Dayroom Webseries
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https://vimeo.com/376592317
The link above is our first episode. Please watch and help us shoot two more episodes by donating to this gofundme.
Synopsis:
Dayroom is a web series that captures the “healing” moments between two roommates; A sex worker named Luna and a theater artist named Niki. Each episode is centered around the time of day in which these two women come together on their couch and exist without the hyper visibility that being a black woman comes with. We watch as Niki loses her survival job and struggles with what it means to be an artist in New York. We watch as Luna uses weed as a way to cop with her agoraphobia and sex work via being a cam girl as a way to pay rent. We witness how these two black women share the most honest parts of their day in a space that is curated just for them.
We are rising money to shoot the rest of this series.
Here is where your funds will be going:
Equipment rental (lights, Cameras, sound equipment etc.) ~ $1000
Craft services (Food and drink while on set. This will be spread out to for all the shooting dates) ~ $500
Costumes/props (clothes, set pieces, hair and makeup needs) ~ $1000
Transportation. ( We shoot in the Bronx and need to be able to transport our team members and equipment in a timely manner) ~ $500
Music ( We are only using music from black fem artist at various points in their careers) ~ $500
A bit more about the Series:
Luna is Played by Thalia Sablon:
Thalia Sablon is a graduate at Rutgers University where she is earning her MFA in Playwriting . Since graduation from SUNY Purchase she has worked as a freelance stage manager for various productions, a Junior producer for the Heal Me Too theater festival, first assistant director on The Retreat web series, and an actor for Susan Lori parks NYU class. Some of her selected acting credits include; Citizen (Citizen 2), Abducted (Tia), It's not a trip, its a journey (Rain), and Flinted (Babe). In July of 2018 she was a finalist in Hudson guilds summer festival for the best play category for her piece titled REP. She creates art that showcases black bodies being radically happy, unfazed, and unpredictable.
Niki is Played by Bree Person:
Bree is a Visual Artist who strives to create an interactive environment to showcase individual’s unique talents. She holds an Associate’s degree in Art from Laguardia community college and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Media Studies from SUNY Purchase She uses skills obtained from her disciplines to identify the ways in which we present our arts in social media and experiences through real life. Bree also is the set designer of the series.
Dayroom, although a physically curated space for our main characters Niki and Luna, is also a hypothetical curation of space for women who identity with the underlying themes in the show; Intersection of being black, identifying as a woman, and struggling young professionals in the art world. While simultaneously humanizing those who use sex work as a means to make money, and those who roll blunts to ease anxiety.
For anyone who is able to donate we give many many thanks! AND we have stickers!!!
for donations of :
$20- $50 : 3 Stickers based off episodes of your choosing
$60- $100- A shout out at the end of an episode, 5 stickers based off of each episode and, special thanks at the end of season screening.
The link above is our first episode. Please watch and help us shoot two more episodes by donating to this gofundme.
Synopsis:
Dayroom is a web series that captures the “healing” moments between two roommates; A sex worker named Luna and a theater artist named Niki. Each episode is centered around the time of day in which these two women come together on their couch and exist without the hyper visibility that being a black woman comes with. We watch as Niki loses her survival job and struggles with what it means to be an artist in New York. We watch as Luna uses weed as a way to cop with her agoraphobia and sex work via being a cam girl as a way to pay rent. We witness how these two black women share the most honest parts of their day in a space that is curated just for them.
We are rising money to shoot the rest of this series.
Here is where your funds will be going:
Equipment rental (lights, Cameras, sound equipment etc.) ~ $1000
Craft services (Food and drink while on set. This will be spread out to for all the shooting dates) ~ $500
Costumes/props (clothes, set pieces, hair and makeup needs) ~ $1000
Transportation. ( We shoot in the Bronx and need to be able to transport our team members and equipment in a timely manner) ~ $500
Music ( We are only using music from black fem artist at various points in their careers) ~ $500
A bit more about the Series:
Luna is Played by Thalia Sablon:
Thalia Sablon is a graduate at Rutgers University where she is earning her MFA in Playwriting . Since graduation from SUNY Purchase she has worked as a freelance stage manager for various productions, a Junior producer for the Heal Me Too theater festival, first assistant director on The Retreat web series, and an actor for Susan Lori parks NYU class. Some of her selected acting credits include; Citizen (Citizen 2), Abducted (Tia), It's not a trip, its a journey (Rain), and Flinted (Babe). In July of 2018 she was a finalist in Hudson guilds summer festival for the best play category for her piece titled REP. She creates art that showcases black bodies being radically happy, unfazed, and unpredictable.
Niki is Played by Bree Person:
Bree is a Visual Artist who strives to create an interactive environment to showcase individual’s unique talents. She holds an Associate’s degree in Art from Laguardia community college and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Media Studies from SUNY Purchase She uses skills obtained from her disciplines to identify the ways in which we present our arts in social media and experiences through real life. Bree also is the set designer of the series.
Dayroom, although a physically curated space for our main characters Niki and Luna, is also a hypothetical curation of space for women who identity with the underlying themes in the show; Intersection of being black, identifying as a woman, and struggling young professionals in the art world. While simultaneously humanizing those who use sex work as a means to make money, and those who roll blunts to ease anxiety.
For anyone who is able to donate we give many many thanks! AND we have stickers!!!
for donations of :
$20- $50 : 3 Stickers based off episodes of your choosing
$60- $100- A shout out at the end of an episode, 5 stickers based off of each episode and, special thanks at the end of season screening.
Organizer
Thalia Sablon
Organizer
Rego Park, NY
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