NEW SHORT FILM:
Latest News:
This film is regularly being BLOGGED about.
AND is a semifinalist for a grant/fellowship from Cinereach – fingers crossed!
Where There’s Smoke
(working title)
Pitch Video for New Short from Tawnya Foskett on Vimeo.
Genre: slice of life Drama
Production: 3 days (early Oct.); Asbury Park and/or surrounds.
Running Time: 12-min
Format: Canon 5D
Release: early 2011 for the festival circuit
Director: Tawnya Foskett
Writers: Gordon Farrell & Tawnya Foskett
Story By: Jenifer Hixson
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LOG LINE:
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A chance meeting unites two women with bad boyfriends and bad habits.
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ONE SENTENCE SYNOPSIS:
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At the stoplight Jenny escapes Cliff’s anger with just a pack of cigarettes- but no matches. Then she meets Becky, who has what she needs…
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SHORT SYNOPSIS:
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A chance meeting between two strange women on the street who’ve both had fights with their boyfriends and are both needing a cigarette. Once they accomplish this task together it is uncanny how much they get each other and how well they get along. When it’s time to head home, Jenny sees the reality of Becky’s life, and realizes how good she has it and how much better it can be for her if she finds the courage to change, and we end with Jenny contemplating letting go of the bad boyfriend and bad habit.
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LONG SYNOPSIS:
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Jenny and her boyfriend, Cliff, are fighting, again. But it’s a bad day for him and she needs to get away, so at the light she runs from the car with nothing but the cigarettes. They’ll be enough for the few hours of peace she’ll be able to steal for herself. But then she realizes she has no lighter.
As luck would have it she comes upon a stranger, Becky, who seems to have been crying and asks her for a cigarette as they pass. After a desperate search one match is found and the girls spend the next few hours talking as they smoke through the entire pack.
When it’s time to head home Jenny realizes she doesn’t know the way and so Becky offers her a ride. Stopping by Becky’s place causes a new reality to sink in for Jenny as she sees the grimness and traps of this woman’s life. As Jenny makes her way back home she questions the way she lives, and begins looking at the choices that are still open for her to take, if she finds the courage to do so.
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