Private Project

Bite Me!

When a woman starts a killer new diet, the results are more than she can stomach

  • Colin Barrett
    Director
  • Colin Barrett
    Writer
  • Joshua Jensen
    Writer
  • Joshua Jensen
    Producer
  • Juliet Kimble
    Key Cast
    "Woman"
  • Steve Hassett
    Key Cast
    "Man"
  • Samantha Marks
    Key Cast
    "Jazzercise Dancer #1"
  • Maxine Hansford
    Key Cast
    "Jazzercise Dancer #2"
  • Valerie DiGloria
    Key Cast
    "Jazzercise Dancer #3"
  • Jenna Lovejoy
    Director of Photography
  • Shoshanna Fleury
    Assistant Director
  • Casey Schoch
    Story Consultant
    Dead Weight
  • Emma Beedenbender
    Story Consultant
    Dead Weight
  • Ali Walker
    Production Designer
  • Raphael Chinca
    Lighting
  • Alanna Porto
    Make-Up/Hairstyling
  • Nick Haaf
    Sound
  • Alex Anderson
    On Set Photographer
  • Diego Medina
    Grip
  • David Friedfertig
    Script Supervisor
  • Rachael Weinberg
    Production Assistant
  • Michael Kaplan
    Production Assistant
  • Joshua Jensen
    Editor
  • Keeghan Fountain
    Music Composer
  • Connor Cahill
    VFX
  • Brett Rogalsky
    Poster Design
  • James Johnston
    Voice Cast
  • Alex Anderson
    Voice Cast
  • Elizabeth O'Neill
    Voice Cast
  • Project Type:
    Student
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 53 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 17, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett is the Director and Screenwriter of Bite Me!. Barrett is a sophomore Cinema and Photography major with an English minor. Hailing from, Weymouth, Massachusetts, some of his biggest accomplishments thus far are a short documentary film exploring the Boston Marathon Tragedy and a short narrative fiction piece based off of J.D. Salinger’s “The Perfect Day for Bananafish.” He is also member of the DKA Professional Cinematic Society-Pi Chapter at Ithaca College and a Film Analysis Tutor for a first-year film theory course, Introduction to Film Aesthetic and Analysis.

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Director Statement

Looking for inspiration during a late night of watching Youtube videos and exploring the internet, I came across a old jazzercise video and Bite Me! was born. I was so infatuated with these old videos that are so aggressive and unbearably cheesy. The screams of “Oh God Yeah” or “Gag me with a spoon!”, everything just felt so vulgar. From that moment I started conceptualizing this story.
Firstly, I knew I wanted to make this a female driven film. Female driven films are a rarity in student films in my opinion so I wanted to highlight something of importance to me. It was also important to me that the woman would come out on top at the end of this film. I didn’t want to make the female’s journey cliche in anyway either. That’s where I came up with the idea of cannibalism. Although she would be tempted to kill her husband from the evil jazzercise dancers, I also wanted her to have her own agency.
I was nervous to pitch this idea to my class as it is a pretty violent and campy idea but I was happy with the result. First concern was to get a crew together for this wacky project. I wanted people to not only want to be proud of the project they are working on but I wanted them to be interested in the project itself. I wanted set to not be boring and just for a class, but a safe and fun environment that everyone would enjoy. Luckily with my amazing cast and crew I believe we got there.
I am so proud of this project and to be able to say I directed it. I'm so grateful for everyone who worked on it and can’t thank them enough. We all made our move with this film and I can’t imagine working on any other project this semester