Our Goals:
- To create powerful roles for women in cinema.
- To use the Sci-fi and Horror genres as a catalyst to continue the dialogue around oppression in all it's forms.
- To use Cosima episode one in it's completion as promotional tool to create the series in it's entirety.
- Most importantly, to create our own opportunities as actors and filmmakers.
Our Vision:
Imagine The OA meets Mad Max Fury Road. Our story takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland of desolation and destruction. Two sisters, Daya and Lily have been kidnapped by a deranged doctor who’s mission is to alter women’s bodies in ways to repopulate the world as he sees fit. Surviving the end of their world as they once knew it, they must continue to live in limbo of one world ending and a new one beginning while fighting the powers of patriarchal homogenous dictation.
The root of Cosima is to examine the human characteristics of how and why people survive. Our goal is to put complex, female driven narrative on screen that tells a story about women depending on each other for survival and strength. To tell the tale of a meaningful and magical bond between two sisters.
* Images: Stills from the Cosima© promotional film
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The Cosima Team:
Roxanne Morrison and Premstar Santana are the creators of COSIMA©. They met in acting class several years ago where they became fast friends and developed a undeniable working chemistry as actors and creators. Vowing to work together on a project, the idea for Cosima was birthed many years ago and they have been waiting for the right moment to put it into production. They brought on award winning director Ben Gilbert and actor/writer Aaron Michael Davies who both have a love and taste for horror and science fiction genres. Ben and Aaron took the idea of Cosima and ran with it, pumping it full of adrenaline.
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Moonfaze Films:
Founded by Premstar Santana and Ben Gilbert, Moonfaze Films is a collective of artists whose lives are dedicated to telling stories via the film art form. We are rebel magic makers telling surreal truths. We are determined to unmask the masked and invoke the light in darkness. We are willing to take risks and unwilling to wait for permission to do so.
Awards:
SEER
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Berlin International Cinefest 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION - LA Shorts Fest 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Comic Con International Film Festival 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION - California Women's Film Festival 2017
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Texas Cinemaina International Film Festival 2017
LUNA
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 40th North Dance Film Festival 2016
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Les Femmes Underground International Film Fest 2017
Team Bios:
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DIRECTOR - Ben Gilbert has directed numerous short films, all of which he has edited, color graded, and done visual effects for. He won Best Director at the City Shorts Film Festival in San Francisco for his film The Forest. Ben has also color graded and edited a variety of feature films and commercials, having worked with companies such as Petrol Advertising, Simple Films, Altarboy Productions and Last Wave Films. He is the co-founder of Moonfaze Films, a production company he started with his wife Premstar Santana. Currently Ben's film SEER, a Moonfaze Films production, is making a splash on the indie festival circuit receiving official selections from renowned festivals including LA Shorts, Berlin International Cinefest and the California Women's Film Festival.
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ACTOR/CREATOR - Premstar Santana is an award winning SAG - AFTRA actor, a filmmaker & Founder of Moonfaze Films and the Moonfaze Feminist Film Journal (formerly known as the Moonfaze Feminist Film Festival). She is also a photographer and a multidisciplinary artist. With over a decade of acting training & experience, and a background in dance & design, Premstar has created a unique body of work that speaks from the heart, and to the heart. Her goal as an artist is to be constantly creating and collaborating, bringing important stories to life in the most truthful and beautiful ways. Premstar is her given name. Most people call her Prem, which means Love in Hindi.
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ACTOR/CREATOR - Roxanne Morrison is an actor and recent graduate of UCLA, majoring in Gender Studies and minoring in Theater Arts. Along with being an actor she is an artist, social activist and producer. She has worked and performed with Parsons Nose Production Company, VCT, and Pacific Repertory Theater and UCLA.
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WRITER - Aaron Michael Davies entered the industry as an actor, with a body of work ranging from shorts to features, web-series to television, and rounded out with a little Off-Broadway. He couldn't be more thrilled to be working -- off-camera -- with such a solid group of artists who take pride in each other's love of all things weird.
A HUGE THANK YOU
for being a part of the movie making magic and joining our team. We are thrilled to have you on board.
Warmly,
The Cosima Team
www.moonfazefilms.com
