Nina and Craig need new friends. Tonight, they will see if the new neighbors are good enough humans to qualify.
The method
Margin is an engineering word. It's the room you design in on purpose, so when something goes wrong — and it will — you're not out of runway. Most productions run with none. This one didn't.
Agree up front on what we're optimizing for and what we're willing to trade.
One document everyone works from. Schedule, budget, crew, gear, contingencies.
After wrap, write down what we learned so the next one costs less.
On set · The New Neighbors · Denver
Cast & crew
Nina
Tawnie Baker
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Craig
Max Schwartz
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Lance
Matt Carhill
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Co-Producer · Director of Photography
Don Markus
Runs Joywreck, the Colorado production company he founded in 2017 to make narrative shorts and features.
joywreck.com ⟶Written, produced, directed and cut by Dave Mercuri. Shot in Denver with a crew that mostly said yes because they wanted to, which is the only reason worth having.
