It's very remiss of me not to have explained what I'm working on this semester. The second year of the Grad film program is dedicated to a ten minute short film. It's the longest project we've worked on to date. Here's the synopsis for mine:
A young disabled woman wants to have a sexual experience but her overbearing, religious mother is unwittingly standing in her way. I've just got the script to a place that I'm happy with and I've got good feedback from my classmates and teachers. Now I'm trying to cast Eleanor which is proving almost impossible. It's quite surprising but there are so few actors with disabilities in New York. Luckily Christine Bruno from Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts is helping me out.
The talented Matt Mendelson has signed up as my cinematographer and I have two fabulous producers, Heather Jack and Shruti Ganguly.
Watch this space for updates.
I'm shooting this film in January, but in the meantime I'll be crewing on seven other films. Yikes!
