Isle of Caprice is a micro-budget comedy feature about Courtney, an unsuccessful New York City filmmaker in her thirties who is surrounded by the success stories of her friends. On a trip to Mississippi to visit her mother, Courtney believes she has found the perfect documentary subject in the Isle of Caprice, an island off the coast of her hometown that was once a bustling dance hall and speakeasy during times of prohibition, only accessible by boat. The entire island sank at the end of the roaring 20s due to a series of natural disasters, leaving only myth and stories behind. While Courtney works on her film, which immediately reveals itself to be a disaster, she spends an unhealthy amount of time with her mother, a larger than life personality who is addicted to slurping a vape pen and telling complicated stories. Tensions mount as Courtney projects her own failures onto her mother and as she encounters the complications of making art about her hometown, where she has paradoxically become an outsider. She also struggles to find the line between authentic portrayal and exploitation of the Southern women she casts in her film.
The film will feature Courtney Bush, playing herself, as well as her actual mother, Kim, and a cast of non-actors from the filmmaker’s life in Mississippi. It will also feature what remains of the actual Isle of Caprice, once dubbed the Monte Carlo of the South.
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