HOMEWORK: Episode 1
Opportunity isn’t a right.
ABOUT
Madeline Walker is a biracial teenager in a high school system that treats minorities like prisoners. Her family and community neglect to give her guidance, but she has dreams. With ambitions for a news-writing internship, Madeline seeks out a recommendation letter from her English teacher. But when she receives a D on her writing exam under circumstances she knows are dubious, she comes to suspect Mr. Cunningham of deceit. What she can’t know is the unraveling conspiracy.
YEAR 2018
RUN TIME 7:42 Min
EMAIL darree@darree.com Website: darree.com
CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTED BY Darrée
SCREENPLAY BY Darrée
PRODUCED BY Darrée
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Daniel J. Helfer
EDITED BY Craig F. Johnston
MUSIC BY TJ Martin
PRINCIPAL CAST Constance Ui-seng François | Craig F. Johnston
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Homework is a web series set in a dystopian America manufactured by an unhinged president. With schools that prize test scores over morals and a media environment that publishes alternative news to preserve an inequitable balance of power, the culture documented in Homework reflects in many ways the state of our own nation. Comprising seven episodes, Homework follows a teacher who wants his students to fail, and a biracial teenager whose ambition to rise above her caste has everything to lose. While using the tools of fictional storytelling, I infuse in this pilot an underlying truth about current fears and frustrations with today’s misguided politics.
DIRECTOR BIO
Darrée is a photographer, designer, and educator whose interdisciplinary perspective and joy for organizing collaborative projects have led her to the producing side of filmmaking. She has taught for almost 10 years at both public and private schools nationwide and internationally. With her filmmaking and continued advocacy, she hopes to establish a system for integrating more creativity and experimentation into public schools. Darrée received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL PILOT EPISODE
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Darrée is a photographer, designer, and educator whose interdisciplinary perspective and joy for organizing collaborative projects have led her to the producing side of filmmaking. She has taught for almost 10 years at both public and private schools nationwide and internationally. With her filmmaking and continued advocacy, she hopes to establish a system for integrating more creativity and experimentation into public schools. Darrée received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
(Update provided in May 2018)