Thank you for visiting the official website for pretty, a micro-budget feature film currently entering post-production.
A lost big-city girl seeks a small-town escape over a weekend in Tallahassee, Florida. When her visit with a summer love fails to live up to her romantic expectations, she diverts her search for affection onto a lonely local girl.
The film explores the mindsets of three young people on the verge of a quarter- life crisis. As Riley, Daniel, and Natalie each look for that "something real," their conflicting searches drive them to escape back into the safety of their own imaginations. To capture the characters states of in-between, the film incorporates a wide range of visual and narrative styles from documentary realism to dizzying fantasy.
Inspired by the idea of a young female drifter struggling to substitute a new friendship for a lost romance, co-directors Madeline Eberhard and Rebekah Suellau crafted a story entwining the identity crises of three twenty-somethings over a weekend. Rebekah then wrote a brief narrative outline (inspired by 1960s New Wave shooting treatments) to serve as the script.
Over seven months, the three primary actors worked closely with Madeline and Rebekah to develop characters and relationships. The directors worked largely as their own crew in order to maintain the up-close-and-personal feel of their vision in the on-set environment. Creative space for exploration and improvisation allowed the cast to truly invest themselves in the story. The result is a debut feature filled with striking detail and honest emotion.
 Jackie Viscusi Jackie Viscusi is a recent FSU graduate from the BFA Acting program. She has thoroughly enjoyed working on pretty, while getting to work with some of the most talented, wonderful people she has ever met. She now resides in New York City and signed up for Improv classes with the Upright Citizens Brigade to pursue her acting career. |
 Jamie Doyle The youngest of three from a Florida family, Jamie Doyle brings spunk and fearless emotion to the stage and screen. Currently a senior at Florida State University BFA Acting School, she was most recently in the stage play BUS STOP, and an MFA Thesis film, "Legacy". She is also in writer director Madeline Eberhard's "CARSEX" and "Hotel Coccole." pretty is her first feature film. |
 Michael Patrick A Tallahassee native, Michael Patrick is a musician and actor. Most recently he acted the lead as a hoarder in a one act titled "Don't Worry Baby," acted and sang in the short film "CARSEX," and was the lead in the short film "The Virgin Herod." Michael will graduate in August 2011 with a degree in creative writing and a minor in film studies. pretty is his first feature. |
 Rebekah Suellau Rebekah was recently recognized with a directing award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is pursuing her MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen at Florida State University. pretty is her first feature film. Rebekah draws inspiration from her small-town experiences, and from the classic cinema that always let her escape from them. She wants to make movies that bring these worlds together, presenting audiences with real, recognizable characters living their own film fantasies. She is a believer in the beauty of dreams and the power of people to make them real. |
 Madeline Eberhard In the past year, Madeline has received The Best of Florida State University Grant Award at the WGA for her thesis short titled "CARSEX" (2010), traveled to Poland to see her cinematography work in short film "Maya" (2010) compete in the Student Etudes competition, and has just finished her first feature, pretty (2011). Currently, Madeline lives in LA learning the ins and outs of production while she works on the script for her next film, Oh Leanne, ou Coeur d'Alene. Through photography, art, fashion and music, Madeline is a filmmaker inspired by place and pursues capturing the world the way it reveals itself to her. |
pretty is now in its final stage: post-production. Before the film can come to you,
it must go through the phases of editing, sound design, coloring, and festival submissions.
The filmmakers are using Kickstarter, an online fundraising platform for independent creative projects, to finance the post-production process. They have forty days from Friday, August 19, to meet a goal of $5,000. This money will insure that pretty moves smoothly to completion by December 2011.
To find out how you can help this exciting new project reach its audiences, click here.
