Shoot Santa Fe Pilot Project Award Goes to Chilling Look at Social Media<\/b><\/p>\n
by Anne Maclachlan<\/b><\/p>\n
In conjunction with the Santa Fe Film Festival, IATSE 480 and the Santa Fe Economic Development Center, and with support from a range of contributors, Shoot Santa Fe\u2019s 2013 TV Pilot Project award went to the trailer for the chilling short #nightslikethese<\/i>, a disturbing look at the de-personalizing consequences of growing up in the social media age.<\/p>\n
Submitted by writer and director Hannah Macpherson, along with mother-daughter team Angelique and Amber Midthunder, the #nightslikethes<\/i>e short won a full production package which led to the creation of the timely and suspenseful TV trailer #hashtag<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, this was such a fun project to work on. It was a great project made by a great group of tight knit, hardworking people and I’m happy to have been involved. And that’s clearly thanks to the SFFF and all of their sponsors,\u201d says Amber Midthunder, who stars in both #nightslikethese<\/i> and #hashtag<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Executive producer Angelique Midthunder chatted with the Santa Fe Film Festival about the trailer\u2019s development and what the Pilot Project award contributed to what they were able to achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to express our gratitude to the city of Santa Fe, Mayor Javier Gonzales, Jon Hendry of IATSE Local 480 and the Santa Fe Film Festival,\u201d she says, noting that it was due to a large number of prize contributions that made the trailer possible.<\/p>\n
Midthunder adds that Santa Fe is a dream film location. The sets, in the less well-known areas of Santa Fe, provided their own character. A normal, everyday feel to the film underscores its darkness. \u201cWe wanted to showcase Santa Fe as \u2018anytown\u2019 \u2013 not just as resorts, Westerns and zombies,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n
Both shorts strike an uncomfortable chord. \u201cSocial media [can be] like a car wreck,\u201d explains Angelique. \u201cYou\u2019re drawn to it; you just can\u2019t look away. And it\u2019s real. All these horrific stories, like the Slenderman attack where the two 12-year-old girls stabbed another girl something like 19 times, those are really happening.\u201d\u00a0 Expanding on the theme of social media and young people, she continues, \u201cThis is the first generation of teens that has grown up on the Internet. What does that do to them? How is that affecting the way they deal with each other?\u201d<\/p>\n
The resulting #hashtag <\/i>explores this concept. Certainly, the premise and execution are solid to begin with, but the award \u201ctook us above and beyond anything we would have been able to accomplish on our own,\u201d Midthunder says.<\/p>\n
NaNi Rivera, Director of the Santa Fe Film Festival, notes that this is \u201cnot a one-organization thing. We are very grateful to Jon Hendry, president of IATSE Local 480 for their support. Jon pulled a lot of the teams together to make the Pilot Project happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prize package was used for creating a professional TV show teaser, and included a cash award along with crew hours from IATSE Local 480; cameras, equipment and support services from Panavision; and goods and services from Elliot Location Equipment Rentals, Santa Fe Studios, Santa Fe Airport Grill, Duke City Catering, Oneheadlightink, and TM Equipment Rentals.<\/p>\n
As the final award segment of the Santa Fe Film Festival \/ Shoot Santa Fe competition, the winning trailer landed a pitch to a major Los Angeles television studio. The #hashtag team is now in talks with Lionsgate regarding the possibility of producing it as a TV series.<\/p>\n
Director Hannah Macpherson notes, \u201cDeveloping #hashtag<\/i> was exciting because, with television, you get the opportunity to tell a story over seasons, you get the chance to spend hours with the characters and watch them grow and change subtly. \u00a0The goal was to create a world – a very unique, strange, disarming place – that inspired lots of story. \u00a0This world had three parts for us – New Mexico, beautiful and isolating and inspiring in its own way, high school, and the world of social media, which literally is a character, a setting, for the online thriller that takes these teenagers on a dark and terrifying journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
#hashtag<\/i> is indeed as dark and terrifying as intended, and is enhanced by the production values contributed by the sponsoring organizations. It\u2019s the stuff of nightmares discovered to be real after all, in the morning light; and you will not be able to look away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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