DisGraced

Darkly Comedic Webseries. Five years after her big break turned out to be a big flop, a struggling actress must ask herself how much humiliation she's willing to endure for another chance to make it.

  • Eric Williford
    Director
    The 8th Plague, Carver, Tithes, Dollar
  • Victoria Vertuga
    Director
  • Franklin Guerrero, Jr
    Director
    The 8th Plague
  • Victoria Vertuga
    Writer
    Tithes, We Accept Cash
  • Eric Williford
    Writer
    Dollar, Tithes, We Accept Cash
  • Victoria Vertuga
    Producer
  • Eric Williford
    Producer
  • Victoria Vertuga
    Key Cast
    "Grace Greene"
    Dexter, Days of Our Lives, If Loving You is Wrong, The Trap
  • Tommy Hobson
    Key Cast
    "Roman "
    Sherman's Showcase, Fresh Beat Band, NCIS, Criminal Minds
  • Danell Leyva
    Key Cast
    "Derek Dashen "
  • Tal Berkovitch
    Key Cast
  • Susan Louise O'Connor
    Key Cast
    "Tulip Luna Harvest"
    NCIS, Orange is the New Black
  • Project Type:
    Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 25, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Eric Williford, Victoria Vertuga, Franklin Guerrero, Jr

Victoria Vertuga is a Los Angeles based actress/writer/producer/model/lover of slashes with a contagious energy and passion for creating. A California girl born & raised, she attended the University of Southern California where she graduated magna cum laude, proving she’s more than just another pretty face.

Victoria has always had a great appreciation of the arts and an intense love of the stage. Growing up, her family used to put on talent shows every summer where her eccentric- yet very talented- extended family would sing, dance, play instruments, and do full blown productions of plays. In high school she began acting and dancing in school productions. While attending USC, she began acting in student films and commercials.

After college, she took that long held love of performing and began pursuing a professional career as an actress. In 2013 she began her television career on the long running soap opera “Days of Our Lives” and the hit Showtime series “Dexter." She has filmed commercials for brands such as Budweiser, Toyota, Gap, Valley View Casino, and many more. As a model, she’s been featured in everything from FHM Magazine to charity pin up calendars to major commercial print ads to coffee table books and art galleries across the country and abroad.

In 2018, she branched out into writing with her writing partner Eric Williford. Together they penned a half hour dramedy pilot called Tithes. They followed that up by completing the entire first season, a short film, a feature horror film, and another 1 hour drama pilot that was recently a semi finalist at the highly competitive Austin Film Festival.

Their latest project, a darkly comedic webseries called DisGraced, will be released later this year.

Victoria is a huge animal lover, a proud dog mom to three rescue pitbulls, and enjoys doing volunteer work with Angel City Pitbulls. She’s also a self proclaimed foodie, which she credits to coming from a long line of fantastic Italian cooks; and an avid lover of traveling.

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Director Statement

Hi. I'm Victoria. And I'm a woman. A woman who happens to have blonde hair and big boobs (provided by genetics, not a hair salon and plastic surgeon) and a moderately pleasing face. I'm also a woman who chose to pursue a career as an actress. I know. How cliche. Over the years I have had extreme highs and even lower lows and some truly outlandish and wacky experiences. DisGraced is the watered down version of many of these experiences, because fact is always stranger than fiction.

DisGraced isn't about Harvey Weinstein level atrocities, but lands somewhere between unwanted Joe Biden hugs and uneven workplace pay.
At its most basic core, DisGraced explores what it's like to be an actress trying to make it in Hollywood: emphasis on actress. While the #MeToo movement has recently shined a light on some of the most extreme and dramatic ways women experience sexism in Hollywood, DisGraced is focused on the more mundane, common place, but no less insidious forms of sexism. The way young women with any degree of attractiveness are only allowed opportunities to be love interests, sex objects, and the endless variations of Hot Girl #1. It's being called honey, and sweetie, babe. It's being constantly told to lose ten pounds if you want to work in this business. It's being only offered roles with nudity but no substance and then being slut shamed for accepting those roles. It is my hope and belief that women in any industry can undoubtedly relate to these every day experiences of mistreatment and misjudgment.

Similarly, so many series and films explore the glamorous and enticing side of the industry: what it's like to be a big star with adoring fans and endless opportunity. But there are the names lining the marquees that constitute a tiny percentage of the industry and then there is everyone else. Grace Greene is someone firmly in the group "everyone else." She's your average "hot girl" in Hollywood, getting a little long in the teeth and reaching the hot girl expiration phase. She's had a tiny taste of success, but her day to day consists of countless indignities and insults and humiliations.

We wanted to walk the line between cringe humor and ridiculous humor; between surrealism and realism. We wanted DisGraced to be a series you can both laugh at and learn from. So enjoy sugar tits! But make sure you don't eat any pop corn while you watch. Carbs go straight to your waist line.