SISTER/BROTHER | FEATURE FILM

logline: A drifting actress is invited to a dinner party at her ex-boyfriend’s Seattle home and she hastily requests her brother join her on the road trip and together they both confront the gaping void of middle-age.

runtime: 85 minutes ish. TBD!

format: shot on Arri Alexa

budget: TBA. crowdfunded for the first half

year: shot half in 2020, part in March 2022, the remainder soon.

festivals: TBD

thoughts:  Finishing production for this film soon is my number one priority. We shot interiors in February 2020 and had exteriors scheduled for April 2020 but Covid-19 came right in the middle. (note: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) We shot some more in March 2022 (mostly the titular duo driving and talking) and now we are aiming for sometime in 2024 to wrap production. Sister/Brother is about memory + oblivion, decay + rebirth, viewed through the lens of a hastily-assembled sibling road trip from Portland to Seattle. I wrote the script across a couple years after actor Erin McGarry and I met a few times, attempting to reverse engineer a movie, built on films and themes we both loved. I took the script to the Stowe Story Labs in Fall 2016 and workshopped it with mentors and peers. In Fall 2017 we shot the below proof-of-concept trailer. We applied for several grants and waited for production money for the feature to show up. By Fall 2018 none had arrived so I ran a crowdfunding campaign on Seed&Spark and raised $25,000. The project was shortlisted for the 2018 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and a finalist for the MovieMaker Production Grant.

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YOU CAN BE A PART OF SISTER/BROTHER! We still need to raise more production budget for Phase 3. To invest please contact Brian here. To purchase one of Brian’s photos in order to help the movie go here. To make a tax-deductible contribution through our fiscal sponsor Stowe Story Labs click HERE.