Francesca Mirabella
BOMB
NICE SHOES Post production (color) Grant
About the project: BOMB tells the story of two friends Cash and Dallas. We meet them at the end of summer, in the twilight of their friendship. Having grown up together in the same small, depressed area, Cash, a poet and writer, wants to leave and make something of themselves. Dallas, has no ambition, and no way out. Things take a turn when they discover an undetonated Bomb from the Boer War-- their friendship and who they are will never be the same. (If someone could prove it!)
About the filmmaker: Francesca Mirabella is a writer, director, and native New Yorker. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts graduate department where she was a Dean’s Fellow. While at Tisch, she won The Wasserman Fox Award for Best Screenplay and was singularly nominated out of her class for a Princess Grace Award. Mirabella was a 2017-2018 Marcie Bloom Fellow. She received a 2018 Tribeca All Access Grant and won the 2019 Atlanta Film Festival screenwriting competition, as well as being a finalist at 2020 New Orleans Film Festival screenwriting competition for her feature script Modern Love. In addition to her solo work, Mirabella, along with Kylah Benes-Trapp, make up the creative duo SILK BLADE. SILKBLADE was accepted into the 2018 Through Her Lens Tribeca/Chanel Program, as well as Refinery29/Kate Spade’s Pilot Program for their series “Heather.” Mirabella has made work for The Rockefeller Foundation, Cultured Magazine, Fox Sports, The Hearst Company, Verizon, Topic, and Kate Spade + Refinery 29. Her work has screened at various festivals and at MOMA. Mirabella along with Romeo co-founded The Magic Hour, a screening series and film production company, focused on making inclusivity the norm and not the exception in film.