Private Project

Thin Slicing

While bickering outside of a bar about the confusing love square they're in with other friends, Greg and Anne accidentally forge a connection that catches them both by surprise.

  • Catherine Ann Taylor
    Director
  • Catherine Ann Taylor
    Writer
  • Catherine Ann Taylor
    Producer
  • Phillip Ieyoub
    Key Cast
    "Greg"
  • Hannah Papizan
    Key Cast
    "Anne"
  • Ciearra J. Taylor
    Key Cast
    "Cara"
  • Tyler Horn
    Key Cast
    "Tovin"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 19, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Louisiana Film Prize
    Shreveport, Louisiana
    United States
    October 2, 2020
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Catherine Ann Taylor

A South Carolina native and Tulane alumna, Catherine Ann Taylor has lived in New Orleans, Rome, New York City, and now the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Her roots are in theatre direction and writing; she has directed for nine years, and was educated in the Stanislavski tradition. She has taken plays to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, worked for boutique Broadway firm Red Spear Productions, and worked with the English Theatre of Rome, Manhattan Repertory Theatre and the Players on Gramercy Park, among others. She was most recently a theatre judge and talent scout for Red Spear at the 2020 Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. She intends to transition into screenwriting and film production in the next phase of her career.

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Director Statement

THIN SLICING began as a play; a recounting my friend’s strange conversation with acquaintance outside of a bar. It was so absurd that I wrote it down as she spoke. She wants to sleep with him, but he wants to date the girl inside.

Their dance drew me in because it was raw, honest dialogue that, in short time, encompassed all of the big things we grapple with in our humanity: sex, love, rejection, insecurity. Third (and fourth!) parties. Truth, lies.

These characters morphed once they were on paper. Their backstories appeared, borrowed from stories I know and created from ones I made up. Their baggage was lurking all along, waiting to trip up these two young people who have experienced so much and yet so little in their twenty some years.

This story is ultimately about two people being confronted with someone they could actually love, and I wanted to explore that as the ultimate catalyst for finding out who - and where - we really are. Their traumas and insecurities bubble up, froth over. They can choose to wrestle with them, with each other, or run for the hills.

That strutting and fretting upon the stage is what I explore here. I want to showcase our humanity, and remind everyone that the strange, complex, often messy truth of ourselves will never cease to shock us.

Once these characters remove their carefully constructed masks and actually connect, they cannot go back into hiding. They, like us, have the luxury of laughing at love until it’s real, and then it’s high stakes stuff with the power to transform our lives forever. How inconvenient!

And that begs the question: for these two, what next?