PROJECT
Narrative Film
STATUS
Fundraising/Pre-Production
FUNDRAISING GOAL
$50,000
Crazy As A Loon
Inspired by true events, Crazy As A Loon is a short film/TV Proof of Concept about the Lavender Scare; the hunting down and purging of homosexuals from government jobs, rooted in fear and disguised as a Security Program that went for 60+ years in America. This story is driven by the constant competition between fear and morality.
Logline: A family’s matriarch, hunted down by an underground government unit the night of their son’s Birthday party exposes more than her perpetrators bargained for.
Tone: The voyeurism of Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” meets the being turned inside out by fear in “Vertigo”. The need to expose the government in “Good Night, and Good Luck” meets the blurry privilege in Rebecca Hall’s “Passing.”
It’s gritty. It’s suspenseful. It’s got FX vibes.
Please view our pitch deck here: VIMEO
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