double exposure

from the writers.

“Daryl and Austin came together in an almost cosmically serendipitous way. Long after having performed together in a pre-Broadway tryout of a new musical, they found themselves accidentally at coffee with mutual friends. Daryl had been musing contacting Austin, who had had some luck selling tv treatments, about some source material she had been mining. Daryl presented Austin a manilla envelope with hundreds of pages of thoughts and ideas about dating garnered through some hard wrought real life experiences. Austin's mind was blown. They took a scalpel to it, changed the names of the innocent, and over time it evolved into this short film DOUBLE EXPOSURE.

DOUBLE EXPOSURE tells a tale as old as time in a constantly changing digital dating landscape. While it's told from a woman's perspective, it is ultimately a HUMAN story dealing with feelings of loneliness, the ebb and flow of friendships and relationships, the magnitude of self-realization, and the risk of being an artist. It's a piece that takes us into another world through music, movement, art and imagery - grounded in Dani's reality yet soaring in her creative headspace - two opposing worlds that collide within her complex state of being.

Currently movies aren't dealing with finding love in the hopeful way of an old-school romantic comedy. DOUBLE EXPOSURE tells the truth of how people still ultimately want and yearn for love, but in a modern, messy way that doesn't necessarily get tied up in a neat bow. This short version of DOUBLE EXPOSURE, while it stands alone as a beautiful piece, is a precursor to a full-length modern romantic comedy. It explores the same ideas while breaking the old school romantic comedy norms, and folds in more fully realized relationships, tensions, heartbreaks, and ultimately a search for love in all senses of the word.

Daryl Getman and Austin Miller