Rebekah's Closet :: Short Film

Rebekah's Closet :: A Short Film

My name is Amy Hoskins. I am a visual artist, writer and survivor of child abuse, creating with disabilities from my home studio in South Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

To learn more about my artwork and sign up for my newsletter, visit my website at www.amyhoskins.com

CREATION

Rebekah is a young American designer in Paris before the Millennium who has to face her horrific past in order to heal and love again.

Rebekah's Closet started as an art therapy project and ended up as a novel employing magic realism, at 426 pages. I self-published it on Amazon, Nook and Google in 2011.

By 2018, I had written a screenplay by the same name, this time focusing more on the holistic healing model that has helped me heal so much. The script's overarching plot is Rebekah's fragmented, magic, surreal and mystical sense of reality.

In 2022, after the first class of the Artist Entrepreneur Training, which I'm part of through the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville, I decided to make Rebekah's Closet a reality.

WHY NOW?

Child abuse has increased since the pandemic. Girls' and women's rights are being challenged. Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. Every 9 minutes that person is a child. Of assault cases reported for children to law enforcement, 93% knew the perpetrator.

WHY REBEKAH'S CLOSET?

Of 113 "movies about child sexual abuse" on Wikipedia, only 4 were positive, healing stories. The rest were exploitative and violent.

Rebekah's Closet is a positive healing story, that de-stigmatizes getting mental health treatment, and educates about the effects of child abuse. It is my hope that the healing model contained in Rebekah's Closet can help others healing from childhood trauma.

Rebekah's Closet is a romantic, psychological thriller with a happy ending. It is a mixture of darkness and light, in the same genre as Pan's Labyrinth and What Dreams May Come.

As a treat, please see the ending of the video linked above. I read a few scenes from Rebekah's Closet to give you a taste of the film.

PLANNING FOR 2024

We hope to film Rebekah's Closet for ten days in 2023, and have the completed short film ready to submit to film festivals by 2024, with the long view of creating the full-length feature art film by 2028.

We will include a content warning and end card featuring RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline.

In 2024, we would like to host screenings of Rebekah's Closet with trauma-informed professionals and artists in the viewing audience, to be there for anyone triggered by the film, and offer help and resources.

NEXT STEPS

We have a draft budget of $100,000 for talent (including Actor/Producer Heather Lannan as Rebekah), film crew, editors, craft services, etc. The budget is available upon request.

We seek financial and in-kind donations of any amount in support of making Rebekah's Closet a reality.

10% of funds raised through my GoFundMe page will be donated to RAINN to continue their vital work to support survivors and their loved ones.

Please get in touch with me if you would like to donate your expertise or other in-kind services, or to see the budget.

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Thank you for any support and guidance you can provide!

Have a blessed day!

Amy :)