A casual visit turns chaotic when two best friends dabble in a witchy book—and accidentally unleash a magical mess.
Written, shot and edited for the 2025 Guerilla Filmmaking Challenge New Years Edition, Southern Utah’s (FMASU).
Required Elements
Category: Make a Film in a Single Contained Location
Line of Dialogue: “I love to dance.”
Directed by Laura Schmitt and Lance Murphy
Director of Photography, Lance Murphy
Screenplay by Lance Murphy and Laura Schmitt
Starring Laura Schmitt, Jessica Staples, and Emma Schmitt
Assistant Director, Madison Johnson, aka “MJ”
Steadicam Operator, Rey Reyes
Assistant Camera/Operator, Jason Brain
Assistant Camera/Dolly Grip, Chandler “Utah” Tisherman
Location Sound, Keith Owen
Gaffer, Braxton Castellano
Score by Jacob Shaw
Script Supervisor, Madison Johnson, aka “MJ”
Production Assistant, Emma Schmitt
SPECIAL GUEST
Rey Reyes with the Steadicam Operators Association
www.steadicam-ops.com
SPECIAL THANKS to Free Will Healing, Austin Schadewald, Ryan Gibb, Jason Brain, Ryan Little
for providing locations, gear, time, and instruction. Team Schmurphy could not do this without support from our filmmaking community!
Runtime: approx. 6 min.
Premiered March 15th, 2025
Guerilla Shorts Showcase: 2025 New Year Edition at The Electric Theater in St George, Utah.
