Crowd funding through Indiegogo, Director Shequeta Smith is seeking bail money for her Bad Granny
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Hollywood is chock-full of great directors and the alumni of talented African American Directors such as Steve McQueen,Lee Daniels, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, and John Singleton is growing. However, what we are not seeing is an equal presence of female African American Directors, but one woman hopes to change that and that woman is Shequeta Smith, CEO of Rayven Choi Films.
A graduate of North Carolina State University, a professional resume that includes working on shows like VH1’s Flava of Love, the CW’s Everybody Hates Chris, and a handful of successful short films she has directed; Smith now has her sights on feature films and has a hilarious comedy in the works and has launched a crowd funding campaign to get it off the ground.
The film is titled The Gestapo vs. Granny and is a comedy set inside of a retirement home that centers around Agnes Monroe, a no nonsense eccentric senior citizen who has been kicked out of 18 retirement homes and been arrested nine times for bad behavior while leaving a trail of outspoken victims from her shenanigans. In a hilarious twist Agnes is recruited to take on the shrewd owner of a retirement home that the residents have nicknamed The Gestapo. Agnes’ major “Senior Moment” is never realizing she is a senior…not even for a moment.
Smith launched her crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo on Monday and has a goal of $75,000 that her team is marketing as Agnes’ bail money and promoting on social media as “Free Agnes Monroe.”
Confident the campaign will succeed, Smith plans to shoot the film this Fall in Los Angeles with a dream cast and if all goes according to plan, Betty White will star in the film as Agnes Monroe. Smith has even initiated an online fan petition for Betty White to star in the role of Agnes.
To support The Granny vs. The Gestapo’s Indiegogo campaign, log on to www.FreeAgnesMonroe.com. Follow the campaign and film on Facebook atwww.Facebook.com/FreeAgnesMonroe and on Twitter,www.Twitter.com/FreeAgnesMonroe.
