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Beige Barb in My Muse

Beige Barb’s self-contained world goes sideways when her free spirited neighbor crashes her dinner party.

A hyper realistic retro themed dinner party. Beige Barb’s neighbor Calliope, a modern day muse, wants Barb’s birthday party to be a blast! So she ignores Barb's instructions for a beige only palette and has a friendly takeover of the festivities.

Our Writer & Director, Aisha Singleton has congenital limb difference and wears a below the knee prosthesis. One of the lead Buddy’s, Crystal Rivers is a wheelchair user with Spinal cord injury & EDS. Eshaana Sheth, playing the role of Muse of Tragedy Melpomene is a young Breast Cancer Survivor who’s Neurodivergent. The Costume Designer and Producer, Haily Bond is on the Autism Spectrum, has MDD-major depressive disorder, bipolar, anxiety, CPTSD. A Band BILL on the soundtrack’s lead singer, Bill Gage has Down Syndrome. We have a multi-ethnic, multi-generational diverse crew & cast including transgender men and women.

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Natasha Kong (@theprincesskong) • Instagram photos and videos
Empire Source Wear (@empiresourcewear) • Instagram photos and videos
meg weck (@meg.weck) • Instagram photos and videos
Beck Selberg (@beckselberg) • Instagram photos and videos
Ben Lazarus (@nuggetstudio) • Instagram photos and videos
Asia Renee Smith (@asiareneeofficial) • Instagram photos and videos
Empire Source Wear (@empiresourcewear) • Instagram photos and videos
Anthony J.Resta (@anthony.j.resta) • Instagram photos and videos
Nathan Schuckman (@nathan_schuckman13) • Instagram photos and videos
Ryan Taalbi (@ryantaalbi) • Instagram photos and videos
Khadijah Iman (@khadijahiman20) • Instagram photos and videos
🦋 Crystal Rivers 🦋 (@crystal_rivers_) • Instagram photos and videos
Eszter Csepeli (@eszter_csepeli_dp) • Instagram photos and videos
Summer Collins (@summerandthelovers) • Instagram photos and videos
Ash (@deadashton) • Instagram photos and videos
Jordan Jones (@sirxnofgod) • Instagram photos and videos
Eshaana (@the_eshaana) • Instagram photos and videos
Frank Hegyi (@francispaulhegyi) • Instagram photos and videos
Greg Ansin (@ansingreg) • Instagram photos and videos
Lauren Loesberg (@laurloes) • Instagram photos and videos
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  • Aisha Singleton
    Director
    Ghost Bae
  • Aisha Singleton
    Writer
    Ghost Bae
  • Ryan Taalbi
    Producer
    Ghost Bae
  • Haily Bond
    Producer
  • Aisha Singleton
    Producer
    Ghost Bae
  • Inessa Frantowski
    Key Cast
    "Beige Barb"
  • Crystal Rivers
    Key Cast
    "Muse of Epic Poetry Calliope"
  • Ashton Herrild
    Key Cast
    "Brown Bob"
  • Avery Lynch
    Key Cast
    "Greige Greta"
  • Aisha Singleton
    Key Cast
    "Taupe Tammy"
  • Eshaana Sheth
    Key Cast
    "Muse of Tragedy Melpomene"
  • Jordan Jones
    Key Cast
    "Muse of Song Polyhymnia"
  • Haily Bond
    Key Cast
    "Muse of Comedy Thalia"
  • Natasha Kong
    Key Cast
    "Muse of History Clio"
  • Ryan Taalbi
    Key Cast
    "Dionysus God of Festivities "
  • Lauren Loesberg
    1st Assistant Director
  • Eszter Csepeli
    Director of Photography
  • Beck Selberg
    Assistant Camera
  • Meg Weck
    Gaffer
  • Nathan Schuckman
    Key Grip
  • Nicolas Emmons
    Editor
  • Aisha Singleton
    Writer
    Ghost Bae
  • Khadijah Holgate
    Story Editor
  • Crystal Rivers
    Script Editor
  • Ben Lazarus
    Sound Mixer
  • Solana Priestly
    Production Assistant
  • Haily Bond
    Costume Designer
  • Anthony Resta
    Composer
  • Greg Ansin
    Music Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 7, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Aisha Singleton

Aisha Singleton is a BIPOC Photographer and Filmmaker with limb difference. She’s a Boston native, LA based, Soho House Fellow & Unicef Next Gen Visual Storyteller specializing in conceptual fine art and documentary photography. Her deep sense of joy in the human spirit is evident in these various forms. Inspired by a spiritual connection to the natural world, her most recent tableau/project, Earth, Wind & Fire offers a critical lens of natural disasters as embodied in the divine feminine, and her deep love of music is showcased by her dynamic and visceral live music photography and playfully abstract album cover art.

Aisha’s first love is cinematography! Ironically it was while working on a film set, she discovered her passion for photography whilst taking production stills. She has always had her feet in both worlds, photographing for the Film Society of Lincoln Center and serving as the resident photographer for the Gotham (formerly The Independent Filmmaker Project). Prior to becoming a full-time photographer Aisha worked in Children’s Educational Programming on an Emmy Award winning show and on Peabody Award winning Documentaries.

Through her years of working with The Gotham she gained an intimate worm’s eye perspective of the challenges, joys and complexities of independent filmmaking. That love and reverence for the process of independent filmmaking has sparked Aisha’s latest endeavors into screenwriting and directing! In tandem with her symbiotic relationship with music and musicians she’s marrying all her loves, integrating them into works that dance off the page and will come alive on screen.

She aims to amplify diverse voices across cultures and abilities.

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Director Statement

Inspired by TV shows like I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched, my aim is to playfully explore the themes of isolation and friendship post pandemic. I choose to incorporate Muses as a vehicle to represent inspiration in a literal form. Often comically, magical beings in the real world despite their best intentions cause disruption in the humans lives they are attempting to help.

I can relate to Barb’s character in some ways as a social introvert, yearning for connection but desiring the conditions to be somewhat controlled. Prior to the pandemic my family and I would host huge gatherings on Sunday. There’s even an LA Times article about our Sunday dinners. However, today having a dinner party of three or four people feels monumentous. I love Barb’s determination to socialize on her own terms and I adore Calliope’s utter cluelessness that Barb would prefer to stay in her very safe bubble. We need Calliope’s who encourage us to expand beyond our comfort zones, buy that dress, ask that guy out or book a flight to another country on a whim. The story’s creator, Haily Bond Improv Actor and Stylist is that someone for me. So when she pitched the idea of Beige Barb, her friend, Comedian Inessa Frantowski's farcical character, having a dinner party gone awry, I decided to adapt it into a Buddy Comedy casting the brilliant Actor Crystal Rivers for this year’s Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. Who incidentally happens to be my neighbor.