I make films and write about marginalized women. Women in danger, dangerous women. I relish taking on women stereotypes and I enjoy kicking over a sacred cow.
PROJECTS
Little Sugar- Quarter finalist selection for Screencraft 2020 & 2023
Set in the tumultuous 60's. While in juvenile hall, Grace, 15 years old wakes up after delivering her baby to find it has been adopted with out her permission. Four generations of women confined by the limitations of the times they were born in, struggle to hide secrets and defend their world view. Grace's journey to find her child rips the lid off of them all. In her journey to find her child she finds her voice.
MOONSHINE MAMA’S - a play with original music now also a limited T.V. Series.
MOONSHINERS FATE
Think Yellowstone with women leads that take us from 1920's Tennessee Moonshiners to present Whiskey Tycoons, still kicking in their hundreds. From prohibition to the present, we witness children lost from racism, Fed's, betrayal, children fathered by the least expected and murder. Dirt poor to billionaire whiskey barons, what is richer than the money these Mama's have accrued? Trying to finally tell the truth to keep the family's together the secrets they have buried may destroy them and their fortune.
GROUNDLESS - One hour T.V. Pilot -Episodic. "Where the only ground to stand on is the ground you take." Kate Anthony, a human rights attorney must decide if she will defend the Saudi woman her husband has been sleeping with to prevent her inevitable execution if she is deported. Kate enlists her best friend and together they step over the line of the law to save a life they fake a death. Once they have tasted lawlessness they find it delicious. And they are good at being bad.
THE PHYSICS OF KILLING -ten min play and short film- The Oversteegen sisters lured Nazi's into the woods and killed them during Hitler’s occupation of the Netherlands.
The film has won 3 grand prizes, selected for a Toronto International Women’s Independent Award - 9 other Festival selections - best Director and IMDb writer, producer credit.
WE’RE NOT DEAD YET A multi award winning webseries in it's 3rd season on YouTube. L.A. the epicenter where youth is venerated to a religious fervor find Dita and Lilly defy ageism while taking Hollywood on. Watch a modern day Lucy and Ethel walk the balance beam and always go off the rails. No matter how bad or how far the fall, they always land on their feet to show the world, it is never too late to follow your dreams. Written, produced and performed in collaboration with Two Heads are Better Productions.
THE TOWER A ten minute play set in 1536 London. A Queen and a Peasant wait for their executions and find they have more in common than they imagined.
ABIGAIL-ABBY NORMAL Pilot for TV. A series to bring awareness and the reality of a teen who lives with entractable epilepsy. Think Atypical, As We See It, with Joy Ride thrown in. Also made into a musical-totally different then the TV Series.
ABBY-NORMAL- a Musical about Epilepsy, the least researched or understood brain disorder in our country. It is a story about a young girl, her battle with seizures and all that they impact in her life. Abby struggles to cope with Seizure, a character in the play, a life size obsticle to her dream of becoming a filmmaker.
SHE WAS DICKS' TRACIE ten min play. A crime Noir satire - The gal always gets her man.
HOT MESS-ENGER ten min play - Multi-verse and Higgs Boson have a converstion trying to decide how to explain to humanity how everything evolved. "Where in the hell did we come from?"
SCALES OF TIME A ten min play The Los Angeles River is being restored. This is good news for many reasons. For this play it is good news for Steel Head Trout. Once critically endangered, we hear all about it from the fishes mouth.
All projects may be viewed on SandraCruze.com -- Sandra Cruze IMDB cruzesandra@yahoo.com Instagram @sandra_L_Cruze
