A feature-length project in an early stage of pre-production, When Mama Went Away tells the story of A delivery driver who has no better option, but to take his little girl with him in his truck, delivering door to door, in the aftermath of a travel ban that keeps his wife from entering back to US.
How am I involved?
Idea and concept development
Directing and Producing
Network and Marketing
Highlight: Experimenting Docu-fiction
- Mom said she can't make it for supper for a few days, so I guess we'll be eating out a lot!
- Today you come to help me at work!
Ice cream freezes all problems, for a while...
Project Outlines
Structure
This is a low-budget feature length production with plenty of improvised scenes. The idea is to blur the lines between real and faction by spontaneous actions in the filming process.
Cinematography is planned to be unobtrusive to avoid disrupting the flow of genuine moments.
Main Ideas
With major economical and sociopolitical events such as Covid-19 pandemic, travel ban and the rise of Amazon in the background the story focuses on the relationship between a helpless child and an estranged father who has no option but to take responsibility of his daughter.
Aiming to address lack of social services for low income families and their children is one of the several themes of the storyline.
Execution
Project to undergo three stages of financing by approaching privet sponsors, crowdfunding and film grants.
Principal cinematography to last between 20 days to a month. Majority of filming locations are within limits of LA county.