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Turning Tables - A Short Film

Turning Tables follows Leon through his last night serving at his family owned restaurant.

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Turning Tables - A Short Film

Turning Tables - A Short Film

Turning Tables - A Short Film

Turning Tables - A Short Film

Turning Tables - A Short Film

Turning Tables follows Leon through his last night serving at his family owned restaurant.

Turning Tables follows Leon through his last night serving at his family owned restaurant.

Turning Tables follows Leon through his last night serving at his family owned restaurant.

Turning Tables follows Leon through his last night serving at his family owned restaurant.

Ruari Fay
Ruari Fay
Ruari Fay
Ruari Fay
1 Campaign |
New York City, United States
$1,100 USD 14 backers
110% of $1,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
We are young filmmakers hoping to provide a story that gives insight on the every day grind of waiting tables and the constant search for something greater. While it's a comedy primarily, the young characters offer lessons of self reflection that are oft-ignored.

About Us

We are starting production on our first 20-minute SAG short film entitled Turning Tables for a New York City short film competition. We all come from the service industry and while this film provides plenty of laughs, it is an introspective study of the self-doubt we each feel about our true passions every single day. Hopefully, the film can provide a small inspiration for anyone who feels too complacent, but is afraid to take a leap of faith into something new.

Nearly every successful person we've ever met has always told us the same thing: "Don't wait. Create." We have finally taken the to the old cliche, no longer being the idle actor waiting by the phone. 

However, along with loftier goals comes loftier effort. As we have worked through a couple of projects we have started to incorporate more and more people and quickly learned that in order to meet our own expectations, this isn't something that we can continue to do on our own.

Where Your Money Will Go

We've set our goal for $1,000. Here's what it will go towards:

  • Crew: $800

 Nearly our entire budget is going towards our cinematographer and audio technician. The two most important aspects of making a film worthy of viewing.

  • Location: $200

We are lucky enough to know a couple of very gracious owner's of two locations in which we can film. But, that being said we would love to give back to them for each of the days we film there.

There are so many other costs and to be perfectly honest we would love to exceed expectations!

The Point of the Film

Young people working in hospitality are often overlooked by those who come in contact with them every day. Nearly all of them striving for another career, but as anyone knows, it's easier to dance with the devil (or any ambigous biblical reference) you know.

While this film is primarily a comedy meant to entertain, there are moments that speak to the self doubt that resides in all of us and the natural human fear of embracing the unknowns of life. 

Final Word

We all work in hospitality and we want to produce a quality project, but frankly, with our current budget in-house, it's not where we want it to be. Without any support, we will most likely have to cut out hiring an editor and going with a more budget friendly crew to shoot the film. So we are reaching out for help.

We are young professionals and are no strangers to major film sets (Michael J. Fox Show, Blue Bloods, The Americans). We know how to run sets ourselves, but we lack the trade skills of cinematography and audio capture in comparison with those who pursue that as a career. Their help is paramount and this cannot be stressed enough!

The Team:

Ruari Fay - Ruari is a SAG Actor based in New York City, he first tried his hand in film making years ago with a short called "Technically Adults." He's excited to get to work on another home grown project after working on many sets both large and small. Ruari has appeared as a costar on CBS's "Blue Bloods", NBC's "Law and Order: SVU", FX's "The Americans" and appeared as a lead in the History Channels "Last Days of the Nazis." He doesn't like taking credit for things too often, but he wrote this entire page.

 

Kevyn Mayhew - And out of the red corner, filming at 6’3 and weighing 170. KEVYN MAYHEW!

Commentator 1: Commentator 2, what can you tell us about this kid Kevyn?

Commentator 2: I like the kid. Hailing out of upstate New York Kevyn has shown all the makings of being the next great film maker

Commentator 1: You sure? I know as commentators I’m not suppose to disagree openly but the kid has a limited resume, only a few people find his jokes funny, and quite frankly- I had never heard of him until I read this bio.

 

Julian Gavilanes - Julian is a Seattle Washington Native. Since moving to New York in 2012, his career has been building momentum. Recent credits include; Mr. Robot, Gotham, Madame Secretary, Blue Bloods to name a few. He is currently writing a feature length film titled, "Phases," and looks forward to continue his creative journey.

 

Drew Bondeson - Drew Bondeson, 23 year old, New York based actor from Seattle, Washington. Drew’s been acting for 6 years and studied at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, in their Film and Television program where he earned a Associates degree in Fine Arts. Drew’s apart of a theater company, The Blockheads Artist Collective, he’s been with them for 3 years. He credits his success to his loving parents Lance and Lori.

 

Taylor-Rose Giampaolo -Taylor-Rose is a Detroit Michigan Native who moved to New York in 2011. Since then she has appeared in several indie films and started modeling. She currently works as the lead assistant in the touring Illusion show The Extreme Magic of Eric. She is excited to take a leap off of the stage and get back behind the camera.

 

Meredith McLoughlin - Meredith is a Florida born, NYC based actor, musician, performer, and artist. She has been active in the arts since a young age, and has performed all over the country. She graduated from The New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts and has since been pursuing a career in the arts in as many areas as she can. She has recently been working on live television sets for Jimmy Kimmel, TRL and various MTV programs, as well as doing makeup work for photographers/performance venues and companies such as Wilhelmina NYC. She is looking forward to getting in front of the camera again so she can stop rewatching the same episodes of parks and rec and eating her weight in cheese sticks.

 

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Get an official Associate Producer Credit in a SAG short film?! Wow-eee. Your producing career is taking off, you might even be further along than us at this point. Frankly, we're jealous. OH. Plus the other stuff included in this contribution package too.
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