WHIRLED PEAS PRODUCTIONS LLC. 

ABOUT THE FILM

The Screen Play was written by Erica Livingstone, a native San Diegian. The writing process began in March of 2004 and was finished in December of 2007.

The script was written like a fictional diary; little things taken from the daily life, and experiences of the writer, hidden in the complicated lifestyles of its characters. Specific characters sprouting from acquaintances and are a mixture of the people who have walked in and out of one’s human experience. These characters reflect the truths and the ideas of a real life, and one that is fictional to create something new that speaks to everyone from one angle, or another. The message of how decisions you make can change your life, echo the life lessons the writer has learned from her own experience, and the experience she received from her characters. “My characters are like my children. I create them, I name them, and I give them a home; the rest they tell me.” There are many choices that were made in the writing that today’s society is uncomfortable with. Such as homosexuality, eating disorders, underage sex and drinking, but these are all things that are a part of our society, and the less in the dark they are, the more they are understood. Friends, or people who are close to everyone, suffer from something, it may be as common as low self-esteem or as serious as drug addiction, or an abusive relationship. They suffer from these things not because they are bad people, but because their individual lives have lead them to this road. A child who is beaten will learn to find affection in abuse. Someone who was left by someone they loved, will always fear abandonment and relationships will suffer. These differences, these challenges, are all the  things that make all people unique, and is what makes this film stand out on the shelf.

“The script is a story put together from five years of one person’s life, now it will become a movie, a jigsaw puzzle of new experiences, and new lives brought in, and I couldn’t be more excited. It isn’t the screenplay that makes Relevé live up to its name. It’s the feeling I get when my words and the words of my characters come to life through the actors.

Not till then do we really understand what it means "To Rise.’”