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Horror, Continued from page 6 with Michel, our director, saying I started watching footage they had
want to do this, let’s do this and then shot and piecing it together. Maggie
while living in LA. “It woke me up. It her husband Mikey saying yea and got slammed at TV Boy, so Mikey
was terrifying. I just grabbed my the two of them just, the project hap- and Michel started editing and put-
notebook and wrote everything I re- pened because of the two of them. ting it together. “I was worried when
membered.” The dream became a Those two gave me the help and mo- we shot it that we lost so much time.
screen play which she showed to tivation to make something.” We didn’t get everything we wanted to
friends. “If that’s a dream,” she was “The one rule of production is shoot. I am really happy with the
told, “I’d hate to see what you have hope for the best, plan for the worst, final product.”
for a nightmare.” and it’s still all the unexpected things The film was completed earlier
One day while talking to co-work- that happen,” said Maggie as they this year. A screening for cast and
ers, it was decided they should do a prepared for the weekend during crew, friends and contributors was
project together. Maggie’s friend, which the film, which is 15-minutes planned with a party at a Brooklyn
Michel Dominguez-Beddome, de- Maggie Colligan, 1993 Wayne Memorial long, would be shot. It turns out it venue for Friday, the 13th. March
cided she wanted to direct Maggie’s was a challenging weekend. 13th. And as things should go with a
screen play. The screenplay was al- graduate, recently finished filming her “Literally anything that could go horror story, New York Governor
ready 10 years old, so Maggie had to screenplay, What's in the Woods wrong did go wrong.” The truck car- Cuomo declared that he was locking
transform it with modern dialogue. rying the gear got a flat on the way to down New York on March 10. The
Then came the hard parts: finding a mind. It was very humbling. I was the location, a tree farm in Pennsyl- screening had to be postponed. No
location to film, determining how just so grateful that people wanted to vania that was closed for the season. one has seen the film yet except for
many cast members were needed, help me out. One of my favorite Another car got stuck in the mud be- Maggie, Michel and Mikey.
creating a budget and doing a things was friends from my child- cause it was raining so hard. “I What’s in the Woods is an official
fundraising campaign. “All of the not hood I hadn’t talked to since middle haven’t slept in five days, This is selection for the Fall 2020 Oregon
fun stuff. My most hated process (the school donating.” great,” she laughingly recalls about Scream Week happening this month.
fundraising) AND the thing I loved “I’ve always loved horror movies,” that weekend in November 2018. It’s also a selection for the Indie
about it.” Maggie confides, “I’m not said Maggie. “I blame that on my sis- “People don’t understand how many Memphis Film Festival, appearing
comfortable asking for money. I had ters. It was a neat experience to go people it takes to put something to- later this month.
so much anxiety when we launched from all that uncomfortable anxiety gether. You just have to have the right “When I think of my first love of
it (the fundraising campaign) and to validity of what you are doing.” team. I am very grateful I had so movies as a kid, it was the State
put it out there, but the amount of Maggie gives a lot of credit to many connections to so many tal- Wayne Drive-in on Michigan Avenue.
support we got from people, from lit- Michel and her husband, Mikey ented people to help us out.” My parents would take us to the
erally all walks of my life, it blew my Dominguez-Beddome. “It started A few weeks after filming, they drive-in, and I have good memories,”

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