Director/producer for a short indie comedy - a job post by Gabriel Karkovsky

About the job

We are looking for a director and producer of a short indie comedy Boston Fly & Twenty Years Old Machete written by R. Gabriel Karkovsky and Sophie Bouvier. If you want to read the script, contact us on rgkarkovsky@gmail.com.

Tagline
A Boston-based novelist Robert Bronstein can't fall asleep, so he tries every method he finds.

Synopsis
Upset by his recent divorce and stressed by the approaching deadline, novelist Robert Bronstein cannot fall asleep. Locked in his charming Boston apartment in the company of his cat and his goldfish, the author has no trust in the drugs prescribed by his physician and for lack of better options he turns to YouTube. Bronstein's insomnia seems to be of a rare type for none of the influencers’ sophisticated methods work, no matter how hard he tries ... not even the scientifically proven method from the old Incas which consists in cutting a fly with a twenty years old machete.

Technical sheet
Written by: R. Gabriel Karkovsky and Sophie Bouvier (based on a short story written by R. Gabriel Karkovsky)
Genre: Comedy/Indie
Duration: 13-15 minutes
Locations: Boston apartment
Characters: Robert Bronstein (30), neighbor (50), British Female YouTuber (25)

Sophie Bouvier is a writer, researcher, creative writing teacher, and former ghostwriter. Sophie has worked for two different publishers as a literary advisor and ghost writer, and is currently involved in exciting interdisciplinary projects. She also teaches French theater at the university level. She co-wrote two short films, Le Dernier bastion and Full Support.