POST UPDATE: March 4, 2024
S+AGES has been chosen to screen during the AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN CINEMA Festival March 21-23, 2024. Producing Team: Charlese Hawkins-Hatton (PrimeActMedia) Annette Burgess & Naomi Fota (GurlcoMedia)
POST UPDATE: September 5, 2022
Black Women’s Arts Festival (free event) will screen the pilot episode of S+ages: The Web Series @stagesthewebseries on Sunday, Sept 17 @ 2:30pm.
Venue: The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street (University City)
POST UPDATE: 9/18/23
The Producing Team: Charlese Hawkins-Hatton, Annette Burgess & Naomi Fota (All members of SIFT) screened the pilot episode of their webseries S+AGES on Sept 17, 2023 in Philly as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival. This post screening Q& A also includes some of the show’s cast. S+ages: The Web Series follows the lives of three women over age 40, whose lives are touched by HIV. The friendship between Celestia, Victoria, and Miriam deepens as they get real about life’s ups and downs and what is truly important in their lives – love, laughter, and sisterhood.
WATCH AN EARLIER VERSION OF THE PILOT EPISODE on PRIMEACT MEDIA HERE
Some cast members have changed and a number of scenes but it gives an idea where they started.
POST UPDATE: December 2022
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ORIGINAL POST: September 2022
SIFTER Charlese Hawkins-Hatton produced the pilot for STAGES in 2019 and won the “Inclusion Award” at the Cammy Awards – an awards show created and produced by PhillyCAM. This exposure expanded her team to include producers Annette Burgess and Naomi Fota (Gurlco Media) the 3 have worked on the piece over the last two years and now are ready to start shooting S+ages: The Web Series (5 parts).
S+ages: The Web Series follows the lives of three women over age 40, whose lives are touched by HIV. The friendship between Celestia, Victoria, and Miriam deepens as they get real about life’s ups and downs and what is truly important in their lives – love, laughter, and sisterhood.
The concept for the show is based upon personal accounts from Black women with HIV and their desire to live authentically beyond the diagnosis. In 2019, the CDC reported that Black women continue to be disproportionately impacted by HIV, accounting for nearly 60% of new HIV infections in US women, despite only making up less than 15% of the female population.
S+ages: The Web Series tackles stigmas and ignorance that remain prevalent in our communities, and brings a message of hope. A positive diagnosis should not prevent anyone from living their life out loud.
INTERESTED IN BEING CAST OR CREW ON STAGES?
Shooting Dates: December – January 2023
(two weeks off between Christmas & New Years)
Location: around the Philadelphia area
(Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Delaware counties).
NOTE: THIS IS A LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION FILMING FRIDAY EVENINGS THROUGH SUNDAY.
This is a paid job for:
We welcome voluntary production assistants if you want to gain experience.
If you are hyped to work with us on this special project, please submit your resume and/or reels to stagesthewebseries@gmail.com.
More about the origins of STAGES and PRIME ACT MEDIA Click HERE
More about Founder/Producer CHARLESE HAWKINS-HATTON Click HERE