/title/ INCELS

[A Tragicomic Anthology In Ten Unlovable Acts]

>Format: Feature Film

>Genre: Black Comedy Anthology

>Tone: Punch Drunk Love - You, The Living 

>Budget: $1-3 million

/LOGLINE/

> Incels is an audacious and provocative anthology film that takes us into the private lives of ten hopeless social outcasts who lurk behind the anonymous avatars of an Incel chatroom to glimpse what drove them to log on in the first place.

/SYNOPSIS/

>INCELs— members of an online subculture of young men who consider themselves involuntarily celibate and express resentment towards the women they perceive to reject them, as well as other men who are sexually active.

>Incels, the film, takes us into the tragicomic lives of ten hopeless young men who identify as involuntarily celibate. Peeling back the anonymity of their bitter and vindictive online personas, each character focused vignette reveals the sadder, weirder and more pitiful lives that fuel the vitriol they spew online. 

>Reflecting the international fraternity of the Incel community, each vignette takes place in a different country around the world with no two sharing the same region or culture. 

>From a Japanese Otaku who has his own step-father tied up in his basement, to an electric scooter riding Scotsman who calls in fake bomb threats, Incels takes us deep into the depraved, bizarre, sad and ridiculous behaviours that coincide with their distorted world views. 

>Incels is comedy rendered as black as it gets. While depicting entirely irredeemable characters in their most unlovable moments, the film does its best to shine a sliver of empathy on their sorry lives and ends with the feeling that perhaps, at least for some of them,  there can be a little light at the end of the tunnel. 

>To produce Incels, we plan to attach ten young up-and-coming directors who reside in the regions each chapter of the anthology is set. Through their involvement, we’ll then build a multi-national co-production by linking with their producer partners to effectively franchise out the production of each chapter as if it’s a standalone short film. 

>When all the final films are produced and delivered, we’ll apply for finishing funds through Screen Australia to amalgamate the individual shorts into a cohesive final product, creating a highly marketable and festival friendly film to launch upon the world.

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