When writer and director Millie Loredo awoke from an
extremely vivid nightmare, the first thing she did was grabbed a pen and paper
and wrote it down. Three pages later, she had her first draft of her treatment
for a short indie horror film.
Loredo took her small budget and cast to Utah and shot the
15-minute short film. She was proud of her work but felt like she could expand
the film to draw audiences into the story of a woman who takes back the life
she almost lost to deranged serial killers.
In order to turn Sorrow
into a full-length feature horror film, Loredo was going to need a bigger
budget. She and producer Dillon Bowen took to YouTube to ask fans of horror
films to donate to their Kickstarter fund.
“The reason we need this money is because we’re trying to
create and complete this feature film,” Loredo said. “Filmmaking is such a fun
process, but it’s also a lot of hard work. In the end, it pays off, because
whenever you - the audience - laugh or enjoy the film, then we’ve done our
job.”
Loredo continued, adding that films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Last House on
the Left, The Devil’s Rejects and I
Spit on Your Grave inspired her vision for Sorrow as a full-length feature
horror film.
Viewers eventually donated enough so that Loredo and
FilmsVerite Productions could film the now 90-page screenplay for Sorrow
with a cast that includes Hulu Network’s “East Los High”
star Vannessa Vasquez,
We Are Still Here star Andrew
Sensenig and indie film star Melissa Mars.
Loredo said she is grateful to everyone who donated and
hopes to see some donors at the upcoming screenings of the film. Sorrow will premiere next month on
Tuesday, April 21, at River
Oaks Theater in Houston, Texas and on Amazon
Prime. Loredo and Vasquez will then tour six cities in five different
states to screen the film.
“Our budget was definitely small, but we got it done,”
Loredo said. “We worked with what we had and were able to create the indie
horror film I had envisioned.”
By Alexandria Gonzalez
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