The Birth of Lifeless

Since March 2017 I've focused exclusively and relentlessly on writing and production. Research, writing stories, refining stories, location scouting, finding cast & crew... wherever I could help, pitch in, share, learn from, I grabbed it. Two feature scripts I completed won and placed in a variety of screenwriting contests. But I hesitated starting my own project for a variety of reasons. Mostly because I know what an enormous pain in the a** it is, and how expensive. I talked to an experienced Sundance producer - who expressed an interest in working with me on my ghost story short about death and the transition to the afterlife, but after a preliminary stab at a budget, I knew it would be out of reach for a bit.

By September 2020, I had drained a lot of my stash funds and decided to get off the grid. I loaded everything I owned into storage, packed up my remaining worldly possessions, and decided to head to Port Townsend, Washington - where my parents have an empty apartment, the view is beautiful and the air is fresh and clear. And then I wrote.

After months in quarantine, and after having my own bout with COVID19, the only story that came to me was the sound of Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher. So I read it again. And then I took his gorgeous, lyrical, dark prose and twisted it and made it my own.

LIFELESS was born from the death of society and the world as we knew it to be. But we didn't know it was dead, and we didn't know that a small virus would literally starve the old world to death. While people fight to keep that old world alive, some of us know that it's long gone, dead for all intents and purposes. But the main character... does she know where she is in that fog of life?

You'll have to see it in the end to find out.