Make Me a Pizza

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In its journey so far the film has been a finalist for the AFI Directing Workshop for Women+, selected for the MovieMaker Magazine Production Services Program, and is being financed in part by an international artist grant. The screenplay was a finalist in the HollyShorts, FilmQuest, and Katra Film Series screenplay competitions also received support from Dame Products and The Stockroom. All of this is exciting for a film created in the spirit of fostering generative abundance and absurdity in the face of the world's many and constant reasons for fear and scarcity, and allows us to honor the spirit of hopeful maximalism that ignited the very first creative sparks of the project. The film was devised in rehearsal by the performer / creators Katie Peabody (EMINENCE HILL, LEAR'S SHADOW) and Woody Coyote (ANCHORAGE, The Nonsemble) in collaboration with director and fellow co-writer Talia Shea Levin. Mainly, we were inspired by pizza and sex, but also by the many purveyors of sleaze and revolutionary chaos who have come before us, from Karl Marx, to John Waters, to Anna Nicole Smith. Cinematographer Vittoria Campaner (DYE RED, ASC Vision Mentee '20) joined the team when she and Talia first met in the Peruvian Amazon at PlayLab's Filmmaking Lab, where they created short films under the guidance of Palme d’Or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This experience gave them a shared ability to listen to their boldest creative instincts and challenge themselves to innovate visually without compromising a commitment to rich storytelling. They are excited to apply this expanded perspective on the process of filmmaking to the pizza-verse.