Plan b – A Workplace Comedy About A Women's Health Clinic.

Brought to you by Gemini Award Winning Filmmaker Karin Lee

And Executive Producer Rachel Talalay (Hairspray, Ally McBeal, Bomb Girls) 

Plan b, an original and controversial television pilot, sweeps us into the private world of an women's health clinic that offers reproductive and sexual health care, including its most controversial procedure - abortion, and it's opposition -  a religious pro-life organization.  

Plan b expands our awareness on and explores the fragility of choice and freedom of speech. It is timely, topical and necessary in order to curb the accumulation of myths and rising hysteria regarding clinics which provide abortions.  This series is not only politically relevant, but touching, funny, and simply about the ups and downs of humanity. It's a challenging concept for television, and I urgently need your support to help cable channels like HBO or Netflix green light this series.  

I invite you to contribute to this indiegogo campaign so we can raise $20,000 to complete post-production work on one of the most controversial television series to ever air!  

The Story

Our main character, Ruby Harper, lands a job as an abortion clinic counselor and reunites with her old friend, Tracy, who works there as a nurse. Ruby's daughter, Amber, becomes infatuated with a high school jock, Louis, and the antics get out of hand!  Meanwhile, pro-life protesters find a willing citizen to convert, the seventeen year old boyfriend of thirteen year old Alannah who must make a serious decision about her pregnancy... and much, much more!

Why We're Doing This – a message from Karin Lee

About 10 years ago, a friend was showing me around a local women's health clinic. I went into a file room and saw hundreds and hundreds of charts, and I wondered about the personal stories behind each and every single one of these files – who were these women? What decisions did they have to make? 

I started making this pilot because I knew the circumstances were different behind each woman – that it was often so heartbreaking and difficult for each one to decide the outcome of the pregnancy they had to go through – whether it had happened willingly or not. As I began to research further, I met such caring, devoted, and compassionate staff, and even through all their struggles and responsibilities, I found theirs to be an incredibly heartwarming story. 

With all the tension and violence they experience, they continue to provide not only safe healthcare, but emotional support throughout, often at the cost of their own peace of mind. They provide respectful, non-judgemental care, and it was something to be admired, watching them do this. Just as any people who have to work in any conditions where they are constantly threatened, these individuals still manage to keep their spirits high and have a sense of humour about them! 

Plan b is a tribute to all those who care for, support, and want women to be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their lives. I am presenting it in a series format being this topic is a continuing conversation, and cannot be justified with one standalone statement. 

Our Goals

I am at a crucial stage of finishing the pilot to make it available for television broadcasters to acquire it and to finance a television series.  I have and continue to ask people out of the goodness of their hearts, who believe in the importance of this film's themes to help me get this pilot made.  I invite you to part a part of this and help us make this show and series a reality!

Why We Need Your Support:

As an independent filmmaker, what is most important to me is to connect with my audiences and have you be a part of the crucial wave of support to bring a controversial drama like this to television.

I have used my own funds to make this film over the last year.  I shot with a RED Epic camera, and convinced so many talented crew and cast to work for free. I need your help to continue shooting and editing the film with the best talent possible!

I would greatly appreciate your support to help us create this unique television pilot and bring this to audiences worldwide by convincing broadcasters to show it on their cable or network station.

The funds we receive from your contributions will be utilized to pay for crew, equipment, off-line and on-line editor fees, sound edit and sound design fees, studio fees, musicians as well as music rights clearances and campaign reward distribution. 

If we are able to raise $30,000. we will be able to use the additional funds to get started on the second episode of the series which has already been written.  If we are able to raise $40,000. the rest of the 10 episodes for the first season can be written.

We truly hope to get our television series on the air and we need your support to make it all happen! 

Director's bio:

Writer/Director/Producer Karin Lee is a Canadian Academy of Film and Televison Gemini Award winning director. She has directed films and videos, both fiction and documentary which have screened in festivals around the world and broadcast on networks in the US, Canada and Asia.

Her credits include the Gemini Award winning documentary Made in China, Oysters and Chocolate, Shattered, Comrade Dad, My Sweet Peony, Little Heaven and Earth and Passage of Dreams. She recently produced Cedar and Bamboo and 1788.

Lee’s films have been screened throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including London, New York, Taipei, Leipzig, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver,  L.A., San Francisco and Chicago.  Her television shows have been broadcasted by major Canadian and American networks throughout her career.

With Plan b she hopes to speak for many women, and even men and children who have experienced opposition to a woman's right to choose.  

To learn more about Karin Lee's films please visit her webpage (website:  http://karinleefilms.yolasite.com/) and youtube channel: (https://www.youtube.com/user/karincilee).

Executive Producer: Rachel Talalay has worked as a director and producer in film and television for the past 20 years – in the UK, the US, and Canada. Recently she directed Wind in the Willows for the BBC, Durham County and Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, based on the Giller Prize winning novel, for TMN/TMC/ITV. Her eclectic credits include directing Tank Girl, Freddy’s Dead (Nightmare on Elm Street 6), and more than 50 episodes of television in the US, UK, and Canada from Ally McBeal to Touching Evil to Without a Trace. Her producing history is equally varied – from John Waters’ Hairspray (the original) and Cry Baby to several of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchises (parts 3 and 4). Rachel also worked as a Production Executive for New Line Cinema.

Please send us your contributions!

If you can contribute even a small donation, we have some fantastic perks, including paraphernalia from the set, including original pro-life protest signs and our exciting series of condom boxes.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING PLAN b!!!!

1. Contribute to this campaign and help spread the word about this exciting new series! With your help we will keep the discussion on this important issue continuing – and help spread awareness about something that affects all of us – control over our own bodies. 

2. Share this page on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or any other social media site, and tell everyone you know! http://igg.me/at/planbtvseries

3. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr for updates, and view our full cast list here! 

We'd really appreciate getting the word out in any way you can! Thanks so much!