Seeking Director for 20min Narrative Pilot shooting June 9-12

Details

• Position
  Director
• Start Date
  May 19, 2017 — Jun 13, 2017
• Location
  Brooklyn, NY, United States
• Rate
  This is a paid position. Rate is $100 total
• Status
  Job has been filled

Job Description

"Broken Land" is an episodic series for which we've developed both a pilot and two-season treatment. This project is close to our hearts for many reasons, and we'd love to bring a director on board who knows how not just how to get a project made, but to make the process as fulfilling as possible for everyone involved.

Project shoots June 9 -12, followed by an early-fall Seed & Spark campaign to fund the creation of season 1.

Broken Land is a naturalistic comedy/drama about a handful of Brooklynites striving for connection, often in cringe-worthy, emotionally disastrous ways. Using a meandering narrative style, Broken Land blends elements of ensemble shows like Girls with the compassion and humor of High Maintenance. But where these cultural forebearers maintain their respective scopes and foci (a group of 4-6 friends, the random customers of a weed delivery guy) Broken Land shifts focus, gradually concerning itself with an ever-shrinking group of people from which a couple will emerge and find themselves both very much in love and socially isolated from their friends. Over the course of season one this couple will become the central focus of the show, and the arc of their relationship will comprise the entirety of season two.

Life hurts - and the characters in Broken Land experience a smorgasbord of pain stemming from infidelity to gentrification, self-delusion, mental illness and more. The shite of life is on full display but there is also something fundamentally funny (and occasionally beautiful) about being alive in this incredible place at this unique time in history. If anything, this is the show's fundamental belief. Broken Land is at its best when it forces the audience to withhold judgement of and recognize a bit of themselves in the calamity. Structurally the series obeys a largely chronological format, with occasional episodes breaking into backstory that both illuminates and complicates the decisions made by its main characters.

Length: 20-25 minutes (future episodes will be about half this length)
Anticipated shoot: 6/9-6/12
Anticipated release: 9/1
Budget: dude eating expired ramen out of a dumpster - until the campaign is funded.
Union: No.
Locations: Most important locations are 80% donated by friends (thus the shoot date). Almost all are in North Brooklyn.
Cameras: 4K iPhone(s) using a cinema lens system
Cast: All roles have breakdowns out on Actors Access and we have some very promising submissions
How we work: The production team lives on Slack (die email, die!), Trello, and Google Docs