Help New Women in Film

http://www.indiegogo.com/Bitch-Pack-Film-Collective

You have until April 25!

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Our Story

We’re three women from public school backgrounds getting our Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting at a public university.  We have bachelors degrees from public universities in Radio/Film/Television, Screenwriting and Communications.  We have no institutional budget or program help in getting our work produced. We have a year and a half before we graduate and need to make a splash before then and we want to be heard– and yes, we want to subvert the Hollywood paradigm.

In order to do this and realize our dreams, we need your help. Wouldn’t it be great to say you got some hand made perks and eternal thanks from the next Kathryn Bigelow, Mary Harron, Karyn Kusama or Jodi Foster?

We need the chance to use our skills and show that a new crop of women filmmakers can make relevant and entertaining pieces.  We’re working for free as Executive Producers and social media mavens. We’ll use the money for paying our crew, actors, post production team and for production supplies.

We’ve formed our own film collective with which we are launching this page because we believe in each others’ work. Thankfully, we’re supported by a fiscal sponsorship by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization: From The Heart Productions (954445418). This gives all of our donors an immediate tax write off.We’re making two short films that we’ve written in class as the beginning of our filmmaking careers.   One will be a horror and one will be a comedy.  WE NEED  YOUR SUPPORT TO HELP LAUNCH 3 TALENTED WOMEN INTO THE FILM BIZ..

Our horror is called Orange County Hill Killers.  It features a female protagonist, Amber, a college aged young woman who tries to assimilate more into regular society and sever her ties from her bizarre backwoods family.  When people think of Orange County, they think of sunny beaches and Lauren Conrad, instead of Black Star Canyon and all of its haunting folklore that this short is inspired by.  We’d like to show the other side of Orange County that people may not know about and bring to light the oral traditions about our local legends a.k.a. “the people in the hills”. This will be a horror film made by women for horror lovers.

Boxing Hank is our comedy. It was inspired by the near-by Santa Ana Boxing Club, a fitness non-profit for the local community.  It’s the story of a nerdy guy who overcomes his own mental hurdles to gain greater self confidence and love.  It also features strong, self assured female characters. Santa Ana is a city that gets no respect from its South Orange County neighbors who live the yachting lifestyle, however it has a thriving art scene many do not know about and very interesting historic neighborhoods.

Not only do we want people out there to think differently about young women who write and make movies, but we also want to show the various sides of our local surroundings that are largely still hidden.

You can follow the progress of our work– our inspiration albums and pre-production on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodBiatchPack and see what issues we’re discussing on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/biatchpack

The Impact

If we succeed, we’re showing that women of various ethnicities can have the power to express themselves through motion pictures, despite academic or financial restrictions.  We  promise to also “pay it forward” and continue to make stories written by other women.

Women are still severely underrepresented in the film industry today. Men continue to get the precedent in our classes and in the real world. We need your help to show our mettle and be taken seriously.

We understand how to talk to young women are are well versed in transmedia.

What We Need & What You Get

Besides the satisfaction you’ll get from being part of a completely new film movement, also check out what we have for you over there —->  ok, now look up–
Camera –3000.00 for Canon Rebel 5D Mark II

Lenses –2000.00

Filming permits/location rentals 2500.00

Car rentals and insurance 600.00

Craft services 1000.00 (hopefully rest donated)

Sound equipment rental – 600.00

Director pay (2) 100.00/day

Cinematographer pay (2) 100.00/day

Camera assistant pay (2) 100.00/day

Sound crew pay (4) 100.00/day each

Gaffing crew pay (10) 75.00/day each

Art director pay (2) 100.00/day

Property assistant (2) 75.00/day

Production assistants pay (4) 75.00/day

Actors pay (18) 100.00/day

Extras pay (4) 50.00/day

Additional non-athletic costuming 500.00

Props 1000.00 (hopefully rest donated)

Post production, titling 2000.00 (hopefully rest donated)

Film festival submissions 1000.00

Other Ways You Can Help

We would love it if you would tweet our campaign link and also put it on Facebook. Help our’s and other women’s voices be heard.

Tom Haverford in Blaxploitation?

No wonder he’s so hip hop.

Skankenstein Poster

Thanks Chaka Khan:

She’s every woman. It’s all in her.

A slain female prostitute is brought back to life using body parts from other fallen women. She avenges her death and takes out the ones who kept her and other women down.

FADE IN:

EXT. FRENCH QUARTER – NIGHT

We go overhead from the lit up top of St. Louis Cathedral, swooping over Jackson Square to The Mighty Mississippi, to Algier’s Point, hitting some trees with Spanish Moss hanging on them, back over to The French Quarter, skittering by the antiquarian rooftops, down Royal Street’s balconies, to the red neon lights spelling HOTEL MONTELEONE.

Now we go through the doors of Hotel Monteleone, a fine establishment with the most decked out lobby you’ve ever seen- a polished brown and white gingham floor, chandeliers the size of boats, ceilings that do not dare scream what they’ve seen over the decades.

We walk with CLAIREESE, 25, a ravishing mixed race beauty who commands her cadence in her six inch leopard print heels. She’s no little girl in big girl shoes. She’s a woman who owns it, this town, this client she’s about to meet. She’s no ordinary call girl.

Neil Genzlinger Thinks We’re “Smart”

so we’re going to retire now. JK

 

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A Bitchslap in the Form of a Note (A Polite One)

Photos by: Charles Dharapak/AP

 

 

 

 

 

Pepper Spray Meme

Occupy Munchkinland by EnemyLister

#OWS

UC Davis Chancellor and Police Chief, Shame on YOU.

Professor Nathan Brown. You have balls.

 

more like Annette Dispic-uzza

 

via FB

 

via OWS Twitter

London Called and Got an Answer

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for some London videos – go here.

The Answer to The Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Hot Whore-ish Dream Guy: variation of Man Ho With a Heart of Gold

Made Official by editors at Urban Dictionary <—— click here

 

He sleeps with models or really hot chicks.

He’ll change for you because you’re different.

He has Peter Pan Syndrome- and copious amounts of mysterious money he inherited or something because he doesn’t seem to have a job or work much on anything, so he can spend all of his time being a horn dog.

He’s supposedly irresistibly good-looking and knows it- some sort of man candy.

He’s um, off beat somehow – quirky himself, has low self esteem, hurts deep down inside, but masks it with narcissism.

He gets you out of your “shell” by getting you throw things, role play as characters from Dirty Dancing, or play strip H-O-R-S-E (basketball) with him.

Similar to The Manic Pixie Dream Girl in that he’ll get you to experience new things/lose some inhibitions, is “quirky” and also in that he is not successful professionally, does not pursue traditional grown up work patterns. She has Wendy Syndrome.

Different to The MPDG in that she will hook up with “nice guys”, not just models, the superficially attractive. HWDG is sly and methodical where MPDG is coy and cutesy.

MPDG and HWDG are new millennial breeds- not out for matrimony, and with no definitive romantic end game. They are catalysts for other characters to loosen up/change. HWDG in turn demonstrates being less shallow at the end. HWDG changes on his own accord, not because a female is pursuing him to change him.

HWDG isn’t as traditional, doesn’t wind up in status quo relationships like Ladykiller in Love or Reformed Rake.

HWDG’s change can be exhibited to platonic female characters- ie. in About a Boy and in New Girl.

Examples:

yep, Hugh Grant as Will

Jacob in Crazy Stupid Love – yeah, you know it’s The Goz

Shirtless Schmidt from New Girl

Colin from What’s Your Number

The jump? 2002 – shirt, lately- no shirts

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