New Mexico Girls Make Movies!

Their talent leaps off the page. Their intelligence, energy, and enthusiam lights up a room. They are the girls of New Mexico Girls Make Movies and they need your help.


BOTTLED UP by Sara Casaus—the 2017 winner of the New Mexico Girls Make Movies Grant—is a short comedy about a young girl who goes shopping in an unusual store for a remedy for her ailment.

Sara's script is being turned into a short film by 20 girls and 10 mentors.


What We Need
BOTTLED UP will be in production June 1–5, 2017.

We are seeking $5,000 in financial donations to support BOTTLED UP's production.  We hope to raise the funds by May 24, 2017.

Donations will be processed by the New Mexico Film Foundation and are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Anything you can give will be greatly appreciated and everyone who donates will be credited in the end credits of BOTTLED UP.

Please help our writer/director Sara and her crew of 19 gain invaluable experience and realize their filmmaking dreams.


Who We Are
New Mexico Girls Make Movies Short Film, through the New Mexico Film Foundation, is a state-wide outreach program that provides education and job training to New Mexico girls and young women in the film and television industries.

The New Mexico Girls Make Movies Grant offers New Mexico girls and young women the opportunity to submit their original screenplays, shorts stories, comic books, and poems for the chance to turn their story into a short film with the support of a professional film crew.  Select finalists will be on the crew on the winning short film.

From screenwriting to editing, girls learn the filmmaking process guided by mentors in their area of interest and have fun along the way!

In this, our first year, we had entries from girls and young women, ages 12–25, from all across New Mexico, including Albuquerque, Corrales, Deming, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Los Lunas, Lovington, Portales, Rio Rancho, Roswell, Santa Fe, and Taos.

With over 65 entries, our judges had their work cut out for them and the decision-making process wasn’t easy.

And now (drumroll, please!) the winners of the 2017 New Mexico Girls Make Movies grant competition!

Winner:
Bottled Up (screenplay) by Sara Casaus

Finalists:
Timeless (screenplay) by Ruochen Bo
Moments Out of Time (screenplay) by Kiki Gonglewski
A Good Day for Stew (screenplay) by Lily Wickstrom
Theresa H. Johnson’s Purloin Palooza (short story) by Loulee Wilson

Honorable Mentions:
Tierra Madre (short story) by Natalie Flores Wilson and Nemali Hypolite
C 8 H 10 N 4 O 2 = Coffee? (short story) by Victoria Gonzales
A Place Where Nobody Dies (short story) by Kyree Mackey
You Can Never Leave (short story) by Morgan Wilder
The One (short story) by Yarely Rosas