A new kind of queer film

AGAIN AGAIN is a queer sci fi love story written by Mia Moore Marchant and directed by Marchant and Alexa Feeney. We’re two queer transgender female filmmakers and we’re running this campaign so we can make a film like you’ve never seen before!

AGAIN AGAIN is the story of Agatha, a woman who spent 10 years in a time loop reliving the same day over and over and over again, before suddenly breaking free of it. Our story follows Agatha as she reacclimates to the real world and faces the terrifying prospect of an unknown future. Living alongside Agatha was Tess, her childhood best friend and the love of her life, who reset every day along with the rest of the world. But what will happen now that Agatha is free? Is this happily ever after or will she self-destruct in a mad dash for emancipation?

 

Meet The Creators

Mia Moore Marchant

Mia Moore is a filmmaker/comedian raised in Aberdeen Washington. Her writing deals with massive genre concepts on a small-scale human level, infused with all the charm and humor of a “comedians with depression” support group. Mia currently resides in Los Angeles. She’s 29 years old and hopes to someday be 30.

 

Alexa Feeney

Alexa Feeney is an experimental artist and filmmaker, with work spanning from documentary, animation, and even some traditional narrative thrown in for good flavor. No matter the format, her work always circles back to explore queerness and identity and how identity informs the ways we move through the world. A graduate from Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television, her drive as an artist is to tackle stories that showcase an earnest honesty in lives of folks who are traditionally left to the margins, in her words “janky gays with messy bedrooms.” 

 

The Budget

Filmmaking is, for better and worse, one of the most expensive forms of art at any scale, and this only rings more true when you’re dealing with a feature. With this in mind, we’d like to provide an overview for what we’re looking at here:

– Filming on location in Washington state for a month straight, complete with room and board for any out of state cast and crew.

– Top of the line cameras, rigs, and gear – we want this film to look and sound crisp, we want to showcase queer beauty.

– Post-production costs, like editing, coloring, and a unique score!

In short, we want to do right by our cast and crew, and put together a damn good movie for y’all to enjoy. 

Why we’re going indie

Because of the nature of Again Again, we’re choosing to crowdfund the film and produce it independently rather than look for studio backing. A film of this kind doesn’t have a precedent in Hollywood and we believe we can set that precedent.

This is a film built from the ground up by queer and trans people. Written by/directed by/starring us and for us. We want to adapt this beautiful script into an incredible film and to do that, we’ll need your help!

The campaign goal we’ve set allows us to hire an incredible crew that can make our film look, feel, and sound amazing; AND it lets us pay them what they’re worth without asking for tons of favors and free labor.

 

What our film means to us

“I’ve never seen myself truly represented on screen. I’ve never seen a trans woman who’s allowed to go on a journey that’s informed by her transness but not obsessed with her transness. I want to create the kind of film I needed when I was younger. The kind of film I needed when I was closeted and alone. The kind of film I needed when I didn’t even know what I was. I want to create a film that resonates with people whether they’re transgender themselves or they’ve never met a trans woman in their lives.

I believe trans people should be allowed to fall in love on screen. We should be allowed to be time travelers and action heroes and horror final girls and rock stars. This is only one of those stories and I hope it can light a flame that sparks a thousand more.” – Mia

“I saw Star Wars when I was like, three years old, and that cemented for me that I want to spend my life making movies. While Again Again is a little bit different kind of movie – not any jawas, sadly – I think it’s going to hit audiences in a similar way, just being able to take in a story they’ve never seen before and rethink what’s possible for them. This especially goes out to my queer family; I wanna make stuff for us, on our terms. I wanna film us, like put us in front of a camera, and show the world how beautiful we are, how incredible our lives are, and what we’re capable of. And I wanna do that with a film about a wayward trans girl who’s trying, like, really trying, to get her shit together after being dealt a terrible hand. 

I wanna show a trans girl in love, in the way we love, in spite of everything going wrong in her world.” – Alexa 

 

Read the first 10 pages of the script now! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OrRj8X5…