Pitching Our Short...

For the uninitiated, I should mention that Scary Cow is a community-based and financed movie production company that started up in January ’07.    Here we were in April and the rules had changed; instead of being assigned into a group, we now had to lobby the community to get participants.  My take was that there were lots of would-be directors, screenwriters and actors, but very few people with technical skills.  While Gino and I had attended the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking and were technically competent, we were also in the majority that preferred to write and direct.  It was therefore paramount that we enroll a great cameraman… someone with lights and sound equipment would come in handy too.

I was unavailable the night of the gathering to pitch our project to the crowd.  It was up to Gino, who, if you’ve read his bio you’ll know, is a university professor and an eloquent pitchman.  Off he went armed with postcards we created to hand out:

MISMO

The theme of public and private personas will be explored in parallel stories that will be developed in a non-linear fashion ~ think Crash, Babel, Magnolia, Amores Perros, Pulp Fiction.  The first 7-minute film will introduce the three main characters:
When Angelica talks about the man who provides her solace in the wake of her brother’s untimely death, she unwittingly feeds her psychologist's sexual fantasies. When the man betrays her, or so she thinks, Angelica spirals suicidally out of control.

Crew Needed: 

• Director of Photography   
• Sound Recordist   
• Script Supervisor    
• Editor 
• Location Manager
• Make-up/Wardrobe
  

Interestingly enough, this 7-minute film remains the core of MISMO… we just added a LOT more twists to the story.