Projects in Development
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I WANT A WIFE
PROJECT TYPE: Short Dramatic Film
LOGLINE: In this tongue-in-cheek short film with a serious point, an all-star ensemble of women and men enact and discuss Judy Brady’s legendary feminist satire essay, I WANT A WIFE, with the ultimate questions becoming WHO WOULDN’T WANT A WIFE—someone to iron your clothes, cook your meals, care for your children, shop for the groceries, manage the house, and support you—AND shouldn’t these tasks be shared in any marriage?
A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE
PROJECT TYPE: An 8-part Limited Series based on the biography, A Warrior of the People by Joe Starita.
LOGLINE: The true story of how Susan La Flesche overcame racial and gender inequality to become the United States’ first indigenous doctor in 1889 and how she dedicated her life to caring for her community—the Omaha Tribe.
28 LIFE LESSONS
PROJECT TYPE: Feature-Length Dramatic Film
LOGLINE: An aging painter and her diverse group of friends mentor a diverse group of teens about life lessons.
A WOMAN OF THREE NATIONS
PROJECT TYPE: Feature-length Dramatic Historical film based on the biography, Juana Briones of 19th Century California by Jeanne Farr McDonnell.
LOGLINE: In order to support and protect her eight children, Juana Briones, an undaunted and illiterate medicine woman, leaves her alcoholic physically abusive husband to become an entrepreneur in 19th century California as it transitions from control by Spain, to Mexico and then to the United States.
PRESIDENTIAL MINIMUMS
PROJECT TYPE: Documentary Short – 20 to 30 minutes
LOGLINE: A brief look at the requirements to be President of democratic and socialist countries around the world and a brief discussion of what changes people think should be made to presidential requirements to be President of the United States.
RHYMES WITH WITCH
PROJECT TYPE: Narrative Short
LOGLINE: This will be the first or second episode in the limited series 28 Moments in US Women’s history and contrasts the experience of poet Anne Bradstreet in 1650 to that of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 370 years later in 2020.
THE LONG RELAY RACE:
BREAKING INVISIBLE BARRIERS TO
GENDER EQUITY IN THE UNITED STATES
PROJECT TYPE: A 28-part Dramatic Series
LOGLINE: A 28-part dramatic series to teach teens and young adults about the long relay race for gender equity in the United States and the fact that women are still not included in the U.S. Constitution.