THE STORY

Fed up with her isolation, a woman posts a Craigslist ad that brings four strangers together for a bizarre encounter with a side of pie.

At its sickly sweet core, “Bring Your Own Forks” is about the epidemic of loneliness. Capitalism and technology leave us with fewer and fewer ways to connect. Our short film takes a magnifying glass to a character who is as overlooked in cinema as they are in real life. What happens when we find ourselves without even one person to share a Costco Pie with?

TONE

Slice of life meets the surreal.

The tone is slightly absurd and whimsical. The world around our main character is bright and teeming with life, but the people who surround the protagonist are apathetic and disinterested. As the film progresses, the world becomes increasingly strange and disorienting. Think After Hours and Beau Is Afraid.

THEMES

There is little dialogue as the characters communicate with each other through expressions and movement. The physicality and the way the characters interact with their environments emphasize this theme of reaching for connection. Personifying inanimate objects and reaching for touch and non-verbal communication where words fail.

THE LOOK

The cinematography, at first static to mirror the main character's stagnant life, will become increasingly surreal, dreamlike, and visceral as the story progresses. A cold, harsh world contrasted with the warm and worn interiors of our main character’s space. An analog-like quality but captured with digital, drawing inspiration from the character’s rejection of contemporary life (or more accurately, its rejection of her) and the nostalgia for a pre-internet world.

THE TEAM

Isobel Obrecht is a first-time film director. She worked as a fact checker and associate producer for comedy news TV show HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU and now works as a freelance writer and stage manager for theater.

Ashe Leen is the producer of “Bring Your Own Forks”. Spending the first few years of her career freelancing as a camera technician, she now produces narrative films as a proud member of the New York indie film scene.

THE BUDGET

Who gets a piece of the pie?

Our fundraising goal is $10,000 – below is a breakdown of the many, many, many expenses we have anticipated to get this film fully baked.

A majority of our funding will be used to take care of our cast and crew. Paying and feeding them and doing it well. The rest will go to the renting of our locations, film equipment, art, transportation, post production & festival submission fees.

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