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“AS YOU ARE - A SHORT FILM”


AS YOU ARE

Hi All!

Thank you so much to everybody who donated to make this film a reality! As you can see, we are so close to completing the project!

PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR TRAILER HERE.

We still need to raise about $3,300 in order to finish paying our post-production crew and cover festival submission fees! We want to make sure as many people as possible who need to see this film can! Please consider helping us to finish up our incredible journey! Thank you so much :)


Here is a refresher of some details about the film:


LOGLINE
AS YOU ARE is a poetic drama about an interabled queer couple that spends the night together for the first time, and must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.


SYNOPSIS
“As You Are” is a romantic, identity-based, art cinema film. We’re introduced to a particular day in the 6th month of the relationship between Millie, a young woman with a spinal cord injury, and Piper, a young woman traumatized by her family’s maltreatment of her queerness. The film moves through the night Millie invites Piper to spend the night in her dorm room with her. It deals with the challenges that come with loving someone in a world that doesn’t acknowledge their existence. This film aims to subvert the status quo of what “normal” intimacy looks like and examines what lengths one will go to understand those they love.

WHY
As a multi-organ transplant recipient, I grew up always wanting to see bodies that reflected mine in the media I consumed. I believe this film will be a representation for people who have never seen their stories reflected back at them. As a film committing to providing authentically disabled and queer representation, we are actively looking for people/companies to make the project possible. As a new era of queer and disabled people is coming of age, it is vital that they see their stories of love being told to show their bodies are deserving of love. With films like CODA being ushered into the mainstream, this is the moment that not just disabled stories, but intersectional disabled stories ought to be told.

TEAM

DAISY FRIEDMAN - WRITER / DIRECTOR
Daisy is a queer, medically-complex filmmaker and creative writer. She's a second-year Film Studies student at Barnard College of Columbia University. She is a 2020 National Scholastic Gold Medal winner and American Voices Award Winner in Poetry. Her scripts have won Semi-Finalist awards at the Omaha Film Festival and Los Angeles Student Film Festival. She's the founder of EmpowHer Magazine and the Whoopsie Daisy podcast.


JUSTINE SWEETMAN - PRODUCER
Justine Sweetman is a creative producer based in Queens, New York. She is the founder and owner of REALnew Collective, a production company and film collective dedicated to supporting and empowering women, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC creatives. Her producing credits include HOW TO RAISE A BLACK BOY (2021, NOWNESS premiere, Filmmaker-to-Watch Award Atlanta Film Festival 2021), A WOMAN EATS (2020, NoBudge Audience Award 2020), and THE AGENT (2022, premiering at Atlanta Film Festival 2022). Her most recent narrative short MY BLACK ALCHEMY (2022) was commissioned by Paramount and appeared across broadcast and social platforms as part of their Black History Month initiative.

EVE ROBITSHEK - CO- PRODUCER
Eve Robitshek is a Los Angeles-based Producer who focuses on narrative films, documentaries, and music videos. Hailing from the small town of Traverse City, Michigan, her passion in diverse narratives through visual storytelling has led her to work on projects with a variety of different genres and styles. She currently attends the University of California, Los Angeles for Film and Television, with a concentration in Producing.




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Donations 

  • Patrice Toledo
    • $15 
    • 6 mos
  • Jim Leftwich
    • $15 
    • 11 mos
  • Rhonda Collier
    • $100 
    • 1 yr
  • Erika & Phil Lucoff
    • $125 
    • 1 yr
  • Douglas Hoffman
    • $50 
    • 1 yr
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Daisy Friedman
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New York, NY

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