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A bit of background...
The film follows Alek, an aimless, 30-year-old Type 1 diabetic. After returning home in the hopes of reliving his teenage “glory days,” he finds that most of his friends have moved away or moved on within the dull comforts of suburban life. Only Matt, one of Alek’s old acquaintances, is free to spend the night. Tensions quickly mount as Matt represents everything Alek hates about suburban life and Alek seems unwilling and unable to let go of his rose-tinted dreams of the past. Things go from bad to worse as the night goes on, and Alek’s dream turns into a nightmare.
I was in production for a documentary that got shut down during COVID. So I decided to get a few people together to produce a script I had written a while before that seemed feasible with the resources we had access to and while we were all out of work. We shot the film over 14 days on old HI-8 cameras and then transferred the film to 16mm. It's incredibly lo-fi, but, recently in my career, I've been trying to find and explore the aesthetics of disability cinema. As a disabled filmmaker, I wanted to make a film that felt uniquely disabled... that used technology that was itself disabled, discarded, and forgotten. I also felt a home-video aesthetic made absolute sense for this main character who is so desperate and nostalgic for a time that was free of responsibility.
We are proud of this weird little movie. It takes a bit of effort on the audience's part... because it is EXTREMELY lo-fi, even in lo-fi terms. And the main character can be extremely awful and selfish. Regardless, I hope you enjoy it. We had a blast making it and have loved sharing it with others.
Watch it here: https://tubitv.com/movies/724073/the-diabetic
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3J_nwj5oSU
You can read more about the film here:
Thanks for watching!!! :) xo
I skim the trades, so you don’t have to.
◊‘Yellowjackets’ Creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson Get Real on Season 2 Pressure, Showtime Tumult and Spinoffs: “We Have a Couple of Ideas”
‘Yellowjackets’ Bosses Weigh In on Premiere Shocker and Look Ahead to Season 2 and Beyond
My two-cent takeaway: Lyle and Nickerson are perfect examples of Hollywood outsiders who moved to LA and achieved what many of us want. Study their method to increase your chances at success.
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◊‘Westworld’ Showrunner Lisa Joy on How A.I. is Turning the Sci-Fi Show Into “a Documentary”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/westworld-lisa-joy-ai-series-mania-1235358250/
My two-cent takeaway: I can’t help wondering if her interpretation of ‘Westworld’ as “a documentary” might have be part of the eventual failure of the series. As much as I love the idea, not being primed as a doc would confuse viewers. I especially agree with her theory that content never dies. Write what works for you, that’s what’s important.
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Join us to explore horror writing techniques, discuss your horror projects and trade critiques. We meet every Tuesday at 6pm (Pacific) 9pm (Eastern) / Wed noon (Sydney) on the ScriptCamp Discord
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This group is free to attend and open to everyone, including beginners and veteran screenwriters.
Weekly Horror Shorts Contest
We also have a weekly horror short screenplay contest. This week's prompt....you have until the meeting starts to write a SHORT SCREENPLAY (up to 5 pages max) incorporating at least one of the following elements:
🔸 A dark and stormy night;
🔸 Somewhere eerily optimistic; or
🔸 A wedding or funeral
How to submit your Horror Short?
Upload a .pdf of your script to our Discord, in standard screenplay format.
Deadline Tuesday, March 28 @ 6pm (Pacific).
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