Silver Lake Shorts Appreciation Post!!!! Last Friday we premiered our film “What Happens in Vegas” at Silver Lake Shorts at El Cid on Sunset Blvd. It’s a silly 6-minute short about codependent goths stuck in the suburbs, and it has a long history dating back to my first sketch writing class in LA (@ The Nerdist School which was also on Sunset).
This 5-page script was never really a sketch, so I changed it into a short, and heard it out loud at the park for what was randomly one of our biggest Barnsdall Table Read gatherings ever. You guys made it sound so much funnier than I had hoped it might sound, and I got a little bit excited.
Then
@cleveen.d asked if I wanted to screen something at The TrAInslator (watch now on YouTube) pilot premiere at Whammy and I was like YES I’LL MAKE VEGAS before accepting that I needed money to make it. So I started searching for money and for a beautiful pastel bedroom with identical twin beds. I asked
@baaaadams to play "Sisterfriend" in the film if I ever found the money and the beds.
Then Silver Lake Shorts announced that they wanted shorts for their new grant but they needed to be SHORT and produceable for $5k. Ok well. Guess what, I had a 5-page script and a dream!!!!!!! I made a pitch deck, asked Clev and my sister to revise my application 400 times, and freaked out when I saw the email that said I got the grant.
Fast forward through pre, pro, and post.
@underthenerdhood found the beds. We've got a really funny & sweet & weird short film that has been sitting in my head for like 7 years. Thank you so much
@_jared_vibes_corwin_ ,
@whynotbenton ,
@katbusball , my fantastic mentor
@dimitrisimakis , and quite a few more folks and sponsors behind the scenes making
@silverlakeshorts happen.
I am beyond grateful for every cent, but the vote of confidence and green light to make a movie was………invaluable. I’m still processing but whatever. Just want to say ty ty ty to the Silver Lake Shorts community for a wonderful fellowship year. More to come!!!!