Office Space meets Ed Wood meets Silicon Valley
GENRE
A Female-powered comedy about virtual reality device. Fed up, Sam leverages the YouConnect shoot as cover for her own independent film production. Enlisting her rag tag crew as well as her own crazy family, Sam breaks every rule and even the law to get her own film made. Sam gets more than she bargained for when she discovers that the YouConnect has mystical powers that force her to confront her own worse enemy…herself.
CHARACTERS
Sam – Indie Filmmaker stuck in soul sucking job who engages in questionable acts to get her film made.
Spencer – Female programming genius in kilt and cape. Creator of the YouConnect – Elite Cloud’s sacred new device.
Ma – Sam’s Pragmatic and no frills Mother.
Rolf – Sam’s Camerawoman. A buttoned up perfectionist that inadvertently gets spiritual change.
Palmer – Tyrannical CEO of EliteCloud looking to squash spiritual connectedness in our technology driven world. Richard Jenkins
Shelly Masters – EliteCloud Executive and part of the Boys Club
LOG LINE
One woman's quest to follow her dreams while working a soul sucking job at a tech giant leads her to desperate questionable acts which spiral into corporate espionage and the trip of her life down the rabbit hole into “virtual spirituality.”
SYNOPSIS
Shooting Palmer is a female powered comedy about spiritual connectedness in our technology driven world. Samantha (Sam) spends endless hours directing mind numbing corporate videos at Elitecloud, an internet giant. While Shooting CEO Dick Palmer’s company wide address, Sam suffers a humiliating sexual harassment scandal.
When she is offered a promotion in exchange for keeping quiet, Sam is tasked with shooting the launch video for the YouConnect – Elitecloud’s most sacred virtual reality device. Fed up, Sam leverages the YouConnect shoot as cover for her own independent film production.
Enlisting her rag tag crew as well as her own crazy family, Sam breaks every rule and even the law to get her own film made. Sam gets more than she bargained for when she discovers that the YouConnect has mystical powers that force her to confront her own worse enemy... herself
PRODUCERS
Deborah Moore – Dumb and Dumber, Mask, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Caron Carlyon – Wild Oats, Render Me Dead
DYNAMIC DUO
Producer/Director/Story – Sue Corcoran
Writer – Angie Louise (Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, Gory Gory Hallelujah, Circus of Infinity)
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