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RACHEL FARRELL is a screenwriter who happens to live in Whigham. She and her family moved to Whigham from Chicago in 2016.
A screenwriter in Whigham is preparing to film a web series in her new hometown that is likely to bring mystery and intrigue to Grady County. Rachel Farrell is teaming up with her brother-in-law, Brian White, a film director with Outjogging Pictures, to create “LOST/FOUND.”
“He’s been making short films for a long time, and I’ve been writing for a long time, but we’ve never teamed up before,” said Farrell during an interview Friday.
It was last Thanksgiving when the seed was planted for LOST/FOUND, she said.
“What if we did something where every season is based on something lost by one person and found by another?” Farrell said she suggested.
In the first season of “LOST/FOUND,” which will be filmed in Whigham next February and March, a novelist working on deadline rents a home in rural Georgia. A tornado, though, drops an iron lung in the home’s backyard and the writer discovers that inside is the body of a dead woman.
‘He is very inconvenienced by this iron lung,” described Farrell. “There are a lot of different opportunities for conflict.”
The first season, she said, will include approximately eight episodes that will last anywhere from four to seven minutes each.
According to publicity information, “The general conceit of the series — an object lost to one person is found by another — is simple enough to generate countless variations, but the beating heart of each season comes down to the characters who find themselves on the side of losing or finding. How do people with nothing in common relate to each other when brought together by strange, seemingly random objects?”
Farrell said they are currently in the process of getting the project funded, and are raising $10,500 using the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. They have set a deadline of Dec. 4 to raise the funds, and are already more than halfway there. The money, she explained will be used mainly to pay the actors and film crew for their time.
If everything goes as planned, the show will be finished and free for anyone to watch on the video website vimeo.com by May 2021.
“It’s a labor of love,” said Farrell.
Others involved in the project include Ricky Jordan II, an actor and producer from Atlanta, who will portray the novelist Marcus Tate. Farrell said her husband, Nick, who has an M.F.A. in studio art from U.N.C.G., is in charge of prop and set design and has built the iron lung.
Local actors are encouraged to watch the show’s Facebook page for opportunities to work in the production.
“I’d love to use people around here,” said Farrell.
Farrell is originally from Florida, but moved here from Chicago in 2016 with her husband and their oldest daughter, Ruby, now 6, to be nearer to family. Her sister, Miriam Wright, was already living in Whigham. Wright, who Farrell said has a culinary degree and past experience in catering, will be in charge of craft services for “LOST/FOUND.”
Farrell, 37, said she has an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Michigan and became interested in film writing in 2016. Armed with an agent and manager in Los Angeles, Farrell said she has most recently written a one hour comedy drama pilot titled “Okefenokee,” Her first screen play, she said, was “Age of Consent.”
The Farrells, which now includes 3-year-old Alice, reside in Whigham.
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