The Cutting Room Floor
VICTORIA DEMARTIN
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LOGLINE
Kate is an aspiring young film editor who finally catches her big break editing a “Notebook” level feature film. With her job, engagement and sanity on the line, can she pull it off under the deadline or will she lose it all?
SYNOPSIS
Kate is an assistant editor working on a Hollywood romance film. When she is unexpectedly promoted to lead editor, she finds herself editing her first feature under an impossibly tight deadline. As Kate steps up to this huge undertaking, her personal life falls to pieces. She is faced with the choice between her relationship and her career. She chooses her career. As she edits the film, the romantic footage triggers intense memories, replaying them in flashbacks that become muddled with the movie’s footage. Under the pressure of the Director and Producers conflicting notes, sleep deprivation and heartbreak, Kate's struggles to hold onto what is reality and what is fiction.
LOOKBOOK
Victoria deMartin. Writer & Director
Victoria deMartin is a NYC-based writer/director. She has written and directed five short films and recently directed her sixth. Each of her films have screened at festivals nationwide, most recently screening at Austin Film Festival in 2021. Her historical short film, “Winter Rye '' aired on PBS-KVCR and won best short period piece at The Garden State Film Festival. Her pilot script “En Tournant” has garnered attention from the Sundance Episodic Lab, The New York TV Festival, BluCat Screenplay Competition, Launch Pad Pilot Competition, Script Pipeline, JHRTS Script Competition (winner, pilot category), Golden Script Competition (winner, pilot category) and one of four High Scribe finalists at the Sun Valley Film Festival in 2021. Most recently, Victoria was invited to attend the Stowe Story Labs Narrative Lab in August 2022 and her second pilot, "Hook", is now a semi-finalist at Cinequest. Victoria is also a pre-professionally trained ballerina and has been dancing for 25 years now. "The Cutting Room Floor" is her first feature film as writer/director. Learn more about the project here: https://www.cuttingroomfloorfilm.com/.
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