A long illness has taken over Vin's marriage. For one day, his wife is elsewhere getting better. Alone in their apartment, he lets himself do the one thing he does when no one's home. That starts with bacon. 

This is my third film as a writer and my first as a director. I wanted the pressure-cooker feeling of one person, one location, compressing an entire difficult stretch of life into a single afternoon. I chose bacon because it's an everyday food. Everyone knows what it's like to want something they're not supposed to have.

We're raising $48,500 to make the film. It's a single actor in a single location, so the money goes on screen: the performance, the crew, and the edit, sound, color, and mix that get it ready for festivals. We aim to shoot before the end of the year and to premiere in spring 2027 on the Oscar-qualifying festival circuit.

Where your money goes

The full budget is $49,606. With a single actor in a single location, almost every dollar goes on screen:

$20,000: Executive Producer
$10,000: Co-Producer
$5,000: Associate Producer
$2,000: "Made Possible with the Generous Support of"
$250: Name in the “Special Thanks” end credits
$50: A thank-you on our social media

Gifts of any size are welcome and appreciated. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.

Dipti Bramhandkar (writer/director) is a Mumbai-born playwright and filmmaker; member of LAByrinth Theater Company (founded by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman). Two decades in advertising trained her in reduction, in finding the essential insight. Now she applies this to theater, film, and audio plays, with a sustained focus on desire, identity, and belonging. Plays: "Islands of Contentment" (Hypokrit Productions / The Tank), with Daphne Rubin-Vega, Laura Gómez, Kalki Koechlin, Danny Pudi. "Conjuring the King," Silver Palm Award. "American Rookie" (Luna Stage), her solo show. "Is There Even Porn in India?," invited to the Cape Cod Theater Project, Sonia Friedman dramaturgy. Guild Hall playwright-in-residence; Farm Theater Fellow, 2023–24. Films: "Joan's Teeth" (starring Kathleen Turner) — 3x Best Performance in a Short, 1x Audience Choice, 1x Best Short; on the festival circuit. www.diptibramhandkar.com

Neil Alexander Collier (producer) is a Pulitzer, Emmy, and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker who has spent two decades in 30 countries searching for answers. He started that search at the BBC in London, sharpened it on the front lines of the Arab Spring with Al Jazeera, and has carried it through work for VICE, HBO, and The New York Times, with a focus on the Middle East and Latin America. He directed and produced the film "So They Know We Existed" (2021), a portrait of life in Gaza that won a Peabody Award, and directed "Scout Master" (2022), the first feature-length production in Al Jazeera's "Fault Lines" series. In 2024, he was part of the New York Times team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and in 2025 he won an Emmy for his reporting on Gaza. He is also a painter and writer, working across screenplays and short stories. www.neilcollier.com

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