Two documentary filmmakers risk their lives to tell the story of the American underclass in the year 2030.
Type:
Short
Status:
In development
Page Count:
20pp
Genre:
Drama
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
Everyone
Synopsis/Details
Two young documentary filmmakers go in search of a typical family in the "new underclass" of 2030. With 30% of the jobs that existed in 2018 now automated by robots or AI, they interview a formerly middle class family fallen on hard times, about the impact of a program that harvests the bodies of the indigent and converts them into "The Red Stuff," a food additive or food substitute. They also interview an intellectual and writer, in a conversation which reveals the state of the nation and the new restrictions on civil liberties.

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The Writer: Brad Vance

I'm the author of over a dozen novels as Brad Vance and Orland Outland (my legal name, which sounds like what someone once called my "preposterous pseudonym"). My screenplay adaptation of my novel, A Little Too Broken, has quarterfinaled in the 2017 Shore Scripts Feature and 2017 Screencraft Drama comps, and is currently a semifinalist in the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices contest. I've finished production on the first episode of my web series, Crunch , a dark comedy about the housing crisis that's come along with Reno's tech boom. And the next episode is in preproduction! I'm in preproduction on The Red Stuff , a dystopian look at 2030 through the eyes of two young documentary filmmakers. I… Go to bio
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