“all in favor” | tv pilot
“all in favor” | tv pilot
Genre: Drama
Year: 2020
About: Whenever controversy sparks at Kings Metro College, one Committee's vote speaks as the students' decision. In this pilot, the Committee gets in-too-deep to investigate their favorite Professor’s highly-controversial tweet from the past. Lips lock, feelings arise, and tensions run high as a debate over privacy and political correctness threatens to divide everybody.
Directed by: Sally Lomidze
Director of Photography: Luis Romero
Created by: Brian Dunphy
Produced by: Brooklyn College
Awards:
WINNER - New York International Film Awards - Best Series Pilot - 2020
AWARD OF MERIT - The IndieFEST Film Awards - Television Pilot Program - 2020
AWARD OF MERIT - The IndieFEST Film Awards - Liberation / Social Justice - 2020
HONORABLE MENTION - Los Angeles Film Awards - Web/ TV Pilot - 2020
HONORABLE MENTION - Festigious Film Festival - TV Pilot -2020
FINALIST - New York Movie Awards - Web/TV Series - 2020
Director’s Statement
We live in the age of social media: everyone and everything is just a click away. Being part of social media means that your past stays online forever, and what you say online now may backfire in the future.
When I read the script for All In Favor, I was immediately drawn to the theme of being defined by your past and #CancelCulture. Imagine if you found out that your favorite Professor you looked up to was being accused of posting a highly controversial tweet 5 years ago. Would you vote to fire them? I wanted to be impartial in telling the story and present both sides of the argument, leaving the choice up to the audience.
Visually, I wanted to express two ideas:
First, there are always going to be people with opposing views. We used black-and-white voting stones to represent the extreme ends of the spectrum: those who think that we should be held accountable for our past and those who think that we all deserve a second chance and should not be defined by our past.
Second, having opposite views doesn’t make us enemies. On the contrary, if we want to solve social issues, we need to start talking to, and, most importantly, listening to people with opposing views. We are all in this together, and I wanted to create that welcoming feel with a soft warm color palette, and some chill indie-style music.
I really hope that this show continues the discussion around social media privacy and political correctness.
