The First of Many...

Hello-

For anyone who has ever visited this page you're probably wondering what its all about. I met my friend Jane (fellow blogger) when we both worked for a film studio in the city here. From there we became roommates, and the rest is history. Jane and I share the same belief that there just aren't enough film projects out there that are female-driven. There are amazing women writers (Naomi Foner, Allison Burnett, even Diablo Cody) and there are amazing female directors (Nora Ephron, Isabel Coixet, Debra Granik) but so few of them are able to break into the box office eshalons of their male counterparts (Scorcese, Speilberg, Lucas, Crowe, Scott, Nolan... this list goes on and on...). It is however, a fact that Hollywood is starting to acknowledge... but more on that later. What this blog is really about is the journey that Jane and I are taking to make a film that speaks powerfully to women of all ages while creating awareness about women in film and all that comes with that.

So here it is: TEN SECOND EXPOSURE (a working title of course) is the story of always organized, unemotional Hannah- who cruises through her monotonous life with her blackberry and her pant suit until the day she gets a call from Nancy Montgomery, the mother of her estranged childhood best friend, Jo. Hannah is invited to join Nancy and her husband John at their home in Long Island to celebrate Jo’s 28th birthday. Hannah reluctantly arrives to find that Joe has been living jobless off her parents, suffering from depression for the past nine months, and had no idea Hannah was even invited…

TEN SECOND EXPOSURE is actually a feature film script, written by Jane, that we have developed into a short film format. We're actually shooting TSE in August '08 in order to submit to festivals and secure further financing for the feature version that we aim to shoot next Summer '09 - and one of the reasons we decided to start this blog. We've got a great group of actors assembled after two weeks of some of the most grueling casting sessions - it was a tough decision but we think we found our Jo and our Hannah and are looking forward to bringing this film to fruition.

With days to go until shooting things are finally starting to fall into place. Our equipment is loaded, our locations are locked, the permits are in place, our caterers are set, the actors are excited, and the crew... well they can't believe they're doing another short film for free post-graduation!

We'll have lots of pictures to share and many stories to tell as the days of shooting go by - now for me, it's off to my parent's house to pick through my childhood memories and find those precious objects that'll bring Jo's adolescent-revisited bedroom back to life... Backstreet Boys poster here I come!

Later y'all,
Traci