Project Description

Looking at societal obsession with celebrity culture, Scene House is set in a dystopian future where actors inhabit an enclosed area called The Scene House – an unsettling hybrid of a theme park and museum. Here, observers pay to enter and, for an additional cost, interact with the actors. One of these Actors begins to question their existence in The Scene House as the boundaries blur between performance and reality.

In a dystopian future, Actors inhabit an enclosed area called The Scene House. The Scene House serves as a unique hybrid of a theme park and a museum, providing Actors with the freedom to move about as they please. Actors are nurtured within the confines of The Scene House, making the environment entirely commonplace for them, akin to how animals adapt to a zoo.

Nevertheless, Observers - individuals who purchase tickets to The Scene House - are permitted to take photographs and even engage with the Actors. At any given moment, an Observer can intrude upon an Actor's daily routine to engage with them in a variety of roles, whether it's reenacting a scene from a favorite film, practicing quitting their job, or offering an apology to a loved one who has passed away. 

The Scene House remains shrouded in mystery until the film's conclusion, concealing the true nature of the Actors, their origins, and how they came to be in this enigmatic place. 

Written and Directed by Annabella Fazio

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Collaborators

  • Annabella Fazio

    WRITER / DIRECTOR

    Annabella Fazio is an emerging writer and director. As an avid traveler who has lived on multiple continents, Annabella is focused on elevating the modern experience of women and AFAB people all over the world and dreams of starting a documentary production company. She has co-written and starred in Kaleidoscope premiering at Cannes Court Metrage 2021. Other films she’s worked on have premiered at Oscar Qualifying festivals such as Hollyshorts and Catalina Film Festival. Her first narrative feature film, Camino, is currently in development.

  • Lia Lee

    PRODUCER

    Lia Lee is a Korean American SAG-AFTRA actor and producer currently pursuing her MA in Creative Business at the National Film and Television School. She also holds an MA in Film Studies from University College London and, for the last eleven years, has split her time between the US and the UK. In addition to her studies, she works at the Ink Factory, one of the UK’s most formidable independent production studios. Driven by the pursuit of supporting talent and creating infrastructures in order to foster creativity, Lia is thrilled to be settling back in the UK where she can utilize her prior education, diverse work experiences, and International outlook to create great cinema.

  • Sarah Carter

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Sarah Carter is the CEO of Cheshire Moon Productions. Originally a framework to facilitate her own creative projects, Sarah’s joy and pure intention as a producer is magnetic. The company has expanded to collaborate with similarly free-spirited producers and artists with several projects in development for 2024, including Scene House with Annabella Fazio.

    Her first feature-length producorial film, A Pity, is making the rounds internationally at film festivals now. Her debut directorial feature, In Her Name, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022, winning an Audience Award. The film is available to stream now on Apple TV+, Prime Video, Kanopy, Google Play, and Fandango, with a Limited Edition Blu-Ray featuring a BTS documentary available exclusively on Amazon.

  • Ali Helnwein

    COMPOSER

    Ali Helnwein is an absolute genius. Ali has had a robust career as an LA-based composer who has worked on multiple Emmy and Grammy winning projects. Films he's scored have gone to festivals ranging from Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF, and more, including projects for Netflix, HBO and other platforms. In his earlier days he founded the Traction Avenue Chamber Orchestra, which become known for showing up in places where one normally wouldn’t expect an orchestra, performing in places such as a skatepark, a Chinatown Alley, the rooftop of the Standard, etc. Aside from his own orchestra, he has worked with many other orchestras across the U.S. and around the World.

  • Ravi Doubleday

    CINEMATOGRAPHER

    Based in North London, Ravi is a recent graduate of Amazon’s inaugural Prime Craft Academy, and is currently working toward his masters in cinematography at the prestigious National Film and Television School. Ravi is an emerging DoP who has shot a variety of narrative and commercial work. The most significant of these is Ravi’s first narrative feature, Inland, which stars Mark Rylance (Dunkirk, Bones and All) and Kathrine Hunter (Tragedy of Macbeth). The film, which premiered at BFI London Film Festival in October 2022, was long listed for eleven British Independent Film Awards and had its UK theatrical release with Vue and Picturehouse. It is set for a theatrical release in the US this autumn. Ravi is currently in development on his second feature with Inland director, Fridtjof Ryder.