Future Weather
Logline
When she's abandoned by her flaky single mom, a 13-yr-old loner becomes obsessed with global warming, forcing her and her grandmother to confront each other and the things they can't control.
Jenny Deller
Writer/ Director
Jenny Deller is a writer, director and actor living in Philadelphia. Her feature-length screenplay, Future Weather, won the 2009 Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay at the Nantucket Film Festival. In 2009 the project was the recipient of the Film Independent Producers Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Future Weather was also a finalist for the 2009 Netflix FIND Your Voice Film Competition. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Young Scholars grant, Deller has been writing fiction for over twenty years, and directing theater and film since attending high school at the Illinois Math & Science Academy. She has directed and edited eight short films, including documentary video series for Drew University and Anthropologie, where she served as Senior Copywriter. After graduating with a self-designed major in writing, acting and directing from Lewis & Clark College, Jenny went on to study acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and in New York at the Ward Studio Meisner Program and American Mime Theater. Her appearances include Law & Order and several Off-Broadway productions including Romeo & Juliet. Deller was selected to participate in the 2009 Film Independent Screenwriters Lab and Producers Lab.
Kristin Fairweather
Producer
Kristin Fairweather has worked in local politics and public finance in Philadelphia for the past ten years, managing public relations campaigns as well as large field efforts for local politicians – an experience that translated well to film production. Before going to work at both local and state levels in public finance and elective politics, she received her Masters in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2007, Fairweather launched the Philadelphia franchise of Metropolitan Moms, a service that organizes trips and cultural activities for moms and babies. As a producer, her entrepreneurial savvy has aided in development and marketing for Future Weather and will play a crucial role in managing pre-production. She was instrumental in producing Save the Future, Deller's companion-short to Future Weather for the Netflix FIND Your Voice Film Competition. Kristin was selected to participate in the 2009 FIND Producers Lab.
Jennifer Dubin
Executive Producer
After working in production on various feature films, Jennifer assisted a Talent Agent at ICM in Los Angeles. She then joined the development team at Cosmic Entertainment, the production shingle for Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson, and Oliver Hudson followed by a stint at Sony-based Escape Artists. She began producing full-time in 2004, with the film THE BABYSITTERS, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her production company, Present Pictures, was founded with partner Cora Olson in 2006. Their most recent film, GOOD DICK, was written and directed by Marianna Palka and premiered in Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Together with the filmmakers, Dubin and Olson distributed GOOD DICK in the US, releasing the movie in seven cities theatrically and across all other platforms. Their work on this project has become a model for other indie filmmakers looking to do self-releases, and has been written about in Variety.
Cora Olson
Executive Producer
Cora Olson began her career at The Gersh Agency and later became the Director of Development for Collision Entertainment, overseeing projects for Miramax/Dimension, Beacon and Focus Features. In 2004, Olson began producing independently, packaging and raising financing for the David Ross project, THE BABYSITTERS. The film was released theatrically in May 2008 and is now available on DVD, and currently running on Showtime Networks. Olson founded Present Pictures with partner Jennifer Dubin in 2006. Olson and Dubin have been panelists at the 2008 IFP Filmmaker Conference, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the 2009 LA Film Festival, and spoke at the invitation-only 2009 Sundance Creative Producing Summit last summer. Present Pictures is currently releasing the feature film TiMER, which premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.