I'm an actor, writer & director living in Florence, Italy. A few years ago I moved out here to work on new projects and somewhere along the line started running workshops for actors. These workshops developed into short film scripts for different characters and then developed again into a 45-minute TV Pilot called DIRTY OLD TOWN...

Florence is known around the world as one of the Renaissance capitals. A steady stream of chocolate-box productions have emanated from the city and Tuscany in general - and with good reason - it is a city rich with art, history and culture.

To begin with we were developing characters that could exist in any city... and indeed, these characters probably could. DIRTY OLD TOWN is a term that could apply to many districts of many cities... but here we are in Florence; it is at the very least the canvas for the scenes, although this won't be your average tourist-generating love letter.

So what we have are interwoven stories of dreamers and the sub-optimal life choices that they make along the way... although I'm not a huge fan of comparisons with other shows, script-readers have commented that there are elements of Shameless, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and The Office.

How you can help:

Production on the Pilot Episode begins in March 2017, and we would really appreciate your support: we are looking to raise an initial 5000 Euros which will cover various costs involved during the week of shooting: fuel, cast & crew food and other consumables, make-up & costume department, external hard drives and backups. Anything that is raised over this will be used during  the post-production phase and eventual promotion of the pilot to agents, networks and distributors: on a shoe string we have developed a 45 minute script that gets great feedback, the actors and crew are ready... now, in the words of Jasmin, we just need that 'push' that can come from you...

We have some fun things available on the perks page, so enjoy our pitch video to get a taste of the characters and take a look around the merchandise... exclusive prints, music downloads... or how about a Psychic Reading(?)... 

A huge thank you in advance for any support you can give to the project, feel free to ask us any questions, and look out for backstage updates and scene snippets that we will be posting throughout the shoot.

Here is a link to Fresnel's previous work.

Also please feel free to share our indiegogo page!