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Logline

A young woman chasing her dreams is pulled into the Pandora’s box of bipolar disorder and must define a new normal for herself.

Synopsis

Andrea has been obsessed with the 40’s and 50’s costume designs and the stars that wore them. And now it’s all she dreams of – to be Costume Designer for the silver screen and find a real love. Andrea hits some bumps in the road and comes to learn that she has undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Her world and her concept of herself is turned upside down. She takes on the disorder, finding her passion for love and art as she must define a new normal for herself.

Paying tribute to the classic cinema that inspired Andrea’s dreams, we journey through Andrea’s everyday menagerie of thoughts, imagination, and emotions…which all escalate in a time of crisis. We follow her internal dialogue as she engages in imaginary conversations with golden-era Hollywood actresses she loved and was inspired by, only to find these actresses increasingly take on a different voice…the voice of her bipolar disorder as it worsens. As Andrea’s bipolar takes on these aspirational personas, manipulating Andrea’s decisions, we see her struggle against herself as she battles to win the flight… it will take everything in her to get her life back on track – before she’s burned everything she cares about down to the ground.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Karen Slade — Director
Karen Slade, Director, currently engaged with Kent State, starring Alec Baldwin, William H. Macy and Abigail Breslin. She’s also attached to direct The Last Bombshell, an award winning script with a Once-Upon-A-Time-in-Hollywood twist ending unpacking Marilyn Monroe’s mysterious last days. She has written and directed Dumbo, Down Under the Manhattan Brooklyn Overpass with DP Cybel Martin and The Failure, a short science- fiction Apocalyptic Crop Failure, shot by DP Richard Sands. Before film, Karen was a Creative Strategist in NY and London for Fortune 500 companies. She studied Cultural- Anthropology at Berlin’s Free University and received her Masters from Harvard.

Amy Olson — Writer/Producer
Amy Olson is a New York based Writer and Actress. In 2016 she earned her BA in film from the University of Washington, and after graduating moved to Los Angeles where she worked at WME providing Script Coverage, and Betty Mae as a Casting Assistant where her credits include Concrete Cowboy, and Ilya Naishuller’s Nobody. Since moving to New York she’s worked on multiple projects in film and television and travelled to London to be a part of a cohort workshop at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Ged Dickersin — Producer
Ged Dickersin has been working on feature films for 38 years, starting as an office intern on John Sayles’ film Eight Men Out, producing his first feature A Reason to Believe in 1992, and continuing to produce and line produce on over 40 feature films including City Island, The Guitar, Tallulah, Nanny, She Came to Me and the 3-time Academy Award Winning hit film, CODA.

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