Parasocial
Feature Film ~ Thriller ~ 110 pages
Beloved movie star MEL WILKES must desperately escape a nightmarish shrine created by her biggest fan – SAM, the starving artist determined to save Mel's soul from a materialistic world.
⭐️ Top 10% of entries for The Academy Nicholl Fellowship (2023)
MEL
You heard of deepfakes? We’re so fucked. It’s getting very hard to know how my audience perceives me.
SAM
You are my muse and sacrificial lamb for this, our broken culture, because,“The artifice can only hold us back! Set loose your leather wings!”
(off Mel)
That was your movie about Bat People called BAT PEOPLE.