Active Projects
A look at some of our projects under fiscal sponsorship
SASAENG
SASAENG is an elevated, female-led psychological thriller set inside the high-pressure, high-gloss world of KPOP fandom. Blending music, mystery, and obsession, the film follows a young fan whose desperate desire to be seen spirals into a dangerous collision with the idols she worships. Stylish, intimate, and emotionally charged, SASAENG is poised to resonate with both global KPOP audiences and fans of prestige indie cinema.
The film is produced by Crooked Pine Motion Pictures, an independent Los Angeles–based studio known for bold genre storytelling and character-driven projects. Led by filmmaker Lindsay St. Laurent, Crooked Pine focuses on female-forward narratives, international appeal, and dynamic visual worlds. SASAENG brings together an expert creative team with experience in post-production, digital media, music-driven filmmaking, and global pop culture engagement.
Be part of the movement. Support independent cinema that dares to take risks — and join us in bringing SASAENG to life.
Contribute today: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/sasaeng
Contact: lindsay.crookedpine@gmail.com
Golgotha
In the quiet corners of a dying town, Detective David Hill follows a trail of murders that grow disturbingly intimate. Each case pulls him deeper into a world where guilt lingers like smoke and the past refuses to stay buried. As David moves from crime scene to nightmare, he's forced to confront the truth he's spent his life avoiding. Time fractures, memory bleeds into reality, and the line between detective and victim begins to dissolve as David descends into the one case he can no longer outrun: his own. Golgotha is a psychological horror noir about grief, sin, and the ghosts we create for ourselves.
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Contact: dante.mecionis@gmail.com
Live! And in Person
Summary: Live! and In Person is a Sapphic, Psychological Thriller. Set in the early 90s, this experimental film combines a live stage performance, with arthouse narrative filmmaking. With her first book gaining quick popularity, author Nora Casey gears up for her first live interview on late night television. When the Host reveals she can never leave until the show is complete, Nora is trapped until confesses her sins. She is forced to participate in tests of morality, sadistic gameplay, and reveal the truth behind the death of her secret lover.
Live! and In Person is a desperate attempt at redemption, and questions societal standards of morality in the face of fame and fortune.
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Contact: Lee@indierockfilms.com
A Meaningful Night
Logline: After filming a brutal murder, a young vlogger is kidnapped by the killers; three eerily composed strangers with a terrifying agenda.
To survive the night, he must decide what he believes in and who
he's willing to become.
A Meaningful Night is a horror film about indoctrination disguised as protection. It's about how systems of power don't just brutalize, they convert. How they seduce people into moral
surrender, then reward them for staying silent. This story couldn't have been made five years ago because we were still reacting -- and if we wait any longer, we risk becoming too comfortable
to feel it.
We are living in a time where fear is weaponized, and reality is being rewritten in real time. The erasure of very real history in order to better manipulate current and future generations has
entered a speed run as institutions and individuals -- emboldened by the lack of pushback they've received, continue to stretch the limit of their authority. They are garnering public support
both overtly through forms of manipulation, or covertly through seductive measures leading to resigned complacency or apathetic indifference. A Meaningful Night had to be made now
because the horror this film explores is no longer creeping in. It's already here.
This isn't a spectacle. It's a mirror. A psychological trap. A dissection of how ideology is implanted one soft compromise at a time. We've all become Simon in some way choosing survival, choosing comfort, or choosing not to look. This film forces us to ask: what would I do in his place?
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Contact: Emma Francis emmafrancisfilms@gmail.com
