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#WHATNEXT

In Los Angeles, Laura, an undocumented Eastern European immigrant begins to chase her American dream whilst having to stay under the radar. A day that goes horribly wrong...how much worse can it get?

  • Stanislava Ivy
    Director
    "I Know What You Did", "Echo"
  • Barbara Ross
    Writer
    "Ms Millennial", "Sold","Secrets of The Last Empire"
  • Marietta Melrose
    Writer
    "Atypical" , "Gloria Bell", "American Boogeyman", "Ism", "Chosen Kin"
  • Stanislava Ivy
    Writer
    "I Know What You Did", "Cinema Confidential", "Echo"
  • Marietta Melrose
    Producer
    "Atypical" , "Gloria Bell", "American Boogeyman", "Ism", "Chosen Kin"
  • Virginia Blatter
    Producer
    "No Longer Perfect", "Dark Passage", "Plasmid", "Insider"
  • Hassan Bashraheel
    Producer
    BTV Media Group "Before Noon", HBO Bulgaria
  • Marietta Melrose
    Key Cast
    "Laura"
    "ATYPICAL", "American Boogeyman", "Gloria Bell"
  • José Moreno Brooks
    Key Cast
    "Alex"
    "Telenovela", "Young and Hungry", "Jane The Virgin"
  • Neetu Chandra
    Key Cast
    " Chantel"
    "Never Back Down: Revolt"
  • Time Winters
    Key Cast
    "Tom"
    "Blonde", "You're The Worst"
  • Project Type:
    Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 20, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Screen ATX
    Austin, Texas
    United States
    September 18, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Austin
    United States
    September 18, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Austin Under The Stars
    Austin, Texas
    United States
    October 23, 2021
    Official Selection
  • LA FEMME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    LOS ANGELES
    United States
    October 14, 2021
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Stanislava Ivy

Stanislava Ivy is a journalist, a writer and a director of documentaries and fiction. She has dedicated her journalistic career to traveling the world to interview some of the biggest names among Hollywood actors and directors such as Nicole Kidman, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Kenneth Branaugh, Ed Harris, Tom Hiddleston and many, many others. She created and hosted the first ever TV show dedicated to cinema in Bulgaria - "Kato na kino" ("Just like in the movies").

Her latest project is a documentary series dedicated to the cinema world - "Cinema Confidential". Stanislava travels the world for that to tell the stories of her characters in the different episodes of the docu-series.

Stanislava Ivy is also the writer and director of "I know what you did". The story is a criminal short thriller that deals with current world topics through the point of a human story.
She's also the author of four books.

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Director Statement

Please note this is an Executive Producer's statement as the Director (Stanislava Ivy) is no longer involved with the project.

#Whatnext is based on our Executive Producer's personal experience in La La Land. Working for extravagant social media influencers and divas in the heart of Hollywood whilst having to stay under the radar turns out to be an impossible task for our lead character Laura. We wanted to explore the life of an undocumented millennial immigrant (you see more about that in future episodes) who gets in trouble daily. Life happens to her and she never quite finds the flow as Laura troubleshoots and multitasks 24/7 serving her clients' endless impractical demands ("find me roses that last a year"). How much worse can life get for Laura and can she troubleshoot when everything is seemingly going wrong? Some of the topics throughout the series are equal rights and pay for assistants in Hollywood, hierarchy, rights for undocumented immigrants. With a sequence of comedic events we look into the life of an average millennial who deals with more stress, has more debt and less time for real relationships than previous generations.