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Grace desperately needs to take a poop before a workplace meeting. However, just as she prepares to make her deposit into the porcelain bank, someone else enters the multi-stall restroom and it becomes clear they are both in there to do the same thing. A POOP OFF is forced upon Grace, the one major rule - poop without a peep.

  • Rachel Ross
    Director
    Have You Tried, Maybe, Not Worrying
  • Rachel Ross
    Writer
    Have You Tried, Maybe, Not Worrying
  • Morgan Leigh Stewart
    Producer
    Deathgasm, Stick To Your Gun (Palm Springs ShortFest 2016), The F.E.U.C. (Palm Springs ShortFest 2013), K Rd Stories
  • Kate McGill
    Key Cast
    "Grace"
    Home By Christmas, Brokenwood Mysteries
  • Žiga Zupančič
    Cinematographer
  • Damian Golfinopoulos
    Editor
    Losing, PSUSY
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 5, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 NZD
  • Country of Origin:
    New Zealand
  • Country of Filming:
    New Zealand
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Alexa
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Show Me Shorts Film Festival
    Auckland
    New Zealand
    October 8, 2019
    World Premiere
  • Aesthetica Short Film Festival
    York
    United Kingdom
    November 6, 2019
    International Premiere
Director Biography - Rachel Ross

Rachel is dedicated to crafting authentic, honest, and empowering stories - stories that uncover human truths and encourage the beauty of vulnerability and fragility. It's all about light and shade - vulnerable grit meets wit.

Shorts credits include 2011’s TAYLOR receiving top mention in its category at Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, 2017’s NZIFF premiere and MIFF selection HAVE YOU TRIED, MAYBE, NOT WORRYING? and NZ Show Me Shorts Premiere/Best Screenplay Finalist and BAFTA Qualifying Aesthetica for comedy piece NUMBER TWO. Rachel was selected for the 2017 Accelerator Lab in Melbourne with HAVE YOU TRIED, MAYBE, NOT WORRYING?

Earlier in 2017 Rachel was the recipient of a New Zealand Film Commission’s Talent Development Grant. This screenwriting grant enabled her to spend 8 weeks at the New York Film Academy developing her first feature screenplay, EXHALE.

In 2019 she the recipient of the New Zealand Film Commission grant Catalyst He Kauahi to create short film GREEN and develop feature project EXHALE. In 2020 Rachel was selected for the Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator and a Nominee for the 2020 Women in Film and Television Awards for Outstanding Newcomer.

Current projects include development of feature film EXHALE and series SICK.

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Director Statement

Yes fellas, that includes us women - we poop.
Women, men, babies, animals, insects – we all do it.
However, there’s somewhat of a social etiquette in how we go about pooping.
Some people only feel comfortable doing it in their own home, some office’s have a self-named ‘poop restroom’ on a certain level – away from ear shot/having to be seen, and some people
just refuse to mention that they poop at all. However, we all do it - we just have different ways in which we execute it.
I was in a situation myself: in a multi-stall restroom, alone, needing to drop the anchor when another person bowled in and entered the stall right next to me. She sat down – we were both silent. It was clear we were both in there to do the same thing.
This sparked the POOP OFF rules.
If you’re in a multi-stall situation and you’re faced with an opponent who’s also making a deposit into the porcelain bank - the rules are as follows:
01. Successfully poop WITHOUT BEING HEARD and LEAVE WITHOUT BEING SEEN = WINNER
02. Failure to poop/bailing = LOSER
03. Successfully poop BUT IS HEARD and/or IS SEEN = LOSER
There were two losers that day as I bailed and the girl next to me failed to orchestrate the ‘landing pad’ method (Urban Dictionary definition for the Landing Pad: A layer of toilet paper, usually somewhere between 3 and 8 pieces, laid down on the surface of water within the toilet bowl before one has a bowel movement – to soften the “KER-PLUNK” sound that often occurs when poop breaks the surface tension of the water.) As soon as I heard the first one drop, I was out of there.
My method is to usually wait it out until my opponent has left the restroom: 1) because you cannot be sure the Landing Pad will faultlessly pull off, 2) you cannot guarantee a little fart will not come out with and 3) I just have more confidence in my pooping abilities when left alone.
So my tactic is to make as much noise as possible while I wait it out, with all things made accessible to me - toilet paper, a cough/sneeze, a rummage through my handbag ANYTHING – so that they do not know I’m in there to poop. It’s all a facade. Sometimes you can time it with a hand dryer noise, or with a flush of the toilet – but that’s a huge risk – so usually, I play the wait it out game.
However you do it – we all do it – one way or another.
So this film is simply one girl’s journey of desperately needing to poop – this is her poop journey.