A Film by Jeremy Webb
Screenplay by Jessica Marsh
BONE DEEP
Zachery Barrett wants to grab life by the balls; he’s ready to be an adult, but his mother and his teachers treat him like a kid. With the help of his friend Terence, he’s going to get control of his life and cross firmly over the threshold into being a man.
From the team that brought you WAKE; Bone Deep is the next in the series of short films from Jessica Marsh’s original play Maelstrom (there are 6 in all.)
Bone Deep will shoot in Spring 2011 and will be directed and produced by Jeremy Webb.
Director of Photography: Becky Parsons.
NEWS UPDATE:
Jan 21, 11 – We have opened a PAYPAL account to receive donations to help get Bone Deep made.
TOTAL: $35,630 in donations received out of our $44,000 budget: this includes our amazing CBC prize package for winning last year’s Short Film FaceOff. Thank you so very much!
Despite winning CBC’s Short Film Face Off with amazing prizes from the CBC and equipment suppliers, we still need to raise $9000 to make this film. Cold hard cash. We hope that you can help in any small or amazing way by donating.
We hope to shoot this Spring. We have two months to raise the money. As part of our prize package for winning The Short Film FaceOff with WAKE, we were given a broadcast license; meaning that Bone Deep will air on television. It will also be entered into the Short Film Face Off and be sent for consideration to film festivals.
Please help. All donations gratefully received and you will find yourself in the credits of the film and supporting the arts!
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Synopsis
Zachery Barrett is having another soul-sucking day at high school. He promised his emotionally fragile and unstable mother he wouldn’t quit, but he is desperate to get in touch with his girlfriend Allison who has been ignoring his texts since their massive argument last night. He texts from class and gets caught. Buzzing with combustible energy outside the vice-principal’s office, he meets Terence, a free-spirited teenager carrying an African drum. Commiserating about their life of high school captivity, Terence offers Zac an alternative perspective: In your mind, he entices, you’re as free as a bird.Squawking like a bird, Terence dances in the high school hallway. Startled but fascinated, Zac joins in for what becomes a passionate tribal dance. Bursting out of his office, vice-principal Wendall demands the boys keep the noise down. Pushed to the limit of what he can handle, Zac turns on Mister Wendall like an animal stalking prey; the Vice Principal retreats into his office. Fascinated and impressed with Zac’s powerful display of masculine energy, Terence follows Zac and they take off to find Allison.
Walking along the railroad tracks, as they head for Allison’s house, with Terence reciting poetry and drumming as they go, Zac recalls a story he heard about a tribe in Africa that has a coming of age ceremony for their boys. Impassioned, filled with longing, Zac tells Terence about other tribal rituals; boys required to hunt stags, hang from hooks in their chests, leap from heights tied by their ankles. And at the end, Zac says, if they haven’t quit or embarrassed themselves or died, they’re men. Men. Everyone around them knows they did what they had to do. They get a woman, they get land, they get their own lives. And they’re men. As Zac and Terence reach Allison’s house, she comes storming out and screams at Zac to get lost. He demands to know if she’s gone for the abortion they were arguing about the night before. When she tells him she has, emotions explode; he insists he could have taken care of her and the baby. Berating him for thinking he is man enough to be a father, Allison dismisses him as just an irresponsible boy. She retreats to her house.
Enraged, Zac heads home. On a bridge overlooking the railroad tracks, he and Terence stop and watch the setting sun. Zac wonders when he’ll get some control in his life. When will he get some power? When will he become a man?
