Great news! A new film entitled August in the City has started its Crowd Funding Campaign!
And to make it even more exciting, the plot offers not only a compelling story, but also a couple twists we can’t wait to see on the big screen.
The story focuses mainly on August (Daniela Mastropietro), a 45 year old woman, struggling with an alcohol addiction while simultaneously trying to make peace with the past she left behind.
August also has 2 daughters, Anna and Marie (Stacey Raymond and Amanda Tudor) who have just started college although they couldn’t be any more different in the way they approach life and its challenges.
When Anna comes back home for Thanksgiving, she brings Nick….who just so happens to be a girl.
Her daughter’s relationship makes her confront her own feelings she had to burry deep down, 20 years ago when she decided to pursuit her goal of starting a family with her husband, Salvatore (John Solo). Adding up to the already intriguing story, when Anna introduces Nick to August, we are taken back 20 years earlier, and see what truly happened to August in 1978.
Perhaps even more curious, the story is based on true events. Lisa Tedesco, the screenwriter, based the script on her own mother’s story, later adding her own fictional twist:
My mom had called me one night and said that she has written a little something about me. It was about my very first love that I had in college – her name was Nick – and she was expecting to see a young man when I brought her home.”
It’s safe to say, I haven’t been this excited for a movie in a long time! I am sure it will be a compelling, deeply emotional story where we can not only count on the expertise of Tedesco and fellow director Christie Conochalla, but also take a deeper look into what the world was like for young queer women chasing love in the late 70s.
The movie is currently in pre-production and if you would like to check out more about the movie or would like to help out by contributing, “August in the City” has its own IndieGoGo page, which you can find here.
