Andrea DeGette
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Teacher, Filmmaker |
| Location | Hillsborough, NC, United States |
| Introduction | DRY MOON is the story of Gracie Lee, a simple wild crafter who lives in harmony with nature near the old farmhouse where her mother scrapes a living selling at the local farmers market. Gracie encounters a vagrant, she becomes pregnant and then she is forced to change in order to get her baby back from social services. Her simple way of life is lost as she becomes part of the present day culture and loses touch with her roots in nature, though the bonds of three generations of women remain. Dry Moon will change the conception of what it might mean to live in harmony with nature in the modern world, perhaps what has been lost forever. |
| Interests | Film Ethics, Avant Guard Film, Media Literacy, Filmmaking, Videography, Education Reform, New Technologies, Old Technologies, Narrative Theory |
| Favorite movies | Andrea DeGette, writer, director, producer. An award-winning filmmaker; graduated from NYU and Duke, owner/operator Media Arts Exchange in Hillsborough, NC.David Kasper, videographer, editor. Oscar-winning producer/editor for PANAMA DECPEPTION, owner, operator of Empowerment Project in Chapel Hill, NC. I will use funds to finish editing and market the film to festivals and contests. If I get funding at this critical point, DRY MOON would be able to have a wide audience. We are in the late post-production phase scheduled to finish and ready for market this year. There has been no funding for DRY MOON except private donations. Fiscal sponsorship is through WOMEN MAKE MOVIES. We are working on a crowd-funding project and plan to finish using the funds we are able to gain there. We have been working on this feature film for over a decade with the shooting, editing, and post-production fit into the busy lifestyle of a single mother with three kids and lots of activities. The backdrop for the DRY MOON is historic Hillsborough and there has been integrity of shooting with the idea to be real instead of realistic. The actors are mainly real people with other occupations, and all the work was donated as a labor of love. There is a slow, but steady momentum that drives this film and there will be many interested fans who lent props, wardrobe, locations, talent, food, and a multitude of talents to make this project go! |
| Favorite music | DRY MOON began with an idea to show how time seemed to stop in rural Orange County. I had never been to the South, and was amazed to see that nothing seemed to have changed It was as if the world that encroached on this area was changed instead of the other way around—as long as the cultural norm of BEING A GOOD PERSON it didn’t seem to matter how eccentric or unique a person was, there was an acceptance--the culture of wealth and privilege seems to have taken over most places, except for here where who you are seems to remain much more important then what you are or what you have. |
| Favorite books | I will use funds to finish editing and market the film to festivals and contests. If I get funding at this critical point, DRY MOON would be able to have a wide audience. We are in the late post-production phase scheduled to finish and ready for market this year. There has been no funding for DRY MOON except private donations. Fiscal sponsorship is through WOMEN MAKE MOVIES. We are working on a crowd-funding project and plan to finish using the funds we are able to gain there. We have been working on this feature film for over a decade with the shooting, editing, and post-production fit into the busy lifestyle of a single mother with three kids and lots of activities. The backdrop for the DRY MOON is historic Hillsborough and there has been integrity of shooting with the idea to be real instead of realistic. The actors are mainly real people with other occupations, and all the work was donated as a labor of love. There is a slow, but steady momentum that drives this film and there will be many interested fans who lent props, wardrobe, locations, talent, food, and a multitude of talents to make this project go! |
You're going to the moon! What did you forget to pack?
Dry MOONSHINE!