Private Project

Power Out

Grace, a high school senior, and Laura, her single mom, are forced to relocate from Los Angeles to Laura's old childhood home in Minnesota. As a storm rages outside, Grace's now long-distance girlfriend is breaking up with her when her phone dies and the power goes out. Grace's urgent quest to charge her phone leads her on a supernatural event that reveals both buried trauma and who really matters in her life.

  • Lauren Keating
    Director
    The Feminist Cooking Show
  • Laurie Stark
    Writer
    Running From Running To, The Story Breakdown
  • Party Party Party Time Pictures
    Producer
  • Leah Anderson
    Key Cast
    "Grace"
    Irrational Man
  • Christina Baldwin
    Key Cast
    "Adult Laura"
    The Lumber Barron, HMS Pinafore
  • Carolina Sierra
    Key Cast
    "Child Laura"
  • Lauren Kinsler
    Editor
    U R A Dial Tone, King Bling, Lil' Strike, Calvin's World, After the Fire
  • Ryan Melling
    Director of Photography
    Superfan
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Drama
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.78:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Lauren Keating

Lauren Keating is a director of narrative film, new and classic theatrical work, and pop-up/site-specific events. She is the director/producer of The Feminist Cooking Show, which was featured on Stareable, screened at The DTLA Film Festival and was an official selection of The ITV Festival's Network Notes program. Keating’s theatrical directing/adapting work includes LULU, Comedie of Errors, Hamlet, Vanya, Measure for Measure and more. She has directed Off-Broadway, around NYC and regionally. She is a Mellon Foundation/TCG Leadership University Fellow and the Associate Producer at The Guthrie Theater, where she has directed A Christmas Carol for the highest grossing audiences in the production's history. She is a former Time Warner Foundation fellow, a Drama League alumni, a Lincoln Center Directors Lab member and a proud NYU/Tisch alumni.

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Director Statement

My drive to become a director came from the need to put myself and others like me, our LGBTQ family, into the picture. I am inspired to continue make space for marginalized voices, visibility to our Black &. AAPI colleagues and to create work that explores those deeper questions that can only be asked through the experiential and metaphorical medium of narrative filmmaking.