Love Bugs
Love Bugs
Short
· Other · 28 pages
Status: In Production
Lovebugs swarm the Texas Panhandle then splatter themselves on the fronts of passing cars while an outlaw poet, a ukulele-playing country girl, and a disgruntled couple follow the bugs example, choosing to enjoy life while they still can.
Written by
Heidi James
4 Accolades
Accolade Highlights
Coverfly Top 1% in Genre/Format
The Short List,
Barnstorm Fest 2020
1 Writer
Los Angeles, Ca
Raised by theater artists in Austin, Texas, before the “Keep Austin Weird” era—when Austin simply was weird, Heidi James was creating characters for her family’s traveling roadshow by the age of seven. Chewy dramas that exalt underdogs, rebels, and renegades are Heidi’s passion. She has two feature films in preproduction, a stage rock musical in dev...
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Additional Project Info
*Semifinalist Film Pipeline Shorts Contest *Best Screenplay HollywoodJust4Shorts *Semifinalist HollyShorts Film Festival *Spotlight Award Nomination Fresh Voices *Honorable Mention Barnstorm Currently: *Semifinalist Shoot Your Short *Quarterfinalist Your Script Produced *Quarterfinalist Fresh Voices This script was written for specific actors and visually striking locations currently available where I am quarantined. I intend this film to be a full-bodied somatic experience that visually compels and echoes in the watcher's tissue. The magical realism scene speaks to the US's history and the continued association of liberation with consumption and addiction.