Presley Dent
Presley Dent
by Katherine Shea
Katherine Shea
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This series is an offbeat riff on American politics during a troubling political climate, attacking current events from a fresh angle. (Animated monster fantasy series!) It's also artistically bold and innovative, using stop-motion to get its story across.
This series is an offbeat riff on American politics during a troubling political climate, attacking current events from a fresh angle. (Animated monster fantasy series!) It's also artistically bold and innovative, using stop-motion to get its story across.
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Inclusion Statement
The majority of the cast and crew of Presley Dent are women. It has a female writer/director and the leading cast is entirely women. It is also a voice for women animators, a historically underrepresented group of artists. And the show's story champions equal political rights and representation!About The Project
Presley Dent follows Betty and Alison, two young jingle-writers working on a presidential campaign. Their candidate, Presley Dent, is a dangerously charismatic woman who promises to restore peaceful relations between humans and monsters in an alternative universe that has gone totally off the rails.
Betty, an idealist fresh from a rural town, has little love for her new supervisor Alison, a jaded fashionista from the big city. The feeling is mutual – but the two women team up, hoping to help Presley win the presidency.
When a staff team-building expedition goes horribly awry, Betty and Alison face political fallout from a monster attack threatening human-monster relations in this politically volatile fantasy universe. It doesn’t take Betty long to learn that the world of politics is far more venomous than she ever imagined....
Presley Dent began as a stop-motion series made with Barbie Dolls, highlighting the goofy, high-schoolish mentality I saw in politics. It was the short that helped me get into CalArts – now it's making a comeback as my MFA thesis film.I have updated Presley Dent so that the puppets and sets will be specially constructed for the film. America's current political climate helped motivate this upgrade, but this style of animation has been my passion for years; this project will allow me to combine it with my love of making people laugh.
Incentives
$5
Credit
Every contributor will earn an on-screen credit for helping the film come together!
$15
Credit and Letter
If you pay $15, you'll get an on-screen credit and a letter of thanks from either Betty, Alison or Capucine (your choice)!
$25
Early Access and Digital Cookbook
You'll get a link to the film before it is released to the public! You'll also be getting a digital copy of Capucine's Not-Entirely-French Cookbook!
$30
Digital Download
Once the film is completed in Spring of 2018, you'll receive a copy in your e-mail inbox. You'll also recieve a digital download of the soundtrack and bonus audio!
$50
Film Poster
You'll recieve a physical poster based on the film! You'll also get a digital map of the world the characters live in.
+Above incentives
Claimed: 1 of 50
$100
Associate Producer Credit
On top of all the above incentives, you'll recieve an executive producer credit!
$1,000
Puppet Model
You'll recieve the above incintives along with a model of one of the puppets! This will be a casting of the puppet that can be used for display purposes.
Claimed: 0 of 3
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$5
Credit
Every contributor will earn an on-screen credit for helping the film come together!
$15
Credit and Letter
If you pay $15, you'll get an on-screen credit and a letter of thanks from either Betty, Alison or Capucine (your choice)!
$25
Early Access and Digital Cookbook
You'll get a link to the film before it is released to the public! You'll also be getting a digital copy of Capucine's Not-Entirely-French Cookbook!
$30
Digital Download
Once the film is completed in Spring of 2018, you'll receive a copy in your e-mail inbox. You'll also recieve a digital download of the soundtrack and bonus audio!
$50
Film Poster
You'll recieve a physical poster based on the film! You'll also get a digital map of the world the characters live in.
+Above incentives
Claimed: 1 of 50
$100
Associate Producer Credit
On top of all the above incentives, you'll recieve an executive producer credit!
$1,000
Puppet Model
You'll recieve the above incintives along with a model of one of the puppets! This will be a casting of the puppet that can be used for display purposes.
Claimed: 0 of 3
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Current Team
About This Team
KAT SHEA
Director/Writer/Stop-Motion Animator
I’m Kat, the writer and director of Presley Dent! I am in my second year studying at California Institute of the Arts in the Film Directing Program. I have experience in directing for both live action and animation. I recently finished shooting a live action comedy about a misguided Fairy Godmother helping her Godchild, a mother who is a recovering drug addict. I am drawn to writing stories about flawed and funny characters, especially female characters.
SINAH OBER
Producer
Sinah Ober was born in Germany’s Black Forest to a carpenter and a tailor. Her films are about personal perspective and individual experience. She is interested in childhood, femininity, sexuality, history, and trauma. Sinah graduated from the University of Iowa in 2012 with a BA in Cinema. She recently graduated with her MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her films have screened at several venues including the Student Experimental Film Festival at SUNY, the International Academic Video Festival in São Paulo, and the International Kansk Video Festival in Russia, among others.
SARA SUAREZ
Producer / Sound DesignerSara is from Virginia, where she studied English literature at the College of William & Mary. She is currently working on her MFA in film directing at CalArts; her films study psychological borderlines, prophetic visions, and the moral responsibilities of human beings. She loves science, horror movies, medieval poetry, and living on the planet Earth.
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