We are three best friends who love to make movies about our real experiences, analyzing, and more often than not, making fun of our own interpersonal dynamics and anxieties. In all of our films, we cast our friends and family members, and THE ISLE OF CAPRICE follows in this tradition. Courtney and Jake will play versions of themselves alongside Courtney’s mom, Kim, and Kim’s friends, Southern women in their 60s (“the real geniuses of language,” as Courtney says in the film), who will tell stories from their lives in their own words.

The idea for the film was inspired by Courtney’s very real infatuation with the Isle of Caprice – an Island off the coast of her Mississippi hometown that was home to a bustling casino during the Prohibition era. The island sank 100 years ago, and after learning about its existence, Courtney became obsessed with making a “poignant documentary” about the island’s history and the personal histories of the women that raised her. Simply put, she failed to do this, and the embarrassment of that failure opened up a new way of imagining the film as a meta-narrative comedy about creative failure and the impulse to mine one’s past for “authenticity.”

With this film – our first feature – we are excited to return to the same setting and community where we made one of our favorite projects, KIM BUSH’S ABDUCTION, a comedic short which stars Courtney and her sister as they juggle hosting a Christmas party while trying to track down their mother, who they fear has been kidnapped.