it's freezing out There

When you feel young, but your ladyparts don’t.

A web-series about Pepper, a mid-30s story-boarder by day and illustrator by night, feels trapped when she learns her "ovarian reserve" - ie the eggs left in her ovaries - is dwindling. All of a sudden she realizes she wants a baby but that her relationship is on the rocks. The man she's with has it all - a job he loves and time to wait and figure out whether or not a family is in the cards. She wants it all but doesn't know how to make that dream come true. While sorting out her feelings about life, career, and what it means to be an artist, she explores cryopreservation - egg freezing - and discovers it might be the pause button she needs while she puts the puzzle together. Throughout the series we watch how her art and life are entwined yet also somehow separate. It's a story about coming out and finding yourself at a fork in the road.

Learn more at itsfreezingoutthere.com.

I Am a Seagull 

I am a Seagull follows a community of actors in their frenzied and loving attempt to stage a Chekhov play in their front yard.

Life and rehearsal blend together in this filmic portrait of The Seagull, an abiding fable that plumbs the splendors and hazards of our human need to create art and make contact with one another. The play is interpreted by a handful of top shelf stage actors from New York City as they converge in an upstate lakeside retreat where they live and breathe Chekhov. Surrounded by a menagerie of paper lanterns, circus tents, ten-foot tall puppets and floating furniture, the players merge with the reckless choices of their characters. In full view of their fellow artists as well as a wider participating audience, the performers’ most intimate impulses are splayed open and made public.

Through juxtaposing phases of rehearsal, live performance and pure cinema this hybrid documentary captures the idealism, contradictions and raw instinct that fuels theatre-making itself. An art form that bursts into life for a brief moment, witnessed by a committed few, and then disappears.

Learn more at iamaseagull.com.

Decades of Mason Caroll 

Mason Carroll wants to be in a long lasting relationship, except he hasn’t aged since the 1940s. Fearing what might happen if his secret were to get out, he learns to get into and then out of romantic relationships until his latest love and a visitor from his past force him to confront his fears.

Learn more at kitemonkeyproductions.com.