What's the Project?
Lucy is a foreigner in New York City studying for her graduate degree at Columbia. Ben is a college drop out who waits tables at a café but has dreams of hanging his photos in a gallery.
Who We Were is a short film about Lucy and Ben and their struggle between love for one another and drive for personal success. The story is a non-linear romantic drama that follows Lucy through her relationship with Ben and beyond.
Who are the filmmakers?
This is the final school project for much of the crew, all students at Emerson College in Boston. The film is more than a class project though; it is a platform for us to showcase and share our skills with the world beyond Emerson.
Crew:
Matt Keyser - '13 - Writer/Director
Enrique Rivera - '15 - Producer
Dane Shubert - '13 - Editor
Jenell Randal - '13 - Production Designer
Tyler Weinberger & Tripp Clemens - '13 - Directors of Photography
Andre Edmonds '14, Matt Tompkins '15, Joe Holcomb '14, Dimitri Christoforidis '15, Sienna Mintz '14, Mikey Gray '15, Maria Chavez '14, Taylor Meacham '14, Anna Kuo '15, Dillon Puswald '15, Matt Park '15, David Lee '15, Dylan Greiss '15, Emily Tannenbaum '14, Louis Weissman '16.
While our crew is small, we’ve bonded over our dedication to the project and excitement is building for the final cut.
Where Your Help is Going:
The film takes place in Manhattan, though we’re saving travel money and shooting the interiors in Boston. We’re almost finished with filming, and the results are looking beautiful. Unfortunately, we’ve run into a few roadblocks along the way. Weather (Nemo found us), equipment rentals, and location costs are eating at the budget and we’re running out of funds to finish the project.
This is why we’re reaching out to you. We’ve poured our hearts and our pockets into this film and know that it has so much potential.
Logistically speaking, your donation will help fund:
-Equipment rentals (dolly, lenses, Sony F3 Camera, wireless lavaliere mics)
-Super 8 film (processing and digital transfers)
-Post Production (Hard drive and color correction)
-Production design (paint, photo printing, framing, set decoration, costumes/makeup)
-Travel expenses (to and from NYC for the exteriors, and for NYC actors to Boston)
-Craft services (a hungry crew is not a happy crew)
-Festival submissions
With your help, Who We Were will stand as a time capsule for everyone involved. This is a final point at Emerson and a starting point for many of us professionally. The film will be entered into numerous festivals across the U.S. and abroad.
Other Ways You Can Help:
We understand if you cannot afford to donate at the moment, but you can still help us bring our vision for Lucy and Ben to life!
Please share this page with friends, family, coworkers or whoever else you can think of. "Word of mouth" is huge for crowdfunding. Please post on facebook, twitter, or share our link via email. Indiegogo has easy share options located right underneath our video up top.
We also have a website, www.whowewerefilm.com. Please share that website and continue checking back for sneak peeks, trailers, and updates on the film's production.
Thanks in advance! Hope to have the film at a screening near you!
-Who We Were crew-
