Written by Michael Felker I spent the last twenty years writing features because I wanted to make a movie.It was my dream since watching indie films as a kid in the '90s. I wanted to make a profound movie more than anything else in the world—everything else in life came second. I spent Friday nights at home writing features instead of going out. I spent holidays figuring out how to write with an affordable budget. I took the old screenwriting phrase “write what you know” and spun it into “write what I have”. I wrote and wrote and wrote. Then, one day, I cracked it. I figured out the perfect indie feature that I could make with my own money, with my close friends, and with resources I had or could get for pennies on the dollar. This would be the the movie that would finally get the monkey off my back. This would be the movie that would change everything. And that movie is Timeshare.Timeshare was a story I wrestled with deep into the pandemic. The premise was: "on an isolated farmhouse, an old woman loses her husband through horrifying circumstances. When she’s pushed to sell her farmhouse, ghosts from centuries past appear and seemingly interact with her as if she was a ghost from their time, and visa-versa." It all eventually leads to a supernatural reunion that will either save the family from breaking apart or push the old woman to a grim fate much like her husband’s....
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