Arts & Entertainment

LFHS Grad Raising Money for Film Set in Lake Forest

Lain Kienzle hopes to film her NYU senior thesis in Lake Forest this summer. She has a few days left in a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money.

Lake Forest High School alum Lain Kienzle is planning to film her New York University senior thesis film project in her hometown this summer and is raising money through a Kickstarter campaign in order to do so.

On Monday afternoon, with four days left to go, the Kickstarter campaign had raised $5,160 of the $7,000 needed to fund the filming of Kienzle’s film, “The Nappers.”

While many services are being donated locally, such as lodging and “Lain’s Mom’s delicious waffles for breakfast,” and some of the cast and crew are fellow LFHS alum, the money will go toward flying others in the cast and crew to Lake Forest, equipment rentals and, because “The Nappers” involves a stolen alligator, paying for the alligator talent, according to the Kickstarter page.

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“The Nappers” is, according to the Kickstarter page, “the first bromantic comedy about two childhood friends who try to repair their friendship and steal an alligator at the same time.”

Kienzle says that growing up in Lake Forest heavily influenced her film.

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“For me, The Nappers is really about love and the need for balance. Growing up in an affluent community definitely had its perks, but it can also put a lot of pressure on the kids growing up there,” she writes on the Kickstarter page. “When kids face so much pressure to achieve, bad things happen. And ultimately, kids fall into one of two groups: the Scott group or the Robbie group. The Scott group underachieves and gets in trouble. The Robbie group places even more pressure on themselves to be the perfect kids who go to an ivy league school and become doctors or lawyers because they're not allowed to fail.”

Kienzle, a 2010 LFHS grad, talked with Gazebo News about the project, which you can read here..


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