House of Balls - Pre-Production

Raising funds for a short. Sounds fun. Well.. it’s complicated.

At the end of July, I'm directing my dodgeball inspired short "HOUSE OF BALLS." Myself and my producers (Rhonda, Shadia and Tiffany) need your help!

HOW IT CAME TO BE:
A month ago when the whole #WGAstaffingboost became a thing. Submitted my pilot "House of Balls" to Rob Forman (Writer of IZombie, Army Wives) to see if it was funny enough. Cut to days later after getting another competition rejection letter, he wrote me, said how it was refreshing and funny. Uh self-esteem boost anyone? But the only thing people still had a problem with -

PEOPLE COULDN'T BELIEVE WOMEN COULD PLAY DODGEBALL

After getting my laptop stolen back in October with none of my scripts backed up - I took a hard look of what mattered most to me. I finally decided to raise funds for my action short film “HOUSE OF BALLS".

When I wrote the pilot, a few people couldn't imagine seeing women playing dodgeball at my age. Even a couple guys I dated thought it was unsafe for me to play dodgeball and that me getting hurt proved how I shouldn't be playing, ALSO that me playing with gay people wasn't good. Insert angry/crazy face.

If you didn't know by now, I love my girls, I love my womxn, I support us! Hoping this little short film will inspire women all over to do something they don't normally do.

THE NAME:
House of Balls is named after my championship winning #dodgeball team #HouseofBalls. Remember when #HouseofCards just came on... well my captain Alex, thought it would be funny to make it our team name with a lil fun to it.

Shotlisting with my DP




Kristina Thomas