THE RAIN PONCHO
New York City, New York | Film Short
Comedy, Family
Liz is a high strung, pot smoking therapist. Andrea is a laid back and totally inept hair cutter. The moms worry that their oldest daughter has a secret boyfriend or worse yet, a pimp! They're shocked to learn that it’s really their youngest daughter who has a big secret. It's a very stressful day.
THE RAIN PONCHO
New York City, New York | Film Short
Comedy, Family
1 Campaigns | California, United States
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Liz is a high strung, pot smoking therapist. Andrea is a laid back and totally inept hair cutter. The moms worry that their oldest daughter has a secret boyfriend or worse yet, a pimp! They're shocked to learn that it’s really their youngest daughter who has a big secret. It's a very stressful day.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
THE RAIN PONCHO will be a 15 minute short film. It tells the story of a day in the life of a family with 2 moms raising 2 teen girls in NYC.
The moms fear the worst about their oldest daughter, thinking she has a secret lover, a pimp, etc...Their stress and anxiety level increases throughout their already challenging work day. To find out what's really going on with their oldest daughter, they embark on some sub par Nancy Drew sleuthing. When they discover her secret, they’re shocked, and also relieved. And then when they go home that night, they learn that it’s actually their youngest daughter who’s been up to something worth hiding.
The RAIN PONCHO is about hormones and anxiety, secrecy and communication.
As Jennifer Aniston once said in some article I read, “life can be messy".
And this day, for this loving family, is no exception.
IN MY REAL LIFE...
I am the mom to 2 young boys. For me, the most amazing thing about being a parent is that every day I learn more about who my kids are. And I'm often surprised. I wouldn't have predicted that one of my kids would love to sew, and that the other one would love to act out scenes from "Home Alone".
And watching my kids evolve, reminds me that I'm still changing and growing. And that it's our family who gets to bear witness to our everchanging forms. Blah blah blah. You get it.
HOW MY OWN FAMILY STUFF RELATES TO THIS FILM...
For me, family means a loving space where people can evolve. I aim to create this space for my own family, and so does the family in THE RAIN PONCHO. They love eachother, but also step on eachother's tails, and then have to put the work in to repair.
The RAIN PONCHO moms are majorly not perfect: one of them smokes pot in between her therapy clients, and the other one is a hair cutter, who barely cuts any hair off. And even though they stumble through parenting...there's a lot of love and a willingness to try, that makes this story relatable and fun and super funny.
PLUS, MY MOM IS DRAWING STORYBOARDS FOR THIS FILM!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
LOCATIONS
Costs $2,500
We need to pay for the use of a hair salon, a dance studio, a therapy office, and an apartment.
FOOD FOR CREW
Costs $2,000
This money will go to feeding the cast and crew. It's super important to feed the cast and crew!
PRODUCTION DESIGN&WARDROBE
Costs $1,500
We need to buy props and wardrobe. Two rugs, haircutting scissors, smock, a rain poncho! Etc...
TRAVEL
Costs $1,500
Travel from LA to NYC 2 times to shoot this short, plus, fly my Prod Designer to NYC.
SOUND MIXING
Costs $1,500
Sound mixing costs money. No one does it for free.
SOUND KIT
Costs $1,500
We have to rent a sound kit.
COLOR CORRECTION
Costs $1,500
The movie has to look GOOOOOD, with consistent color.
FESTIVAL FEES
Costs $2,000
Costs $ to apply to festivals and to travel there and find a bed!
ADMINISTRATION/POSTAL SERVICES
Costs $1,000
This is for hidden costs like mailing hard drives and photos, promotion, posters, etc...
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
WRITER and DIRECTOR and ACTOR - Andrea Rosen
Hi. I wrote this film. I'm directing it and I will be playing the part of one of the moms.
As an actor, I played Eileen Jaffee on "Episode's" (Showtime), "Get Shorty" (Epix), "Maron" (FX), "I'm Dying Up Here" (Showtime), "Wet Hot American Summer" (Netflix), "Flight of the Conchords" (HBO), "Stella" (Comedy Central), and I'm currently shooting the new Greg Daniels project for Amazon. I also starred in a short film called "Squirrell" that went to Sundance this past year.
I co-created, co-produced and starred in 2 seasons of my own tv show, a comedy documentary called "Take Me To Your Mother" (Nickmom).
I recently finished a short that I wrote and starred in called "And I Need A Haircut", which will premiere at the Portland Comedy Film Festival. Plus, I have co-created many shorts with 3 other women called Variety Shac.
I'm also a stand up and run a monthly show in LA with my friend Lisa Delarios. It's called ALL THAT JAZZ.
CINEMATOGRAPHER - Graham Willoughby
Graham Willoughby will shoot THE RAIN PONCHO. I met him right after college and we've been friends ever since. He has shot many amazing documentaries, including, "20 Feet From Stardom" (Acadamy Award for best doc), "Won't You Be My Neighbor" (Acadamy Award short list), "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" (coming out soon), "Wyatt Cenac's Problem Area's" (HBO doc series), "Keith Richards: Under the Influence" (Netflix).
PRODUCER - Michael Eder
Michael is one of the producers. He produced "Fat Guy Stuck in Internet", an Adult Swim series. He produced many commercials with Charged Inc. Plus, he was the Executive Producer of Freak Show films in San Francisco, specializing in stop motion animation. He is also my best friend and the father to the two girls who will play the teen daughters in this film.
PRODUCER - Sam Griffel
Sam Griffel is a writer and producer based out of New York who is currently at MTV. Before that he has worked on shows at Comedy Central, FX, and ABC. Sam is passionate about social justice and in his spare time he practices law.
EDITOR - Edmond Hawkins
Edmond Hawkins is a New York based Filmmaker who’s currently directing his 2nd season of Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas for HBO. His style often incorporates animation/vfx which he refined while working for several Adult Swim/MTV shows (SuperJail!, Wondershowzen,The Shivering Truth). He has edited over 1,000 episodes at SNL and Fallon combined.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER - Mitchell Crisp
Mitchell Crisp is the production designer. I met her waiting tables at EJ's Luncheonette in NYC 20 years ago. Mitchell Crisp is an Art Director and Production Designer in the Film and Television industry since 1999. She has Production Designed 9 feature films, 12 short films, 2 television pilots, and 3 music videos, as well as Art Directing over 300 national and international commercials and designing the sets for several talk shows and exhibits for the Little Rock Zoo.
STORY BOARD ARTIST
My mom, Karen Laurence, is drawing our story boards! She has worked as an art director at William Esty and Benton and Bowles. She has drawn story boards for 30 plus years for D'arcy, DMB&B, Young &Rubicam, Grey Advertisisng, McGuffin Films, Saatchi&Saatchi, NW Ayer, History Channel, etc.
Here are some boards she drew for THE RAIN PONCHO:
ACTOR - Liz Sherman
Liz will play the other mom. We also met waitressing at EJ's Luncheonette in NYC 20 years ago. Later, we were roommates in Brooklyn. Liz got her Masters in Acting from ACT in San Francisco. She was a founding member of "The Rude Mechanicals", a theater company in NYC. She acted in many Rude Mechanical plays and in tons of commercials. Currently she is the head of the Theater Department at the Peddie School, a boarding school in Princeton, NJ.
ACTOR - Eliza Eder
Eliza will play the oldest daughter. She is 15 years old. She's danced in the last 4 productions of the Nutcracker ballet at Lincoln Center where she played an Angel, a Toy Soldier, Pollichinelle, and a Candy Cane. She also danced in Midsummer's Night Dream, Circus Polka, Scened Ballet, at Lincoln Center. Currently she studies hip hop at Broadway Dance Center.
ACTOR - Anya Eder
Anya will play the youngest daughter. She is 12. This will be Anya's 3rd year as part of the ensemble at TADA Youth Theater in NYC.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
THE RAIN PONCHO will be a 15 minute short film. It tells the story of a day in the life of a family with 2 moms raising 2 teen girls in NYC.
The moms fear the worst about their oldest daughter, thinking she has a secret lover, a pimp, etc...Their stress and anxiety level increases throughout their already challenging work day. To find out what's really going on with their oldest daughter, they embark on some sub par Nancy Drew sleuthing. When they discover her secret, they’re shocked, and also relieved. And then when they go home that night, they learn that it’s actually their youngest daughter who’s been up to something worth hiding.
The RAIN PONCHO is about hormones and anxiety, secrecy and communication.
As Jennifer Aniston once said in some article I read, “life can be messy".
And this day, for this loving family, is no exception.
IN MY REAL LIFE...
I am the mom to 2 young boys. For me, the most amazing thing about being a parent is that every day I learn more about who my kids are. And I'm often surprised. I wouldn't have predicted that one of my kids would love to sew, and that the other one would love to act out scenes from "Home Alone".
And watching my kids evolve, reminds me that I'm still changing and growing. And that it's our family who gets to bear witness to our everchanging forms. Blah blah blah. You get it.
HOW MY OWN FAMILY STUFF RELATES TO THIS FILM...
For me, family means a loving space where people can evolve. I aim to create this space for my own family, and so does the family in THE RAIN PONCHO. They love eachother, but also step on eachother's tails, and then have to put the work in to repair.
The RAIN PONCHO moms are majorly not perfect: one of them smokes pot in between her therapy clients, and the other one is a hair cutter, who barely cuts any hair off. And even though they stumble through parenting...there's a lot of love and a willingness to try, that makes this story relatable and fun and super funny.
PLUS, MY MOM IS DRAWING STORYBOARDS FOR THIS FILM!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
LOCATIONS
Costs $2,500
We need to pay for the use of a hair salon, a dance studio, a therapy office, and an apartment.
FOOD FOR CREW
Costs $2,000
This money will go to feeding the cast and crew. It's super important to feed the cast and crew!
PRODUCTION DESIGN&WARDROBE
Costs $1,500
We need to buy props and wardrobe. Two rugs, haircutting scissors, smock, a rain poncho! Etc...
TRAVEL
Costs $1,500
Travel from LA to NYC 2 times to shoot this short, plus, fly my Prod Designer to NYC.
SOUND MIXING
Costs $1,500
Sound mixing costs money. No one does it for free.
SOUND KIT
Costs $1,500
We have to rent a sound kit.
COLOR CORRECTION
Costs $1,500
The movie has to look GOOOOOD, with consistent color.
FESTIVAL FEES
Costs $2,000
Costs $ to apply to festivals and to travel there and find a bed!
ADMINISTRATION/POSTAL SERVICES
Costs $1,000
This is for hidden costs like mailing hard drives and photos, promotion, posters, etc...
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
WRITER and DIRECTOR and ACTOR - Andrea Rosen
Hi. I wrote this film. I'm directing it and I will be playing the part of one of the moms.
As an actor, I played Eileen Jaffee on "Episode's" (Showtime), "Get Shorty" (Epix), "Maron" (FX), "I'm Dying Up Here" (Showtime), "Wet Hot American Summer" (Netflix), "Flight of the Conchords" (HBO), "Stella" (Comedy Central), and I'm currently shooting the new Greg Daniels project for Amazon. I also starred in a short film called "Squirrell" that went to Sundance this past year.
I co-created, co-produced and starred in 2 seasons of my own tv show, a comedy documentary called "Take Me To Your Mother" (Nickmom).
I recently finished a short that I wrote and starred in called "And I Need A Haircut", which will premiere at the Portland Comedy Film Festival. Plus, I have co-created many shorts with 3 other women called Variety Shac.
I'm also a stand up and run a monthly show in LA with my friend Lisa Delarios. It's called ALL THAT JAZZ.
CINEMATOGRAPHER - Graham Willoughby
Graham Willoughby will shoot THE RAIN PONCHO. I met him right after college and we've been friends ever since. He has shot many amazing documentaries, including, "20 Feet From Stardom" (Acadamy Award for best doc), "Won't You Be My Neighbor" (Acadamy Award short list), "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" (coming out soon), "Wyatt Cenac's Problem Area's" (HBO doc series), "Keith Richards: Under the Influence" (Netflix).
PRODUCER - Michael Eder
Michael is one of the producers. He produced "Fat Guy Stuck in Internet", an Adult Swim series. He produced many commercials with Charged Inc. Plus, he was the Executive Producer of Freak Show films in San Francisco, specializing in stop motion animation. He is also my best friend and the father to the two girls who will play the teen daughters in this film.
PRODUCER - Sam Griffel
Sam Griffel is a writer and producer based out of New York who is currently at MTV. Before that he has worked on shows at Comedy Central, FX, and ABC. Sam is passionate about social justice and in his spare time he practices law.
EDITOR - Edmond Hawkins
Edmond Hawkins is a New York based Filmmaker who’s currently directing his 2nd season of Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas for HBO. His style often incorporates animation/vfx which he refined while working for several Adult Swim/MTV shows (SuperJail!, Wondershowzen,The Shivering Truth). He has edited over 1,000 episodes at SNL and Fallon combined.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER - Mitchell Crisp
Mitchell Crisp is the production designer. I met her waiting tables at EJ's Luncheonette in NYC 20 years ago. Mitchell Crisp is an Art Director and Production Designer in the Film and Television industry since 1999. She has Production Designed 9 feature films, 12 short films, 2 television pilots, and 3 music videos, as well as Art Directing over 300 national and international commercials and designing the sets for several talk shows and exhibits for the Little Rock Zoo.
STORY BOARD ARTIST
My mom, Karen Laurence, is drawing our story boards! She has worked as an art director at William Esty and Benton and Bowles. She has drawn story boards for 30 plus years for D'arcy, DMB&B, Young &Rubicam, Grey Advertisisng, McGuffin Films, Saatchi&Saatchi, NW Ayer, History Channel, etc.
Here are some boards she drew for THE RAIN PONCHO:
ACTOR - Liz Sherman
Liz will play the other mom. We also met waitressing at EJ's Luncheonette in NYC 20 years ago. Later, we were roommates in Brooklyn. Liz got her Masters in Acting from ACT in San Francisco. She was a founding member of "The Rude Mechanicals", a theater company in NYC. She acted in many Rude Mechanical plays and in tons of commercials. Currently she is the head of the Theater Department at the Peddie School, a boarding school in Princeton, NJ.
ACTOR - Eliza Eder
Eliza will play the oldest daughter. She is 15 years old. She's danced in the last 4 productions of the Nutcracker ballet at Lincoln Center where she played an Angel, a Toy Soldier, Pollichinelle, and a Candy Cane. She also danced in Midsummer's Night Dream, Circus Polka, Scened Ballet, at Lincoln Center. Currently she studies hip hop at Broadway Dance Center.
ACTOR - Anya Eder
Anya will play the youngest daughter. She is 12. This will be Anya's 3rd year as part of the ensemble at TADA Youth Theater in NYC.