“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.”
Oscar Wilde
Current Projects
Dimenticare (Feature) (94min)
Lisa Campanelli receives a mysterious portrait from her estranged sister, Gina, that depicts her family as they truly are. Italian for “to forget,” Dimenticare is a cruel, bitter descent into a Long Island nightmare.
Kathryn’s Cut (Webseries) (48min)
‘Halloweenfluencer’ Kathryn Lear becomes the target of a delusional plot to destroy all digital communication on Earth, by means of sacrificing her to a demon that lives inside the Sun.
(This found-footage YouTube series will be released in multiple sections, allowing viewers to decide which character to follow. Kathryn’s Cut is currently in development.)
Past Projects
The Higher Plane Network (Pilot) (30min)
There’s a TV station in the afterlife that airs the same show every night at midnight: The Higher Plane Network, where famous ghosts throughout history battle to the death – again. And again. And again. But when a teenage psychic accidentally projects herself into a fight, she must escape the show’s mysterious frontwoman and find a way back to life. It’s Celebrity Deathmatch for the deceased, and you’d have to be dead to want to miss it!
My Best Friend Betty (Pilot) (30min)
After her mother’s death, artist Natalie Griffin becomes afflicted with a generations-long condition: she can see Toons. Specifically, her mother’s former muse, Betty Boop. Together, they team up against Natalie’s lack of direction and her just-as-messed-up step-grandmother, Norma Jean. My Best Friend, Betty is a sardonic, heartfelt comedy about grief and friendship that will be shot entirely in stunning Technicolor.
The Tower (Short Film) (16min)
On Judgment Day, abusive magician Mars must reckon with every curse they have ever cast. Based on the sixteenth tarot card of the same name, The Tower is a personal short about manipulation, identity politics, and death. Check back for updates on this short’s production.
Stony Peak (Pilot) (60min)
When Nadiya Vaswani disappears from Stony Peak National Forest, her high school girlfriend Allison and former ex-friend Charlie must go through Hell to find her. Inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, Stony Peak is a bad trip through the memories we so desperately wish to keep buried.
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