WHAT DOES A NEUROTIC, OUT-OF-WORK ACTRESS DO WHEN HER THERAPIST DUMPS HER?? MARGO FOR REAL is about an out-of-work actress obsessed with therapy whose breakthrough leads her to break bad! It is a charming and hilarious take on the struggles and lengths that Margo will go to keep her dream alive! Starring Alicia Harding as "Margo," directed by Andrea Ashton, written by Michael Goldburg, and produced by Eva Minemar. Shot by Director of Photography Piero Basso. Be a part of this amazing group of filmmakers by donating today & joining our team. Every little bit counts and we can’t do it without you. As you all know, making movies is expensive and we rely on people like you to help further the art form. We’ve been able to secure a talented cast, technical equipment and lighting gear needed to complete shooting, to pay crew daily wages and feed them two meals a day, while working long filming days. We managed to rent necessary vehicles to transport sets, props and gear from one location to the other. Secure locations, Wardobe, etc. (Check out some behind the scenes shots and stills below!) NOW…the really expensive things come into play; post-production (editing, color correcting, music, ADR, etc...). Once that's all done, each entry into every single festival comes at a price (ranging from $50-$75 per submission) whether you end up getting selected or not. In this day and age, now more than ever it is so important to create your own work, spread the love of art and share your vision with others. Please consider supporting this heartfelt film and become part of our team - there’s lots of great perks, you could even become a producer! - and help us get this project out there! The deadline for us to raise the full amount is January 1st!!! We look forward to sharing our film with you. Thank you all for your support!! Videos and photos credit Philip Goldsmith, Kat DuPont Vecchio, & Eva Minemar MEET OUR TALENTED TEAM! ALICIA HARDING (ACTRESS/PRODUCER) Alicia Harding is a versatile actress currently residing in New York City. Raised in New Jersey by her show business parents, a Broadway dancer mother and actor/spokesperson father, she found her love of acting and dancing at a young age and began working professionally in her early teens. She took a hiatus to pursue her theatrical education and moved to New York City where she became involved in a variety of theater companies and performed professionally as a dancer around the world. Since then, she has worked extensively on both coasts in TV, film, theater and sketch comedy. She has appeared in some of America’s most popular television shows, dozens of national commercials, independent and studio films, and theater. www.aliciaharding.com ANDREA ASHTON (DIRECTOR) Driven and highly-accomplished writer/director Andrea Ashton captures both the humor and pathos of what it is to be human in short films, screenplays, and pilots that win awards, charm hearts, rack up tens of thousands of views, and get archives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an honor reserved for filmmakers whose work they feel represents “significant contributions to the art and science of motion pictures.” A Northern Californian turned Brooklynite, she’s been a second-rounder for both Sundance and Film Independent Labs and was one of only eight women selected for NYWIFT’s 2019 FS2P Lab. The films she has directed have played and won awards at festivals such as Tribeca, Cinequest, Dances With Films, the SENE Film Festival, LA Shorts Int’l Film Festival, the Palm Springs Int’l Festival of Short Films, and the Brooklyn Int’l Film Festival, to name only a few. Andrea’s also had the fortune to shadow television directors Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun, Reprisal) on Apple TV+’s The Changeling, and Rob Bailey (Criminal Minds, Lethal Weapon, CSI, Grimm), Scott White (CSI, Without a Trace), and Louis Shaw Milito (Lucifer, CSI) on Warner Brothers’ Gotham. A member of NYWIFT, Cinefemme, and Pano, she’s an active proponent of putting underrepresented individuals in front of and behind the camera. MICHAEL GOLDBURG (WRITER) is an award-winning writer/director who earned his M.F.A. at NYU's Grad Film Program. Michael's films have screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals, garnered numerous awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay, and are featured on Amazon Prime and Funny or Die. Michael has worked with creators from Comedy Central and The Onion, is a former script consultant with ScriptLaunch, and is an adjunct instructor at NYU Grad Film. Michael's celebrated feature screenplay, SURE-FIRE, is a top-ranked script on Coverfly and has placed in numerous top screenwriting competitions, including ScreenCraft, CineStory, Shore Scripts, ISA, Filmmatic, and Beverly Hills. His proof of concept short for SURE-FIRE has screened at numerous festivals, including the esteemed Catalyst Content Festival, and won multiple awards as well as the support of Sony Pictures Classics and Bleecker Street. Michael’s team for SURE-FIRE includes advisor Joe Pirro, Head of Production at Symbolic Exchange ("The Assistant"), founded by James Schamus (former CEO of Focus Features), who feels SURE-FIRE is one of the “funniest scripts he’s ever read” and Michael is “part of the next wave of emerging filmmakers to break through to wider audiences.” Michael is also developing multiple other projects, including a feature adaptation of a darkly comic novel by the former book editor of "The Chicago Tribune,” which he developed in Sundance Collab with Oscar-nominated screenwriter and advisor Naomi Foner; a television series based on a popular blog; and a feature adaptation of an artist's darkly comic memoir. EVA MINEMAR (PRODUCER) is an award-winning producer and a proud member of The Actors Studio Director’s Unit and Women In Film. She conceived and directed the touring women's theatre ensemble, ‘Angry Jellow Bubbles’, which was performed at the United Nations for International Women's Day. Eva is the Co-founder of both the LA LUPA Italian Cultural Arts Festival (LA LUPA FEST) and Mulberry Queens Films. It's through her production company, MQF that she's been able to continue to provide support for women in the theatrical arts, by giving women creatives an opportunity to have their work performed worldwide, without the pressure of commercial concerns. MULBERRY QUEENS FILMS is a unique boutique agency founded by female creative duo & close friends Eva Minemar and Dolores Diaz. Mulberry Queens Films provides production from concept to completion. Specializing in representing the unrepresented in TV & Film, MQ remains committed to supporting projects for women by women/womxn and equality both in front and behind the camera. MQ projects range from cutting edge documentaries, to feature film, TV, commercials, theater, and music videos, to film festival programming and event coordination. Current projects range from Sundance finalists, HBO, and Oscar qualified films, to award-winning cultural arts festivals around the world. PIERO BASSO (CINEMATOGRAPHER) Born and raised in northern Italy, Piero Basso graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the University of Turin, with a specialization in Cinema Studies. While writing his thesis on the works of David Lynch, he already knew that Cinematography would be his ultimate pursuit. Piero began building a career as a director of photography while also specializing as a Steadicam operator. He built his first years collaborating with some of the most talented director of his generation, including Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio and Susanna Nicchiarelli. In 2008 he moved to the United States of America, to New York, where he still lives today, while keeping a strong professional connection with Europe and Italy. In 2009, after being invited to join the AIC (Italian Association of Cinematographers), he was in competition at the 29th Turin Film Festival with Santina directed by Gioberto Pignatelli, and in 2011 he was the cinematographer for Sette Opere di Misericordia, debut feature film for Gianluca and Massimiliano de Serio, presented in Competition at the 64th Locarno Film Festival. The following years saw him mainly active in the USA shooting, between others, on Lanre Olabisi’s Somewhere in the Middle, Meredith Edwards’ Imagine I’m Beautiful and Rick Lopez's American Genius for National Geographic. In 2014 Piero comes back to Italy to light the first feature of Sebastiano Riso Più Buio di Mezzanotte, for a world premiere at the Semaine of the Critique during the 67th Cannes Film Festival the following year. In the latest years, Piero has been active on multiple fronts. He shot Min Alesh?, a feature film in Ethiopia with local creative team and talents, while working as well on The Independents with director Greg Naughton, Teresa Costantini on Here and Now, Marco Risi in L’Aquila Grandi Speranze, a television series on the aftermath of the 2009 Earthquake. He has teamed again with Sebastiano Riso for Una Famiglia, in competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival, and worked for the first time with Federico Bondi on Dafne, presented in the Panorama Section at the 69th Berlin Film Festival and winner of the Fipresci award as Best Feature Film of the section. In the USA he worked with director Robert Jury on Working Man, with Peter Gerety, Talia Shire and Billy Brown as lead actors and recently lensed the first feature film of screenwriter Daniel Talbott and actress Samantha Soule, Midday Black Midnight Blue. In 2018 he became the Chair of the Cinematography Program for New York Film Academy at the New York Campus. Piero Basso is based in NYC, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son. He is bilingual and holds permanent residency in the U.S and European Citizenship. IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1067887/ WEBSITE: www.pierobasso.com
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