Ready to Connect

LOGLINE: Three co-dependent misfit expat friends navigate their own trauma in the foreign yet familiar seedy underground of Paris years following the November 13th attacks. Hattie, the main protagonist, a broken, tender street artist concerned with making art to spread love, desperately seeks all the wrong connections but when her raison d’être gets threatened by a rival, she hits the streets to save her reputation and herself to ultimately find out that the rival is the last person on Earth she would have expected to do such a thing.

A bilingual French-English, yet very British, dark comedy (à la Fleabag). A female Trainspotting meets debauched Parisian Sex and the City, with street art.

“Ready to Connect” is a 25-minute dark comedy series about Sam, Eva and Hattie - three diverse anglophone women - who flee to the city of love, the city of lights - Paris - in search of love, connections and desperate to escape their sordid pasts. Centered around Hattie, the short film is the first in a series that follows the women on each of their secret journeys. Hattie seeks the man she lost in the Paris attacks convinced she can find him through taking secret photographs of lovers; Eva’s desperation for a child has led her to put all of her eggs literally into Sam’s surrogacy basket despite it being illegal in France; and Sam wants to raise enough money to build back her family’s farm that was devastated by a forest fire and will take any job necessary.

Set in real, present-day Montmartre, we are taking back Montmartre from Amelie Poulain, and showing the gritty, yet still magical location in a more modern, edgy light with real bars, second-hand shops, hill-side arguments, prostitutes, vibrant shop owners and bar patrons.

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