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BRIT IN LA: Characters, sketch & shortform

What's it all about

*Award winning comedy from Pippa Hinchley, her female friends and the odd bloke*Nominated for best web comedy show ITV Fest Awards in LA*Nominated for Best Actress In A Web Comedy, StayTuned/ITVFest LA** Live!Sex!Girls! (LSG) is an all-female sketch show originally created by Pippa in Los Angeles, as a live show for the LA Comedy Festival. With a co-cast of Funny Brit Chix, the show's sketches were surreal, saucy, satirical and sometimes just silly, often commenting on life as an 'immigrant' and transplant performer in LaLa. It then became a web series - filming a sketch whenever she had $5.50 to spare until 13 webisodes were shot to become a series.

Pippa is an award winning screenwriter and actor whose feature script UP YOURS, BRIDGET JONES was a finalist in the 2018 National Lampoon Search For Comedy Gold reboot competition and has placed in many other contests including The Page, Finishline & Screencraft. Her comedy credits include award winning sketch show Smack The Pony and No Limit, as well as Edinburgh show The Alans Have Landed and Destination Elevation, several one act plays and stand-up in LA. As an actor she has played leading roles in comedies written and directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Terry Johnson and performed in the West End as well as many regional theatres.
More info at www.pippahinchley.com and www.diyfilmproductions.com
In the USA, LSG was "an almost all female sketch show with a twist of Brit" - now I'd like to create further hilarity on home turf - probably "with a twist of Brexit" if we don't kill ourselves 1st. Scripts are abundant but for this I'll need collaborators, crew, some wickedly witty women to play with and the occasional, totally grautuitous, semi-naked male. And possibly a dog.

Many of the characters and sketches are runners - some taking more the shape of short form films & mini series, like the award winning "KILLING BOYFRIENDS - AN EPIC TRILOGY" which tells the tragic tale of Pan - a klutz who will KEEP accidentally killing her best mate's men. Could Pan return once more - or could her best friend finally get revenge? GALE FORCE - busty, all-action weather woman, Gale, whose career you can marvel at over 6 sketches as she makes a meteoric rise from 'large fronts' as a weather woman to 'rear ending' as traffic news reporter. Gale makes political reporter and, finally, war correspondent, armed only with an orgy of utterly inappropriate sexual innuendo. Can Gale top even this, make news anchor or front her own late-night chat show?

CHARACTERS new material for existing characters and brand new ones are ready to shoot, including FATIMA - Iraqui, illegal and loving LA - who you can see live here - https://youtu.be/GF8C1AGerZ8

Narrative web series/ sitcom-y!

"DEATH - A LOVE STORY" is a 3 part mini-mini-series about Charon - or Sharon as she now prefers - the transferryperson who has been rowing the dead over the Underworld's River Styx since time began, and her desperate attempt to win back her very very very long term lover, Grim, (Reap to his mates) with the help of social media and a youtube/Insta star make-up artist.
"DEATH - A LOVE STORY" is at script and teaser stage and dying to be shot. So to speak.

#MENTAL - a dark comedy about Lucy - a Northerner who bounces around the spectrum of mental health from fully functioning nursery teacher to sectioned psychotic.
Lucy wants to be 'normal' -

SHOOTING NOW as short/ 3x5' web and a proof of concept as I have interest from various companies and need to develop as half hour series (maybe a feature length)
Im also performing bits of it live - THE VAULTS last month - as I write the fulkl length play and radio/audio versions.

#MENTAL needs some expert editing and sound design as it has various effects that show Lucy's alternative view/hearing/perception of reality. At the moment Pippa is struggling and becoming more #mental than previosuly believed, attempting to shoot, perform, edit and produce on her tod. Please help.

Genre

Sketchy

Published

1 Video
Fri 05 July 12:20am
THE OBAMA 2012 RE-ELECTION YMCA SONG!
This was the last sketch I made for LSG before life took a nasty turn for 5 years! I performed this live with my 'girls' at the LA Comedy Store on the night of the 2012 elections which was a blast. But - WTF?! To think that what we were worried about as Brits In LA back then were a couple of right wingers called Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. OMG little did we know. I'd like to update this to accomodate the current POTUS and Brexiters. Probably to Mendlessohn's Death March. Which will be cheery. Thoughts anyone?
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Funding Progress

Goal £1,000
There are no donations
Producer/writer/performer - erm - ALL me at this stage! Pippa

A single, simple 1' to 3' sketch or webisode that takes me a day to shoot costs between 300UKP to 1k - which includes minimum wage for all cast and crew, edtiong and post production, catering, locations and camera, sound and lighting equipment.

So to make DEATH - A LOVE STORY - which is 3 x 3' webisodes or further shooting of #MENTAL. for example - requires 3k to 5k.

These figures include calling in many favours, freebies and using contacts built up over years in the industry so they are the minimum needed. Add a large cast or any kinds of effects or music composed or recorded separately it obviously costs more than this.

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We are looking for :

Perfomers: funny females - and also the odd bloke - especially if they sing/play an instrument/hoof or have special or silly skill, like juggling baby animals...just as an example.

DP/camera who wants to see what they can do with the Samsung S9plus phone - which has a full HD /4k/ 60fps slo mo camera which is awesome and I only know a fraction of what it does. Can add lenses and need all sorts of odd shots/angles and adding after effects - it's literally a wild ride, this thing and it will get noticed.

Need all rounders that can AD one minute, do sound because its only a plug in mic /lav to S9plus mobile phone, then hold a boom whilst doing continuity . In an ideal world.
ANY help gratefully accepted - no matter if new to filming - I can offer a LOT of connections/experience/age and bitterness - business-we-call-show advice - mostly in form of what NOT to do but hey....
I'd love to find some editors that can really cut comedy. :) TIMING!

Killer sound designer/editor/music maker/FX - lots of weird distorted perception in this - need sound unaturally high or warped or one line behind the mouth movements....!
Perfomers: funny females - and also the odd bloke - especially if they sing/play an instrument/hoof or have special or silly skill, like juggling baby animals...just as an example.

DP/camera who wants to see what they can do with the Samsung S9plus phone - which has a full HD /4k/ 60fps slo mo camera which is awesome and I only know a fraction of what it does. Can add lenses and need all sorts of odd shots/angles and adding after effects - it's literally a wild ride, this thing and it will get noticed.

Need all rounders that can AD one minute, do sound because its only a plug in mic /lav to S9plus mobile phone, then hold a boom whilst doing continuity . In an ideal world.
ANY help gratefully accepted - no matter if new to filming - I can offer a LOT of connections/experience/age and bitterness - business-we-call-show advice - mostly in form of what NOT to do but hey....
I'd love to find some editors that can really cut comedy. :) TIMING!

Killer sound designer/editor/music maker/FX - lots of weird distorted perception in this - need sound unaturally high or warped or one line behind the mouth movements....!

Core Of Monkos

Hi Pippa, Belal Ladkani here. I'm an editor with 15+ years experience wondering if you're still looking to collaborate with an editor on future projects. I'm free from the 15th & can offer reasonable rates. B