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All 5 of our new short films are now available on our Vimeo page! Check out the impressive work from 15 wonderful artists as part of our 2021 Poetry Project for !!!
https://vimeo.com/majoranxietypictures
a very small, very scared production company created by Natalie Belknap, Zack Peercy, and Tucker Tardif.
Dancing Girl
Written by Moe Lowe
Read by Meredith Rupp
Directed by Kyla Anne Spencer
Dancing Girl premieres 4/30!
Based on the poem by Moe Lowe
Read by Meredith Rupp
Directed by Kyla Spencer
Anatomy of a Prayer
Poem by W***y Doehring
Read by Julie Guerra
Filmed and directed by Natalie Belknap
Every Friday during , Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram () for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
Here's a short film full of nature to help you celebrate Earth Day! New short tomorrow at noon!
https://fb.watch/51RActIuEy/
Anatomy of a Prayer premiers on 4/23!
Poem by W***y Doehring
Read by Julie Guerra
Filmed and directed by Natalie Belknap
They say—trees
Based on the poem by Audrey Gidman
Performed and Read by Tuxford Turner
Cinematography by Jordan Tragash
Directed by Willis Weinstein
Every Friday during , Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram () for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
New short tomorrow, but we have two available already! Don't forget to like and share!
https://fb.watch/4Uf85cYKVy/
“They say—trees” premieres on 4/16!
Based on the poem by Audrey Gidman
Performed and Read by Tuxford Turner
Cinematography by Jordan Tragash
Directed by Willis Weinstein
my shadow father
inspired by the poem by ron anahaw
directed and performed by steve barroga
Every Friday during , Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram () for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
New short film tomorrow at noon! Start preparing yourself now...
my shadow father premieres on 4/9
Based on the poem by Ron Anahaw
Directed and Read by Steve Barroga
A Study
Based on the poem by Kimberly Dixon-Mays
Directed by Taylor Rankin
Voice Performance by Julia Morales
Every Friday during , Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram () for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
Happy ! Every Friday in April we'll be debuting a brand new short film based on the work of emerging poets and shot by emerging directors! We're thrilled to shine a light on so much talent! See you Friday!
A Study premieres Friday 4/2
Poem by Kimberly Dixon-Mays
Read by Julia Morales
Directed by Taylor Rankin
ACTOR REVEAL #5: MEREDITH RUPP
Meredith is a theatre artist and women’s health coordinator currently based in Chicago. She graduated with a BA in Drama from Kenyon College in 2019. In Chicago, she has worked with Oak Park Festival Theatre and Collaboraction. During the pandemic, she, working alongside fellow Kenyon theatremakers Sean Seu and Hannah Johnston, participated in two different independent virtual performances, Long Distance and Last Chance Dance. Last summer, she was also able to revive her role as Amy in Collaboractions’s Life Every Voice in a virtually reimagined production of the show. Meredith is extremely excited to be collaborating with one of her favorite writers (and people) Kyla Spencer for The Poetry Project!
ACTOR REVEAL #4: TUXFORD TURNER
Tuxford Turner (tux/t/they/them) is a nonbinary actor, writer, comedian, and filmmaker based out of Chicago, Illinois. A compulsive creator, Tuxford’s primary drive is in supporting stories that bring communities together through laughter and representation.
Tuxford’s current passion projects include a mix of production, performance, and community development. Tux has a crop of short films and series projects in various stages of production and development that center the stories of trans* and q***r artists. T is proud to currently serve as the Managing Director for “Chicago Made Shorts,” an online platform founded by Producer Imani Davis in October of 2020 as an accessible space for Chicago Filmmakers to exhibit their short films, and as a Co-Founding Bellhop for the Hotel Artistic Collective with Ms. Davis and Director Jamie Kreppein. Hotel is a community focused on creative and moral support for artists through and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. For updates on all of these projects as they roll out, follow on Instagram or check out TuxfordTurner.com.
Tux can be most recently seen in the short film “Neighbors,” on the platform, “They Wore Flowers in Their Hair,” on OpenTV, and the experimental comedy web series “The Quarantine Project,” self-produced for Tuxford’s IGTV and Youtube pages during the early stages of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic."
ACTOR REVEAL #3: JULIA MORALES
Julia Morales is a comedian, writer and performer originally from Houston, Texas. Currently, she writes and performs with The Second City in Chicago. She is an alumni of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). She is a recipient of the 2008 NBC Diversity Scholarship and a 2018 Bob Curry Fellow. Julia has studied, performed, and taught improv and sketch comedy in Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Chicago. She has participated in countless comedy festivals all over the nation. She has written and performed two successful solo shows, Don’t Tell Me To Shut Up and Behind Closed Doors. She has made appearances on CBS’ The Red Line, MTV’s Made, as well as a contestant on $100,000 Pyramid. She is also the founder of Stepping Stone Theater in Chicago.
ACTOR REVEAL #2: ....Steve Barroga!? A director...ACTING??? Stranger things have happened folks! Steve’s cooking up something beautiful for his short film next month and we cannot wait for you to see it! Since we’ve already posted his bio for the director reveals, we’ll just say Steve is kind, passionate, and has awesome taste in movies!
ACTOR REVEAL #1: JULIE GUERRA
Julie Guerra is an actor and writer currently based out of Chicago, where she lives with two other humans and two guinea pigs. She has a BFA in Creative Writing that she is still trying to put to use. Julie spends her free time reading, listening to music, and baking things that never turn out exactly the way they should. She is very excited and grateful to be a part of this project!
POET REVEAL #5: MOE LOWE
Moe Lowe is a poet living in Chicago. She graduated from DePaul in 2019 and currently writes across the city with the typewriter collective, Poems While You Wait. Her first collection of poetry, It’s Been Evening All Day Long, was released in August of 2020. Moe is currently working on a blog of her experiences, published through her website. When she’s not writing, Moe enjoys watching documentaries, hiking with her friends, or having a beer with her cat, Louie. Aside from being strikingly gorgeous, Moe is incredibly well-rounded, a near perfect writer, and has never, ever made a mistake, in any capacity, whatsoever, at all. www.moelowe.com
POET REVEAL #4: AUDREY GIDMAN
Audrey Gidman is a q***r poet living on the Kennebec River in central Maine. Her chapbook, body psalms, recipient of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in époque press, FEED, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ogma Magazine, e·ratio, Q/A Poetry and elsewhere. She received her BFA from the University of Maine Farmington and can be found figuring out an abandoned Twitter account .
POET REVEAL #3: KIMBERLY DIXON-MAYS
Kimberly Dixon-Mays is a poet, playwright and performer. A Cave Canem, Callaloo and Ragdale fellow, Kimberly Dixon-Mays’ poetry has been published in journals including RHINO magazine (finalist, Founder’s Prize, 2018; Illinois Arts Council Agency Literary Award, 2020) and Consequence magazine (finalist, Prize in Poetry, ‘14). She holds a B.A. in Psychology/Theater Studies from Yale, an M.A. in Afro-American Studies (playwriting concentration) from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Theatre/Drama from Northwestern. More at: www.kimberlyddixon.com
POET REVEAL #2: RON ANAHAW
Ron Anahaw is a playwright & poet based in Austin, TX. His work has been published or developed in the Kenyon Playwrights Conference, Riza Press, AAWW's The Margins, and Paragon Press. He previously worked at Upstart Co-Lab as a Program Assistant, and currently sits on the Board of Advisors for Table Work Press.
If you don't watch, we'll call you craven
Jonathon Rocha performs THE RAVEN
A TOAST TO POE premieres TOMORROW at 6PM!
This digital theatre video will remain available on our page through Halloween Night! A collaboration between Caroline Beadle, Lyric Simonson, and Zack Peercy, A Toast To Poe features classic readings and fresh takes on Edgar Allan Poe's prose and poetry. All artists involved remained socially distanced by self-taping their section at home and the project was brought together through the magic of editing by Major Anxiety Pictures! We can't wait for you to see the production!
You'll gasp, you'll gawk, you'll scream, you'll p*e!
Megan Hozick presents ANNABEL LEE
A TOAST TO POE premieres THIS FRIDAY at 6PM!
This digital theatre video will remain available on our page through Halloween Night! A collaboration between Caroline Beadle, Lyric Simonson, and Zack Peercy, A Toast To Poe features classic readings and fresh takes on Edgar Allan Poe's prose and poetry. All artists involved remained socially distanced by self-taping their section at home and the project was brought together through the magic of editing by Major Anxiety Pictures! We can't wait for you to see the production!
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Dancing Girl Written by Moe Lowe Read by Meredith Rupp Directed by Kyla Anne Spencer #NationalPoetryMonth #shortfilm
Anatomy of a Prayer Poem by Willy Doehring Read by Julie Guerra Filmed and directed by Natalie Belknap Every Friday during #NationalPoetryMonth, Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram (@majoranxietypix) for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
They say—trees Based on the poem by Audrey Gidman Performed and Read by Tuxford Turner Cinematography by Jordan Tragash Directed by Willis Weinstein Every Friday during #NationalPoetryMonth, Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram (@majoranxietypix) for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
my shadow father inspired by the poem by ron anahaw directed and performed by steve barroga Every Friday during #NationalPoetryMonth, Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram (@majoranxietypix) for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
A Study Based on the poem by Kimberly Dixon-Mays Directed by Taylor Rankin Voice Performance by Julia Morales Every Friday during #NationalPoetryMonth, Major Anxiety Pictures will be debuting a new short film adapted from a poem. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram (@majoranxietypix) for information on all collaborating artists and upcoming releases!
BIG NEWS: We’re bringing you a new short film Every Friday in April! Major Anxiety Pictures is excited (and scared) to be providing so many opportunities to so many talented people. Everything is still under wraps for a bit longer, but enjoy these Very Expensive logos while you wait! #shortfilm #filmmakers #indiefilm
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