A straightforward, woman-owned production company keeping things simple. We are PWM Films, and we're simply making movies with the people we love to make them with.
From shorts to features, and whatever else in between, let's make something.
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Holiday Holdup
When a group of restaurant workers get fired, they decide to take revenge on their terrible boss during his annual high-stakes poker game. Chips fly as the tomfoolery unfolds.
From Nicely/Darkly Entertain + The Line Film Co.
Oxy Morons
After failing to smuggle drugs in a homemade submarine, Wayne has to evade violent kingpins, get the girl, and pretend to do his corporate job while orchestrating a huge pharmaceutical scandal.
From Kernel Productions + The Line Film Co.
Happily Never After
Laura gets more than she bargained for when she wins a dream wedding from celebrity wedding planner, Faith. A love triangle turns vicious when Laura's fiancé, Pete, can't shake Faith.
A Lifetime Original Movie from Mar Vista Entertainment
Only By Blood
Feature Film - If Home Alone and Goodbye Earl were a modern family disagreement.
Tracy and her brother Dylan come to blows when she helps his wife, Chrystal, flee the state with their daughter after a bad fight. Blood gets drawn, a garage blows up, and there's a hermit on the property to consider in a snarky 90-page action film.
Little kids little problems - big kids, big problems.
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Scripts ready to be produced - Get in touch to collaborate
ONLY BY BLOOD
Action-Packed Family Feud
Tracy and her brother Dylan come to blows when she helps his wife, Chrystal, flee the state with their daughter after a bad fight. Blood gets drawn, a garage blows up, and there's a hermit on the property to consider in a snarky 90-page action film.
Little kids little problems - big kids, big problems.
Feature Film - If Home Alone and Goodbye Earl were a modern family disagreement.
Y'all related?
...Only by Blood.
CALL ME DADDY
Queer Rom-Com
Sophie leaves the city for a tiny college town to care for her extremely pregnant best friend. Between birthing classes and decorating the nursery, Sophie accidentally falls in love with someone new.
If Knocked-Up and Bridesmaids was about Midwestern queer gals.
Birth's a mother. Call someone man enough for the job.
HOSTING
Thanksgiving Family Comedy
The Black Family's younger generation is hosting for the first time, and with zero idea how hard hosting can be, things unravel quickly. A film with a young girlfriend, a frozen bird, and an HOA president that's ready to call the cops, this family comedy isn't a snack - it's the whole meal.
Family Stone meets Christmas Vacation at Thanksgiving
Call the fire brigade.
CURTAINS
Family Dramady
Liz came home to find her Uncle Larry selling the community theater gives her six weeks to produce a show, crush school crushes, and direct him - who's demanding to play Lady Macbeth.
If Little Miss Sunshine and The Birdcage made out.
I'm a grown man - I can wipe my own ass!
the BACKUP PLAN
Thanksgiving RomCom
Grace can't wait to visit her sister at her new house and spoil her niece rotten after the divorce. She didn't expect to meet a dreamy architect at her niece's dance recital while she was there, and she definitely didn't plan to lie that her niece was her daughter.
A twisty turny rom-com filled with Thanksgiving shenanigans and a side of romance.
The First 75
Indie Pilot • Limited Series
Four couples who want to buy in the same area hit the jackpot with a four-home cculdesac. The only problem is the original owner of lot one purchased all four, and she's only selling three.
A limited series that laughs through the brutality of becoming parents, professionals, and village for each other while trying to force an old lady to sell her house or kill her...whichever comes first.
If Killing Eve met This is Us
SCRIPTS READY TO WORK. GET IN TOUCH TO OPTION.
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PWM Films is the narrative production company of filmmaker Sarah Cayce. All the projects on this site are produced, written, or directed by Sarah with the help of some of her favorite filmmakers.
Get in touch for collaborations with lots of laughs along the way.
Address
2424 W Montrose Ave
CHI, IL 60618
By Appointment Only
Phone
312.339.5198