Live! and in Person is a Psychological Thriller Feature Film.
Set in the early 90s, this experimental film combines a live stage performance, with arthouse narrative filmmaking. With her first book gaining quick popularity, author Nora Casey gears up for her first live interview on late night television. When the Host reveals she can never leave until the show is complete, Nora is trapped until confesses her sins. Forced to participate in tests of morality, sadistic gameplay, and reveal the truth behind the death of her secret lover.
Live! and In Person is a desperate attempt at redemption, and questions societal standards of morality in the face of fame and fortune.
What would you do to be famous? Who would you leave behind?
LIVE! AND IN PERSON IS CURRENTLY SEEKING COMPLETION FUNDING FOR POST PRODUCTION, MARKETING, AND FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY W. Graham Skinner
PRODUCED by Erin Rae Li
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED by Lee Rach
Lee Rach is a queer, non-binary writer and filmmaker originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lee found their calling to the entertainment industry after being accepted into the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists (SPCPA) with a musical theatre focus. There, they found an intense calling for writing from the struggle of being a teenage runaway and living in independent housing from their mid to late teens.
Most recently, their debut short film “She Keeps Me Warm” was the official selection of NEWFEST - The largest LGBTQ+ Festival in the U.S.
A STATEMENT
I’m a liar, I’m a cheat, I am a bad person.
I think everyone’s felt that at some point in their lives. I wrote the script with one concept in mind: What if I got everything I ever dreamed of, and everything was going right, and at my first talk show interview they had a list of everything I lied about as a teenager. Every questionable action, every decision made out of rage or simply being an unsupervised and desperate teenager, what if it was all written down on a handy little note card and I had to explain myself on live television.
How could I? I’m not proud of what I did, I just know I had to at the time. Or at least I felt like I had to. While the script is fictional, the feeling isn’t; and I know I’m not the only one that’s had to lie to better their life because the alternative option was to not live at all. So, I created an anti-hero that did bad things to bad people, and bad things to good people because they didn’t know what else to do, and now she has to live with it. Something I feel like too many people have experienced and don’t want to talk about because it’s hard to call yourself a good person that’s done bad things.
If I had to do it all over, I know I wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t push myself.
Yet, I’ll always wish I was better.
