Commercial Film Directing Duo
She’s The Future is the story of a young girl who sees a rocket launch with her dad and then grows up to become a space flight director. GE Girls is a non-profit sponsored by General Electric and is a program designed to encourage girls to explore the world of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and STEM-based careers. She’s The Future is an example of what girls can become with the encouragement of GE Girls.
We filmed over two days, one full day for the control room scene, and one day for the kitchen & field scenes. We shot the space control room in a local church’s media control room and used all practical graphics for the monitor screens. This allowed us to save more of the budget to go toward VFX for the rocket launch the dad and daughter see for a more realistic setting.
Casting an older and younger actor who both looked like they could be the same person, as well as finding an actor who could play their father was one of the biggest challenges. Through Gray Talent we found Andi Muriel, and then connected with her sister Abby who is 10 years younger and also acts, and cast them as the younger and older versions of the main character. We enlisted the talents of Jonald Jude, an actor and teacher at Second City, and also Filipino, for the father role.
