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11:11
A short film by Grace Parker
Directed by Emily DeForest
Produced by Grace Parker, Hannah Myers, and Cassidy Wingate
Director of Photography: Jesse Coyote Sanchez-Strauss
TEASER TRAILER
https://vimeo.com/381024772
SYNOPSIS
Isabella is a successful, single 40-something Manhattanite who has gotten pretty much everything she wanted out of life. A visit from her best friend's seven-year-old daughter causes her to remember her younger self, having just moved New York, in the thick of a beautiful and turbulent relationship. Our ALL FEMALE creative team is so excited to bring you 11:11, a story about expectations, the chaos of youth, and what happens when (most of) our dreams come true.
SCREENWRITER'S STATEMENT
I was totally scared to make this movie. It felt indulgent and silly to me to make a movie about a young woman who moves to New York the year after I, a young woman, moved to New York. But I started to share the script with some of my wonderful female friends, and realized that there was power in the personal and specific, and most importantly that maybe I was scratching the surface of ideas and notions of young womanhood that I didn't (and still don't!) understand.
11:11 is a film for women who are fiercely determined and overwhelmingly doubtful. It's a film for women who feel like tornadoes. It's a film for women with superpowers. It's a film for women in love and women in pain. It's for women who want children and women who don't, and especially for those who don't know. It's for fighters and the tenderhearted and especially the tenderhearted fighters. It's for all of us who need friendship just as much as oxygen.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Grace’s writing has always spoken to me. She exposes those deep dark secrets of being alive in 2019(2020?!). I’m so excited to make my directorial debut with this film.
11:11 explores the ache of big dreams and the comfort of that chosen family in the chaotic void that is New York City. Film as method of storytelling has been my lifeline since I moved to NYC. We are so grateful for any and all support given to this special project.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION
We need your help to bring this story to life. Your donations DIRECTLY go to:
Camera Rental
Lighting/Grip Rental
Space Rental
Costumes/Props
Actor/Crew/Team Compensation
Festival Fees
We are so grateful in advance for your help and support. (EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS!)
For donations of $5 and above you will receive a shout out on social and our undying gratitude.
For donations of $20 and above you will receive a handwritten note from the team. (We promise the card will be cute)
For donations of $200 and above, you will receive 2 free tickets to the screening of the film.
For donations of $500 and above, you will receive a special thanks in the credits of the film, 2 tickets to the screening, a handwritten note, and our undying gratitude. (And a partridge in a pear tree)
THE TEAM
EMILY DEFOREST (Director, Producer)
Emily DeForest is a New York City based actor, director, producer, and writer. In 2019, Emily produced and performed in her first 24 Hour Play Festival, wrote and starred in her first short film “Hi Mom." Emily is passionate about creating art and spaces that advocate for the messy, full-ranged, and ridiculous human in all of us. @tourdeforest_
GRACE PARKER (Screenwriter, Producer, Young Isabella)
Grace Parker is an NYC-based playwright/actor/producer. Recent playwriting work includes WHY WE HAVE BOOK CLUB (De Frente Productions), DEAR COLLEGE, (Lionheart New Works Festival, Award for Playwriting), THE TIME LIZZIE AND JASON AND RYAN AND HEATHER WENT TO RYAN'S LAKEHOUSE (Sproutworks), MISSED CONNECTIONS, (Manhattan Repertory Theatre: Fall One Act Competition Winner), and JULIET AND THE FALCONS (Northlight Educational Theatre). Her play DOUBLE TAP had a developmental reading at Atlantic Theatre Company in 2019. As an actor, she has worked with Goodman Theatre, Timeline Theatre, and Rave Festival, among others. She is an Assistant Producer at the Orchard Project, and assistant to playwright Leah Nanako Winkler. University of North Carolina School of the Arts: BFA Drama. Proud alum of NTI Theatermakers Ensemble 2016 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. NHSI Theatre Arts Cherub 2013. New Play Exchange: Grace Parker. @_good_gracious_
JESSE COYOTE SANCHEZ-STRAUSS (Director of Photography)
Jesse Coyote Sanchez-Strauss is a Director of Photography and Steadicam Operator based in New York City. Originally from Ohio, she earned her BFA in Film from UNCSA, specializing in Cinematography. Since moving to NY, she has also trained as a Steadicam Operator (SOA). Her work can currently be seen in festivals around the world. Her short film Engaged (DoP) has recently screened at over 20 film festivals, including ‘Outfest’ and ‘Hollyshorts’. Her Steadicam work can be seen in the upcoming feature film “Black Bear” starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbot, and Sarah Gadon, directed by Lawrence Michael Levine.
HANNAH MYERS (Producer/Mal)
Hannah Myers is an Actor-Director, bred in the South and based in New York City. She has worked closely on new play development with Soho Rep., The Bushwick Starr, Atlantic Theater Company, SITI Company, SPACE on Ryder Farm, EST, Lincoln Center, Sprout Works, and Gibney Dance Center. Most recently, she performed in a dance adaptation of Cowboy Mouth with Huddled Spaces, produced by Gibney Dance and appeared on FBI (CBS) Recent Assistant Director of Twelfth Night at The Old American Can Factory, she is a co-founder of DUMB Theatre Company and a Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium Alumni. She holds a BFA in Drama from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts as well as independent studies with Kristin Linklater and Bob Krakower. This fall, Hannah led the cast of Échappé, a narrative contemporary dance film. It's safe to say she's wild about this 11:11 creative team. @mhannahmyers
CASSIDY WINGATE (Producer)
Cassidy Wingate is an actor/producer living in Brooklyn. She is one of the co-founders of Sprout Works, a non-profit theater company focused on developing new works. She is very grateful to be working
with this fine group of ladies and supporting the work of an excellent writer. For more, check out cassidywingate.com / sprout-works.com
A short film by Grace Parker
Directed by Emily DeForest
Produced by Grace Parker, Hannah Myers, and Cassidy Wingate
Director of Photography: Jesse Coyote Sanchez-Strauss
TEASER TRAILER
https://vimeo.com/381024772
SYNOPSIS
Isabella is a successful, single 40-something Manhattanite who has gotten pretty much everything she wanted out of life. A visit from her best friend's seven-year-old daughter causes her to remember her younger self, having just moved New York, in the thick of a beautiful and turbulent relationship. Our ALL FEMALE creative team is so excited to bring you 11:11, a story about expectations, the chaos of youth, and what happens when (most of) our dreams come true.
SCREENWRITER'S STATEMENT
I was totally scared to make this movie. It felt indulgent and silly to me to make a movie about a young woman who moves to New York the year after I, a young woman, moved to New York. But I started to share the script with some of my wonderful female friends, and realized that there was power in the personal and specific, and most importantly that maybe I was scratching the surface of ideas and notions of young womanhood that I didn't (and still don't!) understand.
11:11 is a film for women who are fiercely determined and overwhelmingly doubtful. It's a film for women who feel like tornadoes. It's a film for women with superpowers. It's a film for women in love and women in pain. It's for women who want children and women who don't, and especially for those who don't know. It's for fighters and the tenderhearted and especially the tenderhearted fighters. It's for all of us who need friendship just as much as oxygen.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Grace’s writing has always spoken to me. She exposes those deep dark secrets of being alive in 2019(2020?!). I’m so excited to make my directorial debut with this film.
11:11 explores the ache of big dreams and the comfort of that chosen family in the chaotic void that is New York City. Film as method of storytelling has been my lifeline since I moved to NYC. We are so grateful for any and all support given to this special project.
YOUR CONTRIBUTION
We need your help to bring this story to life. Your donations DIRECTLY go to:
Camera Rental
Lighting/Grip Rental
Space Rental
Costumes/Props
Actor/Crew/Team Compensation
Festival Fees
We are so grateful in advance for your help and support. (EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS!)
For donations of $5 and above you will receive a shout out on social and our undying gratitude.
For donations of $20 and above you will receive a handwritten note from the team. (We promise the card will be cute)
For donations of $200 and above, you will receive 2 free tickets to the screening of the film.
For donations of $500 and above, you will receive a special thanks in the credits of the film, 2 tickets to the screening, a handwritten note, and our undying gratitude. (And a partridge in a pear tree)
THE TEAM
EMILY DEFOREST (Director, Producer)
Emily DeForest is a New York City based actor, director, producer, and writer. In 2019, Emily produced and performed in her first 24 Hour Play Festival, wrote and starred in her first short film “Hi Mom." Emily is passionate about creating art and spaces that advocate for the messy, full-ranged, and ridiculous human in all of us. @tourdeforest_
GRACE PARKER (Screenwriter, Producer, Young Isabella)
Grace Parker is an NYC-based playwright/actor/producer. Recent playwriting work includes WHY WE HAVE BOOK CLUB (De Frente Productions), DEAR COLLEGE, (Lionheart New Works Festival, Award for Playwriting), THE TIME LIZZIE AND JASON AND RYAN AND HEATHER WENT TO RYAN'S LAKEHOUSE (Sproutworks), MISSED CONNECTIONS, (Manhattan Repertory Theatre: Fall One Act Competition Winner), and JULIET AND THE FALCONS (Northlight Educational Theatre). Her play DOUBLE TAP had a developmental reading at Atlantic Theatre Company in 2019. As an actor, she has worked with Goodman Theatre, Timeline Theatre, and Rave Festival, among others. She is an Assistant Producer at the Orchard Project, and assistant to playwright Leah Nanako Winkler. University of North Carolina School of the Arts: BFA Drama. Proud alum of NTI Theatermakers Ensemble 2016 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. NHSI Theatre Arts Cherub 2013. New Play Exchange: Grace Parker. @_good_gracious_
JESSE COYOTE SANCHEZ-STRAUSS (Director of Photography)
Jesse Coyote Sanchez-Strauss is a Director of Photography and Steadicam Operator based in New York City. Originally from Ohio, she earned her BFA in Film from UNCSA, specializing in Cinematography. Since moving to NY, she has also trained as a Steadicam Operator (SOA). Her work can currently be seen in festivals around the world. Her short film Engaged (DoP) has recently screened at over 20 film festivals, including ‘Outfest’ and ‘Hollyshorts’. Her Steadicam work can be seen in the upcoming feature film “Black Bear” starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbot, and Sarah Gadon, directed by Lawrence Michael Levine.
HANNAH MYERS (Producer/Mal)
Hannah Myers is an Actor-Director, bred in the South and based in New York City. She has worked closely on new play development with Soho Rep., The Bushwick Starr, Atlantic Theater Company, SITI Company, SPACE on Ryder Farm, EST, Lincoln Center, Sprout Works, and Gibney Dance Center. Most recently, she performed in a dance adaptation of Cowboy Mouth with Huddled Spaces, produced by Gibney Dance and appeared on FBI (CBS) Recent Assistant Director of Twelfth Night at The Old American Can Factory, she is a co-founder of DUMB Theatre Company and a Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium Alumni. She holds a BFA in Drama from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts as well as independent studies with Kristin Linklater and Bob Krakower. This fall, Hannah led the cast of Échappé, a narrative contemporary dance film. It's safe to say she's wild about this 11:11 creative team. @mhannahmyers
CASSIDY WINGATE (Producer)
Cassidy Wingate is an actor/producer living in Brooklyn. She is one of the co-founders of Sprout Works, a non-profit theater company focused on developing new works. She is very grateful to be working
with this fine group of ladies and supporting the work of an excellent writer. For more, check out cassidywingate.com / sprout-works.com