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One woman faces her final obligation in her isolated, waning days among a post-apocalyptic world. A film by Red Dawn Trio.
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“Through my teen years, my focus had turned to music, but when I got to college, I began immersing myself in film studies courses and crewing on thesis films. It was incredibly exciting to rediscover a world of comprehensive creation that blended so many things that I had grown to love independently…”
“I started writing fiction when I was a kid, then fell in love with movies as a teenager. It didn't take long for me to pick up a camera and start shooting, a journey that has taken me all the way through to today. As a filmmaker, my work is informed by narrative and literary traditions... it's all language to me.”
“I would pace around and talk ideas out loud to myself. Reciting potential dialogue over and over again to see if it worked till I was able to catch a new idea.”
“I went through the footage, took notes, and filmed the new footage, which is a commentary. Emotionally, it was complicated. It took some time for me to be able to watch to footage, and took a little more to sit and talk about it. It took a few years.”
“I dropped the feature ideas to focus on making something at my childhood home. I only had a handful of months to come up with an idea, procrastinate because of self-doubt, write it, rewrite, say, “fuck it, let’s make it”, cast it, scrape together the budget, pull together the best cast and crew, and then head to CT to have long weekend sleepover production party.”
“We wanted to be very intentional with every joke and line of dialogue, no filler, all killer as they say. You be the judge! But more so, if we're gonna put people through this dizzying scene of constant back and forth, every word needs to push the story forward and tell us something about these characters.”
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