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Hello everyone,
I’m Monica Sinaloa, a Chicago-born Mexican-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. My work explores the human condition in the Latinx community across all forms of film from experimental to documentary.
This is my last semester at The New School as a Culture & Media student and for my thesis, I’ll be venturing in making my first narrative short, “From Yours Truly.”
As a filmmaker, I believe it’s important to pay cast + crew especially in a pandemic world. The heart of filmmaking is collaboration and my plan with this short is to collaborate with wonderful and talented individuals. The process of filmmaking is wonderful and anyone who is a part of it deserves to be compensated for their time.
Here’s a description of the story I’m trying to bring to life:
Logline: An ex-alcoholic goes to her childhood home to help her estranged siblings clear out their father’s things after his death.
Synopsis: Janni Morales is a young ex-alcoholic who has been estranged from her family for years due to a stint in rehab. Months after her father’s death, Janni goes to her childhood home to assist her siblings in cleaning out their father’s things. As Janni helps her siblings, she faces her past and the tension between her and her siblings after years of distance.
I encourage anyone who is Latinx and would like to be a part of this project to audition! Here’s the backstage link:
https://www.backstage.com/casting/from-yours-truly-394747/
This short is very important and personal to me. As a Latinx filmmaker, I strive to explore the human conditions that occur in my community. My intention is to create a space of healing and reliability with this film. Alcoholism within Latinx households is very prominent and has affected my family and numerous people around me. I wrote this as a way to cope and create a sense of reliability among peers to let them know that they’re not alone in this.
We plan to shoot April 9th and 10th, 2021 so getting funding for this is vital!
For total transparency as I believe transparency is the most important thing, here’s a breakdown of the budget (roughly, this could always change):
Cast/Crew: $575
Food: $300
Transportation: $90
Festival Submissions: $200
Wardrobe: $250
Set Design: $100
Note: This film will follow COVID-19 guidelines! As someone who has had many family members with COVID-19 and lost people, I value the safety and health of the cast/crew.
Please DONATE and SPREAD this! Be a part of the beautiful process of filmmaking, support me but most importantly the wonderful crew/cast
From Yours Truly,
Monica Sinaloa
I’m Monica Sinaloa, a Chicago-born Mexican-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. My work explores the human condition in the Latinx community across all forms of film from experimental to documentary.
This is my last semester at The New School as a Culture & Media student and for my thesis, I’ll be venturing in making my first narrative short, “From Yours Truly.”
As a filmmaker, I believe it’s important to pay cast + crew especially in a pandemic world. The heart of filmmaking is collaboration and my plan with this short is to collaborate with wonderful and talented individuals. The process of filmmaking is wonderful and anyone who is a part of it deserves to be compensated for their time.
Here’s a description of the story I’m trying to bring to life:
Logline: An ex-alcoholic goes to her childhood home to help her estranged siblings clear out their father’s things after his death.
Synopsis: Janni Morales is a young ex-alcoholic who has been estranged from her family for years due to a stint in rehab. Months after her father’s death, Janni goes to her childhood home to assist her siblings in cleaning out their father’s things. As Janni helps her siblings, she faces her past and the tension between her and her siblings after years of distance.
I encourage anyone who is Latinx and would like to be a part of this project to audition! Here’s the backstage link:
https://www.backstage.com/casting/from-yours-truly-394747/
This short is very important and personal to me. As a Latinx filmmaker, I strive to explore the human conditions that occur in my community. My intention is to create a space of healing and reliability with this film. Alcoholism within Latinx households is very prominent and has affected my family and numerous people around me. I wrote this as a way to cope and create a sense of reliability among peers to let them know that they’re not alone in this.
We plan to shoot April 9th and 10th, 2021 so getting funding for this is vital!
For total transparency as I believe transparency is the most important thing, here’s a breakdown of the budget (roughly, this could always change):
Cast/Crew: $575
Food: $300
Transportation: $90
Festival Submissions: $200
Wardrobe: $250
Set Design: $100
Note: This film will follow COVID-19 guidelines! As someone who has had many family members with COVID-19 and lost people, I value the safety and health of the cast/crew.
Please DONATE and SPREAD this! Be a part of the beautiful process of filmmaking, support me but most importantly the wonderful crew/cast
From Yours Truly,
Monica Sinaloa