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Raise Hell
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sometimes violence is the answer.
LOGLINE
After two scrappy siblings, a sharp 9-year-old and her wary 13-year-old brother, stumble onto a predator’s porn-plastered trailer in the 1994 North Carolina woods, they’re trapped in a one-night cat and mouse chase with a violent zealot. With only a BB gun, a hunting knife, and their wits, the kids must outthink, outlast, and decide how far they’ll go, as Diana, the meek little sister, becomes the hunter in a lean Southern-gothic survival thriller.
Raise Hell is the story of Diana and her brother Luke, who, after going into the forest to find a famed trailer covered in violent pornography, become trapped in the darkening woods with madman Willy. After Luke gets taken by Willy, it is up to Diana at--at 9 years old--to rescue her brother. She must outsmart the clutches of a man whose intention is not only to reveal suppressed violence within Luke, but to smother that violence with his bare hands.
Raise Hell is a thriller propelled by visual storytelling, featuring an examination into different responses to consumed violence--from horrific, to off-putting, to joyous revenge. The audience, mirroring the characters, moves from a place of witnessing violence as a catastrophic event to cheering for it in the end. We learnwith the kids onscreen that there is a time and place for self-defense. A darkly fun, deeply resonating southern gothic thriller, destined to be an indie darling. Watch the meek inherit the earth in real time.
STORYBOARD CONCEPT TRAILER
SYNOPSIS
Status: In development, packaging phase. Seeking additional financers.
Final Budget: $2M
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Meet the team
WRITER/DIRECTOR
Gabriel is an award winning lesbian writer and director who has been making films for over fifteen years. She was inspired to write Raise Hell by a real childhood event, when her brother brought her to a trailer in the woods of North Carolina that had been covered by violent adult pornography. She always wondered who the trailer belonged to while its disturbing impact remained lastingly in the back of her mind. This along with one other occurrence of being lost in the dark woods, eventually being found scared and alone by hunters, are the true events that inspired this story. Gabriel believes it is important to tell stories in which children become their own saviors, because many adults were never rescued as children. Stories like Raise Hell heal inner wounds that, without art, can remain unreachable.
LINE PRODUCER
Laura A. Garcia is a producer based in Los Angeles, California. Garcia has an aptitude for finances, as she worked for the State of Maine Government Planning Office in Accounting after studying accounting for seven years throughout high school and college.
After college, Garcia attended the Los Angeles Film School and discovered her passion for Post Production, majoring in Editing and Producing. Garcia has developed and cultivated an extensive list of industry contacts through her work with a variety of networks, including National Geographic, Speed, Fox, Animal Planet, Discovery, Travel Channel, Syfy, OWN, and TruTv. She’s currently a Co-Producer for Dick Wolf and NBC on Chicago Fire and Chicago PD and Amazon Prime’s On Call, working closely with all aspects of the production and post-production process.
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Katie Eleneke, ICFC, is a Los Angeles based cinematographer. Having spent the last 10 years predominantly in narrative, she's lately been taken with documentary after recent travels to Malaysia and Vietnam. Katie’s introduction to photography came as a gift from her mother in the form of a camera. Her love turned into a career when she worked as a photojournalist, a sports photographer, and as a print marketer over a span of 5 years. She graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in film and an emphasis in cinematography. Since 2017, Katie has worked out of the DMPC as an ambassador for Sony Cameras. She has worked all over LA and the US, having spoken at CineGear and NAB with the goal of fostering comfortability with Sony amongst DPs, Camera Assistants, Operators, and hybrid shooters.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Michael Carnick is a screenwriter and playwright from San Diego, California. After graduating from UCSD, Michael continued to write award-winning screenplays and stage plays, many of which have been turned into live performances. Michael went on to attend UCE for his MFA in Creative Writing for the Performing Arts. In 2015, Michael independently produced a feature film based on his Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award winning script Who's Driving Doug, a semi-autobiography. Focusing on his struggle with Muscular Dystrophy, this drama/dark comedy takes an unflinching look at the social implications of being disabled as Doug tries to find love and understand his place in the world. Michael was born with a rare physical disability which confines him to an electric wheelchair. His work is often centered around the themes of disability awareness and the human experience of being a minority.
Upcoming Projects
Untitled Documentary Miniseries about Global Ableism
STATUS: Post-Production. Shopping for Distribution
Footage sneak peek filmed by Gabriel Carncik.
Filmmaker Gabriel Carnick follows director Michael Carnick, a disabled man who uses a power chair, for his first across the world trip to Japan. Together, they examine ableism in all its contexts and take a journey of a lifetime, no matter the risk.
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