Veil - TV Pilot

After a biological disaster contaminates the planet’s atmosphere, the wealthy have escaped into technologically advanced “clean zones” and left the less fortunate to fend for themselves in areas exposed to infected air. After a bad drug trip triggers dissociative memories of her identical twin sister, a drug dealer named Alayna Maddix travels to these clean zones to make sense of the hallucinations. When a case of mistaken identity thrusts her into a ring of dangerous antique smugglers, Alayna discovers all is not what it seems.
                                 

Veil  is one of two full-length Television Pilots that will be produced by Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. The pilot is slated to start principal photography this winter 2017 for 6 days and is on track to be completed in May with applications to TV festivals starting right then after. 

We are striving to take the television program into on-location shooting— for that you need your help!


With Veil , we aim to elevate the quality and production value of typical student projects. Taking inspiration from the likes of Blade Runner and Children of Men which utilized famous real-life locations and landmarks, we feel that grounding Veil's strange setting in our own reality will help accentuate the cautionary undertones of the story. It is very important to us that we focus on production design and shooting on location--but both of these cost a lot of money. 


In an attempt to do justice to the decaying alternate future, a substantial portion of Veil's budget is funneled toward production design and art. 

Money raised by this campaign will be allocated to location costs with any extra being happily given to the art department. 


Showrunner: Kaelyn Witherow
Kaelyn is a screenwriter finishing up her last year at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. She began writing short stories and novels at a young age having fallen in love with gothic horror after reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe and HG Wells. In High School, her attention switched to writing for the screen and she has since dedicated herself to pursuing a career in writing for television.



Producer: Sarah de LeonSarah is a So-Cal native born and raised in San Diego currently earning her Bachelors degree in Screenwriting with a minor in Television Production at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Although writing is her first passion, in the past year she has grown on her own as a self-taught producer in which she's produced two student webseries and one independent short film. She's very passionate about television and hopes that this pilot marks the beginning of her career in this industry.



Director: Erin Lau
Erin Lau received her bachelor's degree in film production from the University of Hawaii and Manoa (UH). The work she produced at UH has been recognized in film festivals across the globe including Guam ,France, Rarotonga, Shanghai, and Hawaii. Until recently, she worked as a videographer and editor for Oiwi TV, a Hawaiin-community focused grassroots news and documentary production company. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA in film directing at Chapman University.



Director: Yelena Krivosheyeva
Yelena was born and raised in central Russia where she fell in love with storytelling at a young age. She worked as a journalist for a local newspaper and cable network since she was a teenager and went on to study journalism and advertising at a university. After she moved to the United STates, she realized that journalism and advertising wasn't the form of storytelling she was looking for and committed herself to the path of becoming a filmmaker. She completed a professional study in editing and visual effects from Emerson College and worked as a freelance artist until she came to Chapman University to pursue her MFA in directing.



Production Designer: Marc de Bertier
Marc is in his junior year at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts majoring in Production Design and has designed over 10 student films. Born in Milan, Italy and raised in Paris, France, he is always looking for new challenges and has been involved in several films overseas including Japan, Australia, and Zambia.



Cinematographer: Trevor Roach
Born and raised in Indianapolis, IN, Trevor is completing his third year as a graduate student at Chapman University with an MFA in Cinematography. He was a finalist nomination for the 2016 Kodak Award Scholarship in Cinematography for teh film, Look at Me. Having shot a wide variety of work--ranging from short films, music videos, and commercials--his work often features softer, naturalistic lighting with subtle, elegant camera movement. While lighting is very important to him, the use of camera through lens choice, angle, and composition to help tell the story are his biggest passions.



Composer: Ryan Stratton
Ryan Stratton is a composer and multi-instrumentalist for film, tv, and other media. He began scoring to picture at the age of 15, and has since explored a variety of mediums in a number of different genres. Proficient in piano, guitar, bass, drums and orchestral/world percussion, Stratton performs on many of his own scores. His work on the short film Infinite was nominated for Visionfest New York´s Best Original Score award. Notable credits include Gardeners of the Forest, a Student Academy Award finalist, Christmas with the Karountzoses, a Greek Christmas comedy available on iTunes, and Beyond the Edge, a science fiction feature film starring Casper Van Dien and Sean Maher.


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