Let the Filming BEGIN!
March 20, 2023
EEEEEEK!!! I’m so excited (and terrified) to announce …. (drum roll please) I’m heading to New Orleans this week to begin filming and the Kickstarter for my documentary is NOW LIVE!!
EEEEEEK!!! I’m so excited (and terrified) to announce …. (drum roll please) I’m heading to New Orleans this week to begin filming and the Kickstarter for my documentary is NOW LIVE!!
Maybe their mystique grew because of their vintage glamour combined with their eccentric recluse years where they never left their house and painted it top to bottom with polka dots, while sewing thousands of costumes for each other. Or maybe it was because after they died with no family, their neighbor held a 5-year yard sale with their steamer trunks, handmade shoes, hand-beaded costumes, and crowns heading out into the world and now owned and treasured by thousands of different people, literally interwoven into the fabric of New Orleans and the people who love the city.
I describe the documentary as Gray Gardens Meets Gypsy Rose Lee Meets Sisterhood of the Traveling Underpants.
And maybe that’s the true beauty ideal: capturing real and honest moments in all their gorgeous tattered raw authenticity… like catching fireflies in a jar, or catching powdered sugar on your tongue as you bite into a hot beignet while a guy with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth plays a dilapidated piano on the street corner, spinning pure magic out of a wooden box made of strings and keys, and even in my overly-snug dress, I step into the sun and dance.