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Fountain Hills Theater alum comes home to preview film
Barb Charzuk, Times Reporter
Kyla Druckman, center, recently visited her parents, Patricia and Michael Druckman, and updated local financial supporters that her film, "Crazy Town," has been completed.
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Barb Charzuk, Times Reporter
“Crazy Town,” a movie written and produced by Kyla E. Druckman, is “in the can.”
Her next venture is to submit the short film to film festivals.
Druckman, 26-year-old daughter of Patricia and Michael Druckman, updated supporters April 20 about the film’s completion.
She raised $16,000 at a fundraising website, Kickstarter, for the project. Her production company is Toad in the Hole Productions.
“This is the beginning of a long run,” Druckman told financial backers and friends at a screening party in her childhood home at SunRidge Canyon.
Replacing key members of the creative team in the middle of the project resulted in a delay in finishing the film on schedule. By the time the movie was done, the deadline to submit the film in this year’s film festivals had expired.
She plans to enter the film in upcoming film festivals, among them Phoenix, Palm Springs, Sundance and Telluride.
“We’re shooting for the big and small,” said Druckman. She also plans to concentrate on submissions to women’s film festivals.
Success at film festivals could be “stepping stones” to being hired to produce a full-length movie, her ambition, said Druckman.
Meanwhile, she works two jobs in Los Angeles hotels and accepts acting roles for television projects.
“Crazy Town” production expenses exceeded her initial budget, Druckman said, but she declined to say the amount.
“Girls never tell how much they spend,” she said.
Her film project has been in various development stages for the last five years. She went into pre-production nearly three years ago. Filming began last February; editing was completed around the holidays at the end of December.
The dark comedy is the delusional tale of a Hollywood wannabe star, Eve Downey Jr.
Disgusted with getting paid pennies as a Dorothy impersonator, she runs away from her dominating mother and pet pig and crosses paths with zany characters while auditioning for a movie role.
Druckman’s acting career began with the Fountain Hills Theater and Youth Theater, where she performed in, produced and wrote plays.
She graduated from Fountain Hills High School in 2005 and studied at Arizona State University before attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
