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Logline

After Eliza, the town witch, is executed, Honor must confront her guilt and grief to save Eliza’s infant daughter from sharing her mother’s fate.

Synopsis

In the wake of a witch trial and hanging, a colonial town finds itself consumed with fear and paranoia. Livestock is dying. Crops are failing. People grow restless, facing a brutal winter with no supplies. Among the townspeople, Honor, a new mother racked with grief and anxiety, and Lilith, the reverend’s wife who speaks the word of God, find themselves haunted by the witch’s ghost. Their best friend, Eliza. As the women struggle to maintain a grip on reality, they lose themselves in memories. Reliving their critical final days with Eliza, and the truth buried since her death.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Kim Caicedo — Director
Kim Caicedo is a Colombian-American director who brings over a decade of experience in New York’s advertising world to her filmmaking, blending a sharp visual sensibility with emotionally grounded storytelling. Kim earned her MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute, where her thesis film Francis was awarded the DGA Jury Prize in the Latino category.

Teresa Catherine — Writer/Producer
Teresa Catherine is the executive producer and screenwriter of No One Likes a Mad Woman, and the founder of Maid & Prince Productions. Teresa is an award-winning filmmaker – her short film Only the Dead won Best Horror at Raindance NYC, her short film interiorem pueri made the Hot List at Cleveland International Film Festival, and her feature length scripts Dissent and No One Likes a Mad Woman were Semifinalists in Screenwriting at the Oscar qualifying Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. She holds a BA in Production Studies from Clemson University, and an MFA in Acting from The Catholic University of America.

Susanne McDonald — Producer
As Producer, Susanne McDonald is responsible for managerial aspects of the Company. She is a producer, actor, and director living in NYC but originally from Charleston, South Carolina. After having spent her formative years at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville and studying theatre at the Boston Conservatory, she pivoted to film in 2018. Most recently, she produced, wrote, and starred in Trivial Pursuits, which was an official selection in four New York Film Festivals, and co-produced and assistant directed Hero, which won several awards and was featured in over fifteen film festivals. She made it a point to hire three South Carolinians, all of whom were from Greenville, on her short film Trivial Pursuits, as Susanne is dedicated to uplifting the South Carolina arts scene.

Lauren Elizabeth Harris — Producer
Lauren Elizabeth Harris is an award-winning actor, producer and founder of Pathway Pictures. Pathway’s projects include Pink Moon(directed by SXSW alum Carol Brandt and starring Blu Del Barrio of Star Trek), Bat Sheva Guez’s Babies of Luna Park (The Gotham’s “Series Creators To Watch”), Cece Wheeler’s Winners and Losers, which received the Indian Paintbrush Grant. Harris co-created and starred in the feminist web series It’s A Girl Thing, an official selection at over 14 international film festivals. Her film Defining Dodo won the LGBTQ Voices Award at the HBO Sponsored Latino Film Festival. Recently, she wrote, produced, and starred in the coming-of-age film Friends Wanted, alongside Jodi Benson (The Little Mermaid). She works in development at Steve Buscemi’s Olive Productions and has prior experience with Voltage Pictures, Pretty Matches, and Double Nickel. She is a board member of SheNYC Arts, and produced their first feature film. She is also an active member of Women in Film, an associate member of WIP, and a former New York Events Leader for Film Fatales. She holds a BA in Acting and Spanish from USC and is an MFA Candidate in Creative Producing in Film from Columbia University.

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