PRODUCED FILMS
Here are some of our UPCOMING TV AND FILM projects.
PIPE DREAM
LIVE ACTION AND ANIMATION TV DRAMEDY
Logline
A struggling painter finds new inspiration when she is visited by animated versions of the male figures from her past, forcing her to empower herself and become the painter she always imagined to be.
Story
Estella ‘was’ a successful painter, but after many years of failed paintings she gets dumped by her Art Agent who then banishes her from the art world. Then one day out of Estella’s blank canvas a Chimera superhero version of herself in animation. She then learns that by using her imagination as animations, she can paint better than before getting her Drag-Queen best friend to present the paintings to her old art agent. But these empowered superheroes represent trauma of the past relationships in her life, and through them Estella must learn some big lessons and become more like her empowered animation, leaving her old self behind
Writer:
Olivia Simone
SHOOTING STAR
A BIG HEARTED TV COMEDY
Logline
Aj is the most talented 8 year old the world will ever see but him and his mom Silvie decide to move from Country Australia to LA, they realize it may not be as easy as they think for Aj to be a star. When Aj befriends the old man upstairs, their unlikely friendship helps Aj discover a secret talent in stand up comedy that takes him in a new direction to stardom.
STORY
8-year-old AJ has it all: he’s uber-talented, cute as a button, ever-charming and naturally very funny.
Only thing is he lives with his penniless mother Silvie, in a small country town in Australia with no visibility. Silvie is an ex-actress who had done the LA stint 20 years before and failed miserably. Yet because of this she is vicariously living through her son and supports him at all costs, writing the wrongs of her own failures.
So, when Aj wins money at yet another talent contest, they decide it’s time to throw everything into him becoming a star. They quickly sell their limited belongings and purchase two one-way tickets to LAX. Armed with his winnings and stars in their eyes they embarking on a risky adventure to find AJ stardom and hopefully give them a more secure future. Silvie is also secretly wanting to relive her dream of getting another chance at being a great actress.
CAST:
Jj Pantano
WRITER:
Olivia Simone
Unattached
UNEXPECTED TV COMEDY
Logline
Two friends decide to have sex and try their best to stay unattached. They soon realize that through their intimacy they are both confronting the very darkest parts of themselves.
Story
We follow Charlotte and Kamron on a risky adventure through sleeping with each other, giving advice on their dating life post coital, hiding their sexual escapades from their friends and trying their best not to hold each other after sex.
Soon the characters get confronted by their feelings and use many subconscious tactics to avoid intimacy. Marking these moments is a comedic freeze frame and voice over that tells the audience the phycology of why they are having these reactions and how their past traumas and upbringing have shaped their current lives.
WRITERS:
Iman Nazemzadeh and Olivia Simone
A SONG FOR GRACIE
Gracie and Amir stop at a rundown gas station in the desert, where Gracie runs into a man identical to Amir. The lines between past and present start to blur as Gracie ponders an uncertain future.
CAST:
Olivia Simone Iman Nazemzadeh
WRITER:
Olivia Simone and Iman Nazemzadeh
DIRECTED BY:
David Liu
PRODUCES:
Olivia Simone
Iman Nazemzadeh
David Liu
Bavand Karim
Don Ohmer
FESTIVALS
Woodstock Film Festival (Oscar Qualifying)
Asian pacific Film Festival (Oscar Qualifying)
ICFF
LITTLE HANDS
Pregnant Sofia confronts her Italian grandmother about the trauma that her mother passed on to her in the womb, hoping this will heal the ancestral cycle and it wont pass onto her little girl.
CAST:
Olivia Simone
Maria Ginardi
Eleonora Ginardi
WRITTEN BY:
Olivia Simone
DIRECTED BY:
Tess Emmerson
PRODUCERS:
Olivia Simone
Mark Overett
Tess Emmerson
FESTIVALS:
Matera Film Festival
Melbourne Woman in Film
St.Kilda Film Festival (Oscar Qualifying)
Poppy Jasper Film Festival
FILMS COMING SOON
Girasole
After her mother dies, Rosa decides to leave her life in Australia and travel to Southern Italy to find her father on a whim. She ends up discovering a whole family that she never knew.
WRITER:
Olivia Simone
DIRECTOR:
Liselle Miei
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCERS:
Trish Lake
Mark Overett
Olivia Simone
Italian Producer
Melograno films
Yellow Smiley Face
A Persian groom carries his intoxicated new bride through a luxury hotel to protect an old superstition — until a fight over emoji skin tones threatens to unravel their marriage before it begins.
CAST:
Olivia Simone
Iman Nazemzadeh
WRITTEN BY:
Olivia Simone
PRODUCERS:
Olivia Simone
Bavand Karim
HAPPY BDAY TO MY DAD, FRANK
Frank speaks to himself in the third person, on his 80’th bday he realizes he is really alone and not even FRANK can help him.
WRITTEN BY:
Olivia Simone
Azzurro
AWARD WINNING SHORT FILM BASED ON THE UPCOMING FEATURE ‘RUNNING ON PERFECT TIME.’
Gloria is being driven around Southern Italy when the car breaks down. Her driver Claudio pleads with her to wait at the beach, while he gets the car repaired. Now truly alone, Gloria's grief is transformed by the blue Ionian Sea.
CAST:
Olivia Simone
Giacomo Gianiotto
WRITTEN BY
Olivia Simone
PRODUCERS:
Olivia Simone
Mark Overett
AWARDS:
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, ‘SANTA MONICA FILM FESTIVAL’