SNAP (Feature): In Development

A FULL LENGTH FEATURE by VANESSA LIBERTAD GARCIA

SNAP

An aspiring photojournalist with a lust for bi-women and malt liquor spirals out of control in the hipster club scene and turns bottom-of-the-barrel temp for an LA celebrity tabloid rag.

Brazen Cuban-American lesbian Dolores Amorosa Marti has set her sights on becoming a renowned, humanistic photojournalist for LA’s preeminent photographic magazine “The Fotogenic Orb”. Twenty-two and flat-broke however, she’s nearly homeless and nowhere close — slumming it at her mother’s vacant house, which is up for sale in an outlying suburbia. Convinced that everyone must “pay their dues” to succeed, Dolores begins commuting through hellish traffic to temporary receptionist/runner gigs at various magazines, namely dreadful celebrity tabloids. Dolores licks her wounds at night in the clubs of Chinatown’s hipster nightlife where fantasy, alcohol, and apathy reign supreme. There she finds sanctuary in crestfallen friends, belligerent blunders, and anonymous sex. In the midst of this bleak desperation, Dolores finally lands a receptionist position at the tabloid magazine “Tipped Off”. Confident that any job in the publication industry is a stepping-stone to realizing her dream, Dolores excitedly immerses herself but soon grows disillusioned. She clashes with the head assistant, blurs celebrity private parts for trashy articles, and after working 10-hour days returns to an empty house night by night. Her passion for photography disintegrates into a disheartening loneliness that propels her to seek hope in a new form of escape. Seduced by what she believes is her first real shot at love, Dolores enters into a clandestine affair with her successful, sell-out, married boss Veronica Cohen. Their secret rendezvous speed up Dolores’ rock-bottom rollercoaster ride, propelling her into the final stage of existential madness and the end of life as she knows it.

SNAP Production Status:
Genre: Drama with Dark Comedic Undertones
Screenplay Complete; In Development
Produced by Lloyd Silverman & The Artists’ Colony (Producer of Oscar nominated film “Snow Falling on Cedars”)