A Stray Ember
Lancaster, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Drama, Thriller
The agoraphobic victim of a home invasion takes to the road in a motor home, but a figure from her past threatens her new found freedom.
This project got the green light!
Just Like The Men
Bellingham, Washington• Film Feature
Comedy, History
Two girls find a lost screenplay and decide to give history the middle finger.
This project got the green light!
Minneapolis (the movie)
Minneapolis, Minnesota• Film Feature
Comedy, Family
A cocky news anchor team gets stuck "mentoring" an at-risk teen. Shenanigans and dastardly weather conditions ensue…
This project got the green light!
WILLIE, JAMALEY & THE CACACOON
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Adventure, Comedy
Two misfits adventure out to prove the existence of a local mythological creature.
This project got the green light!
The Blue Whale
Catoosa, Oklahoma• Film Feature
Teen, Drama
In 1980's rural Oklahoma a teenage boy meets a girl from California who helps him break out of his shell and learn the truth of his heritage
This project got the green light!
Fantastic Santa Monaco
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, Satire
A film about a group of performance artists who are looking for love, connection and significance in Los Angeles.
This project got the green light!
Aperture
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Family
A grad student's life is turned upside down when he is named the guardian for his little cousin.
This project got the green light!
Rainmaker
Missoula, Montana• Film Short
Drama, Thriller
A young mother struggles with the demon of her eating disorder and the implication that it holds for her six-year-old daughter.
This project got the green light!
Amal
Orange, California• Film Short
Drama
When a young Syrian refugee living in America witnesses her mother being discriminated against, she begins to question her cultural identity
This project got the green light!
Interference
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Thriller
A violent altercation between a police officer and a black man left one person dead. A couple passing by must decide what they believe.
This project got the green light!
e.ro.sion, noun
Jersey City, New Jersey• Film Short
Romance, Sci-Fi
Following the ending of a relationship, a girl slips into a parallel reality where her heart and soul slowly disappear before her eyes.
This project got the green light!
Building the American Dream
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Documentary
In the deadliest state for construction, undocumented workers fight for reform of the Texas industry while under the threat of deportation.
This project got the green light!
Kinesthesia
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama, Shorts Program
Frustrated at her inability to accurately remember a particular time of happiness in her life, Minny sets out to find it again.
This project got the green light!
Cross
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama, Film-Noir
A young Filipino backyard boxer enters a Mexican fight ring in the San Fernando Valley.
This project got the green light!
