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2 weeks

Logline:
When 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.

Synopsis:
As Tanya wakes up to the realization that she does not experience sexual attraction the way the majority of the world does, sexualization is thrown at her in everything she does. She is forced to understand that something is different inside of her. As an actor in an industry that perpetuates womxn's worth based on sex appeal and an immediate circle of friends who are "woke" to femxle sexual empowerment, her sanity begins to slip away.

  • Victoria Negri
    Director
    Gold Star, Paralysis
  • Margarita Zhitnikova
    Writer
    Jones, Triple Threat, Appetite
  • Margarita Zhitnikova
    Producer
    Landing Up, Jones, Self(ish), Linked, Pair of Normals, You're The Pest
  • Stacey Maltin
    Producer
    Landing Up, Sunshine, Jones, Shine, Self(ish), Linked, Pair of Normals, You're The Pest
  • Carrie Radigan
    Producer
    The Invadors, Jones, Self(ish), Engaged, Fake News Writer
  • Jackie Schwartz
    Producer
    Margin Call, Kill Your Darlings, Exorsisters
  • Margarita Zhitnikova
    Key Cast
    "Tanya"
    Landing Up, Slice (Best Actress Nominee), The Incoherents, Jones (Best Actress Nominee)
  • Analine Ignacio
    Key Cast
    "Izzie"
    Deadman's Barstool
  • Brad Calcaterra
    Key Cast
    "Don"
    Crashing, Gotham, Neon Joe, Blue Bloods, Bottle in the Smoke
  • JP Moraga
    Key Cast
    "Linus"
    Pillow Talk
  • Jenilyn Rodriguez
    Key Cast
    "Corey"
    Scars of a Predator, Sarah Q, A Most Violent Year, Ricki and the Flash
  • Coyote (Cinematography)
    Key Crew
    Shades
  • Keriann Corriea (Costume Designer)
    Key Crew
    Big Exit, Working on It, Pair of Normals
  • Stacey Maltin
    Editor
    Stronger Together, Linked, Viola
  • Ana Fernandez
    Sound Mix
    Self-ish, This Bra is Killing Me, Queens of Daytime, Jones, Baggage
  • Mateo Marquez
    Colorist
    The Invaders, Jones, Self-ish, Hannah for the Weekend,
  • Besties Make Movies LLC
    Production Company
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Stress Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Magical Realism
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 9, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • HollyShorts Film Festival (Screenplay)
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Screenplay Official Selection
  • Oxford Film Festival
    Oxford, MS
    United States
    World
    Official Selection
  • NewFilmmakers LA
    Los Angeles
    October 16, 2020
    Official Selection
  • LGBT+ Feedback Festival
  • Indie Short Fest
  • Midnight Film Fest
Director Biography - Victoria Negri

Victoria Negri is an award-winning writer/director/producer/actress. Her feature directorial debut, Gold Star, which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, features Oscar nominated actor Robert Vaughn in his last on-screen performance. The film has gone on to win five awards on the festival circuit, including two Audience Awards, Best Feature Film Award, the Lisa Blount Memorial Award for Acting at the Oxford Film Festival, and Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Curtin at the Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival. Gold Star was selected by incubator Big Vision Empty Wallet as an Inaugural Kickstart Diversity Film. Additionally, Victoria has directed and produced numerous short films, music videos and webseries featured at the Lower East Side Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Cleveland Film Festival, Cucalorus, Nitehawk Shorts Festival and more. She’s acted in award-winning features, shorts and webseries featured at: Cinequest Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, Tribeca and more. Always a cinephile, Victoria is serving as Guest Director of the 2018 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and a programmer on the 2019 Oxford Film Festival. Additionally, Victoria has written pieces on filmmaking for NoFilmSchool, BtchFlicks, Women and Hollywood, and The Talkhouse. She is a proud member of The Film Fatales, NYWIFT and The FilmShop.

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Director Statement

"2 Weeks" is a film about asexuality told in a cinematic, genre-fueled way. It's about finding courage to own who you are and not letting the pressure of the world take you. I look to many films for inspiration, both horror films and films about misunderstood protagonists, and struggling heroines.