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Prepare to be captivated by 'Glitch in the System', a ground breaking, multi-week narrative series carefully crafted from "found footage" social media posts.

Glitch is a chilling psychological thriller where our characters, each confronting their own profound mental health challenges, become terrifyingly entangled with an enigmatic, water spirit that seeps into their shared reality.

As the weeks unfold, the psychological tension intensifies, the supernatural manifestations grow, and the narrative deepens into a collective confrontation, exploring how ideas themselves can fragment and haunt.

Get ready for an immersive and thought-provoking experience that promises to blur the lines between reality and the supernatural, keeping you on the edge of your seat for 6 weeks.

Meet the Team

Miriam, an intern and installation artist and writer from Lancaster, UK, who portrays a polished presenter battling PTSD. Chris, our Managing and Creative Director from Dorset, UK, embodies the chaotic yet charming pitchman unravelling with ADHD. David, an actor and producer from Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK, transforms into the urban explorer with anxiety whose outings become increasingly haunted by unseen forces. Shannon, an actor from New York, USA, capturing the essence of the social media perfectionist whose carefully curated reality shatters under the weight of a personality disorder. And Ryan an actor from Halifax becomes Echo, a writer who's childhood dolls are a bridge to the spirit world, struggling to find a new way to write while their reality blurs with schizophrenia.

Behind the cameras, Cheryl Anne, a writer and production assistant from Virginia, USA, and Jesse, an actor, improviser, artist, animator, composer, and stand-up comedian from Phoenix, USA, who doubles as our editor and one of our SFX artists, working together to craft the unsettling atmosphere that will define Glitch and make it stick in your mind forever.

All accompanied by a global digital ensemble cast of background characters, to build out the world and deepen the experience.

Stories Like Never Before

This carefully planned experience will be delivered through Scenes, our prototype digital theatre app.

More than just a social platform, Scenes changes story telling forever, by presenting narratives through bite-sized 'scenes' from distinct character accounts in a social style feed that you, the viewer, can interact with.

This creates an intimate, real-time, and deeply immersive experience, allowing you to follow the story as it unfolds, as if you're watching events through the characters' own eyes in real time.

Scenes is designed to create a brand new format of storytelling, offering a unique and engaging way to consume compelling long-form narratives in this information rich age.

And don't worry, Scenes is a privacy focussed ethically driven platform and we won't be doing anything with your data.

Be Part of the Future of Storytelling

Your contribution to this campaign is absolutely vital. As a prototype, 'Scenes' is currently a very basic looking proof of concept, with all the complex capability built in but some of the features missing and much of the design still to come.

We are starting now, small, with you; and planning to continuously evolve as the community grows. Your support directly fuels this human-centred development approach. It will help us to;

>> continue paying our incredible young creators,

>> expand our growing library of digital costumes, sets, and accessibility features,

>> create new performances,

>> help others create their performances on the app,

>> develop more app features.

And, ultimately, your donation will accelerate our journey towards a full public launch.

We envision a future where anyone, anywhere, can tell and experience stories that celebrate diversity, empathy, and connection, free from secretive commissioning models, algorithmic noise, unethical advertising, and data exploitation.

Ways to Support Us

This is a truly community-led idea, and we want you to be an active part of our growing family! So please come along to our Discord Chat, where we will keep you up to date on progress and seek your guidance as we go forward. Your feedback will help us shape the future of Scenes and this new era of social storytelling.

We'd also appreciate a share! Why not eh? Go on....

'Glitch in the System' is just the start; we're already developing exciting new productions for this new format, including a laugh-out-loud comedy, a gripping drama, and a high concept mind-bending sci-fi, with many more ambitious projects on the horizon too.

So we'd love you to join us in anyway you can on this adventure, and help us build a world where shared, inclusive narratives don't just entertain, but truly help us all thrive together.

We hope you'll come and watch 'Glitch in the System' on Scenes. If you can help us out with a little bit of funding by donating here, that would be awesomely super great too. And please do come along to our Discord Chat to keep up to date.