Demon Girlz
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Logline
Cute meets dark. Pink on black. An absurdist comedic film with kick-ass teen girl protagonists, bad-ass demons, and smart-ass feminist allegory.
Synopsis
In the Demon Girlz world, demon-hunting isn’t about battling your way into the underworld. It’s more like household pest control. A blaze of stoner demons. A flex of muscle-bro demons. A complaint of Karen demons. Not full-on evil, but you sure wouldn’t want them in your home.
Willow (13) comes from a legacy of demon hunters. Women who have passed down demon hunting knowledge for hundreds of years.
Cam (13) is a business prodigy; they have college degrees in business administration and in Demonology Ethics with a specialty in diabolical rhetoric.
Together Willow and Cam run Demon Girlz, along with Heck (presents as mid 20s, actually 3,000+ years old) a bound demon who has assisted Willow’s family for hundreds of years.
Willow has taken over from her retired grandmother, Bella, and is anxious to re-brand the business and prove herself. She wants to perform a demon-hunting task without help from Heck.
After a successful service call, Willow, Cam, and Heck encounter Hellcat (late 30s), a textbook demon-phobe, who spouts off all the offensive stereotypes and fetishizations. Heck’s seen and heard it all before, but Willow is adamant something must be done.
And then stuff gets weird.
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 19’
Aspect Ratio: 1:2.35
Screening Formats: 2K, ProRes 422
Sound: Stereo
Shot on: Panasonic S1H 24p
Language: English
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Neil Carlson
Director/Producer/Editor
Neil Carlson graduated from Gonzaga Univeristy in Spokane, Washington with degrees in Broadcast, Theater, and Journalism.
Neil has produced and directed music videos for Desperate Electric, Grant Ferguson, and Gildahouse -
Virginia Korus Spragg
Writer
Virginia Korus Spragg is a screenwriter with two produced credits: AN UNFINISHED LIFE (directed by Lasse Hallström, with Jennifer Lopez, Robert Redford, & Morgan Freeman), and AS COOL AS I AM (directed by Max Mayer, with Claire Danes, Sarah Bolger, &James Marsden).
She's been a member of the WGA-West since 2001.
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Geena Pietromonaco
Heck
Geena Pietromonaco is an actress/writer/director based in Seattle, WA. Geena’s film ‘Impenetrable’ was accepted to the Seattle International Film Festival.
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Gena Gale Burghoff
Hellcat
Gena Gale Burghoff was born on July 20, 1975 in Santa Monica, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Behind the Waterfall (1995), Providence (1999) and A Letter for Joe (2013).
CREDITS
CAST
Willow - Leo Hiltner
Cam - Ellesse Porco
Heck - Geena Pietromonaco
Hellcat - Gena Burghoff
Bella - Guynema Terry
Jennifer - Jill Bross-Schmechel
Old Man Demons - John Clayton, Mark Spragg, Don Redfoot, Steve Muth, Gary Leete
CREW
Director/Producer/Editor - Neil Carlson
Writer - Virginia Spragg
Story By - Neil Carlson, Virginia Spragg, Leo Hiltner, Ellesse Porco
Producer - Jeffrey Kampfe
Assistant Camera/Lighting - Sam Lustig
Audio Mixer/Recorder - Tyson Kreiter
Foley/Sound Design/Score/Original Song -
Kayti Korte, Ben Morris
Colorist - Ryan Nordin