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BINDING (Non-Dialogue Short Film)
Director: Jasleen Sangha
Compensation: A copy of the film will be provided.
Shoot Dates: October 20th, 2018
Shoot Location: East Vancover
Union/Non-Union: Non-union Unpaid
Submissions: If interested, please email [email protected], intended role (resume, or demo-reel not required but welcome)
Synopsis: In this non-dialogue short film, my goal is to tell a story about a woman (LAURA mid-20s) who is put in a helpless situation but comes out literally and figuratively on top. That is, her date (MARCO late-20s) is crowding her and using his body language to force his way into her home with her. Though she feels like she has to invite him in, even if she doesn’t feel comfortable or safe about it, she doesn’t let him disarm her enough to have his way. Her date subconsciously and consciously thinks he’s being smooth or manly, with the hopes that he’ll get the happy ending he so desires. But what he doesn’t know is that his date is a witch. So as he proceeds with trying to use the over-compensating masculinity he oozes with to “persuade” her into ending the night with him, she turns the tables on him. She uses her powers to make him feel as powerless as he made her feel outside her front door.
Characters:
LAURA- has been cast.
MARCO- Late 20s. An ex-frat boy, Marco is currently working full time at his father’s business. The second of five sons in his family, he’s learned to treat women the same way the men in his family have. He expects them to bend to his will with little effort as he’s a young, good-looking man. Seeing how his father got away with everything when it came to his mother, and his brothers were the same, he naturally followed suit. His mother was a small, emotional woman, always fighting with his father only to eventually give in to him. As such women, in Marco’s perspective, are a source of pleasure, inherently maternal, emotional, and physically weaker than men.
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This story is an assignment and is meant to be a representation of how women feel when dating and meeting new people sometimes.
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