MICROAGGRESSIONS (SEASON ONE)

logline: 5 people arrive in a City building on a Saturday morning for an HR mediation that becomes shaded by nuanced misunderstandings between them all, just prior to the apocalypse.

runtime: 35 minutes (6 episodes, each episode is between 5-6 minutes)

shooting script: available here

format: HD, shot on Arri Alexa

budget: $5000. funded entirely by a project grant from the Regional Arts + Culture Council

year: shot in 2018, finished in 2019. production was 5 days.

festivals: NYC Webfest (nominee Best Webseries, winner Best Sound)

thoughts: A six-part webseries about a mediation at a municipal building on Saturday morning This was initially borne of a location, a conference room at my day job I knew we could probably shoot at. Over several drafts the story formed itself, becoming a episodic look at an HR violation from several points of view, intersecting with varied cultures and backgrounds of several individuals. I became more interested in the shape and feel of each character and less with what the HR violation concerned, which is to say the focus of the series is more the constrictions of bureaucracy and less about right and wrong (much of which is informed by my day job in local government over the last 18 years, where I have witnessed continued meetings of language, intention, and character.) I received a project grant from the Regional Arts + Culture Council to make it. Season 2 world premiered at Dances With Films in June 2023 and will be online in Spring 2024. stay tuned.

WATCH SEASON 1 ON AMAZON PRIME OR HIT THE PLAY BUTTON BELOW

a northern flicker films production | starring Michael Draper, Kate Gray, Chike Nwankwo, Pisay Pao, Todd Tschida with: Alexandra Blatt, Matt Mount, Patrick D. Green, Lincoln Hayes, Andrew Feinberg, Shaughn Uihlein, Tiffany Lodico | written & directed by Brian Padian | 1st AD Katie Dalziel | DP Scott Ballard | Editor Evonne Moritz | Music Scott Unrein | Camera Assist Asia Brown | Gaffer Kevin Forrest | Production Sound Dicky Dahl | Boom Operator Ian Upton | Hair & Makeup Savannah Somerville | Production Assistant Byron Gilmer | title cards Aldo Gonzalez | Songs by Priests, Bob, Dickel Brothers, Blanket Music, Knock Knock | made possible by a project grant from the Regional Arts + Culture Council

All characters and events depicted in this photoplay are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.