My independent film company
Either/Or Films recently produced a low-budget feature here in New Hampshire called
Only Daughter. A more accurate description might be "micro-budget," seeing the film was made for $20,000, almost all of it raised on IndieGoGo. The film is currently making the rounds of several film festivals and last weekend won the Best Screenplay and Best Actor awards at the
Orlando Film Festival and Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress awards on "New Hampshire Night" at the
New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth.
What's interesting about the project from the writer's POV is that, although the actual screenplay was written (and the film directed) by my producing partner, Aaron Wiederspahn, it was developed by him and the principle actors over a period of several weeks. This group got together on a regular basis and worked with the story idea and improvised possible scenes, trying various approaches to the developing material. Then after this extensive group exploration, Aaron went off and wrote the actual script that was shot.
