Only Here and Now

Wartime, 1942. When 18 year old newlyweds Marjorie Hua and Private Tom Carlson arrive at the small inn for their honeymoon night, they're forced to wait for their room to be prepared. While waiting, their anxiety builds. Tom leaves for the war in the morning and what will their future hold? Will this first night together be their last? Finaly revealing the fears they've hoped to conceal, they're able to celebrate the strength of their love and seize the joy in the moments they have here and now.

  • RAYMOND SINGER
    Director
    GROUND OPERATIONS-BATTLEFIELDS TO FARMFIELDS, UKRANIAN RAILROAD LADIES
  • MICHAEL HOPKINS
    Director
  • EUGENIA BOSTWICK-SINGER
    Writer
    MULAN, IRON JAWED ANGELS, JOSEPH KING OF DREAMS, BEYOND OBSESSION, NIGHTSCREAM
  • ELLE WILLIAMS
    Producer
    THE ART WHISPERER
  • ANA MING BOSTWICK-SINGER
    Key Cast
    "MARJORIE"
    TIM ROBBINS' WE LIVE ON, UKRANIAN RAILROAD LADIES, ONLY HERE AND NOW, MEMBER TIM ROBBINS ACTORS GANG
  • SAWYER PATTERSON
    Key Cast
    "TOM"
    ADRIFT, ONLY HERE AND NOW, MARIN SHAKESPEARE
  • JACOB SCESNEY
    MUSIC
    MULTIPLE GRAMMY AWARDS, GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER
  • AMANDA McBROOM
    MUSIC
    GRAMMY NOMINEE, GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER for THE ROSE
  • DAVID DOLNIK
    DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    ONLY HERE AND NOW, MARTIN EDEN, MARRY ME IN YOSEMITE, NATTY KNOCKS, THE DOCTORS SECRET
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    50,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - RAYMOND SINGER, MICHAEL HOPKINS

RAYMOND SINGER (Director) has more than 150 acting credits in television and film. With his wife, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, he’s part of the award-winning screenplay team for Disney’s animated feature MULAN, HBO’s IRON JAWED ANGELS, DreamWork’s JOSEPH KING OF DREAMS, and movies for all the major TV networks. He’s appeared in and directed plays On and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters across the country and in Los Angeles. He’s the director-editor of the ultra-short UKRAINIAN RAILROAD LADIES, the award-winning documentary GROUND OPERATIONS — BATTLEFIELDS TO FARM FIELDS, and edited documentaries for Bill Couterié, HBO, Walk Your Talk Productions, Cut to the Story Films, the Ventura Farm Bureau and others. ONLY HERE AND NOW is his first narrative short film.

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Director Statement

I committed to this screenplay after Eugenia’s first draft and it developed into a full family project inspired by love. It’s a personal story for us, connected as we are to veterans, inter-racial families and to the stories we’d heard from Eugenia’s mom and dad about life during and after WWII. The shot selection and color grade of the film were inspired by the look and feel of films from that era.