Control Freak | Short Film (NYU ACCEPTED 2021)

Thank you to everyone who helped! I have been accepted into the class of 2025 at NYU Tisch to study film!
Control Freak tells the story of an outcast teenage boy, Jacob, with severe anxiety who finds himself imagining a negative outcome that might occur if he decides to ask his crush to prom. The film focuses on ‘glitches’ in his created mental reality in which copies of his peers reside. The surroundings and circumstances of these imagined characters are determined by the things Jacob sees in his therapist's office.
Executive Produced, Edited, Co-Written, and Co-Directed by Gabi Zinman
Co-Directed by Katie Weis
Co-Written by Carter McDermott
Production Managed and Produced by Claire Cohen
Shot by and Executive Produced Ben Senior, Robbie Petrie, with help from Gabi Zinman
Sound Designed by Owen May with help from Gabi Zinman
(This was also accepted at SCAD, University of Iowa, MSU, and University of Hartford. Applied Early Decision to NYU.)
(This screenplay was also included in Co-Writer Carter McDermott’s accepted Kenyon College application!)