Okay, so we’re a Brooklyn-based comedy production company founded by two queer autistic women and we are committed to dismantling the patriarchy one zinger at a time.

In a culture where the stories of women, queer persons, and the neurodivergent are actively neglected, it is often up to the unheard to make room for themselves at the table.

so we did.

THE SOCIETY

FOR

PARANORMAL HEALING

COMEDY SHORT // RELEASED MAY 2022

PRODUCED BY DINOSAURS V ROBOTS (IN CONJUNCTION WITH WHAT STUDIOS).

FILMING TOOK PLACE MARCH 2022.

The film won Best Picture at the Austin Comedy Film Festival, Best Long-form Short Film winner at the Los Angeles Comedy Film and Screenplay Festival, and was an Official Selection at NY Shorts and FilmHaus.

THE SCREENPLAY WAS A QUARTER-FINALIST IN THE SCREENCRAFT SPRING 2022 FILM FUND, A KICKSTARTER "PROJECT WE LOVE,” AND PLACED #12 ON THE REDLIST FOR SHORT FILMS.

WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY LORI CHANDLER

PRODUCED BY LORI CHANDLER, ALEX COTTLE,

JUSTIN PATRICOLO, LAURA HAAS

STARRING CAMILLE THEOBALD, MOLLY DENSMORE,

JULIE TRAN, NICK MESTAD, JOSEPH LYMOUS,

TIM DOWD

accolades:

2024

Finalist, RespectAbility Entertainment Labs Fellowship, Alex Cottle

Semi-Finalist, Outstanding Screenplay Competition, Max & Imogen (written by Chandler and Cottle)

Second-Rounder, Austin Film Festival, Alex Cottle

2023

Quarter-Finalist, Final Draft Big Break, Alex Cottle

Quarter-Finalist, ScreenCraft Animation Competition, Alex Cottle

Quarter-Finalist, ScreenCraft Comedy Competition, Lori Chandler

Official Selection, FilmHaus, The Society for Paranormal Healing

2022

Best Picture, Austin Comedy Film Festival, The Society for Paranormal Healing

Best Long-Form Short, Comedy Feedback Film Festival, The Society for Paranormal Healing

Official Selection, New York Shorts International Festival, The Society for Paranormal Healing

Quarter-Finalist, ScreenCraft Film Fund, Lori Chandler

Quarter-Finalist Shore Scripts Film Fund, Lori Chandler

LORI CHANDLER

[she/her]

If you’re like me, your name is Lori Chandler, and you are a writer/filmmaker. And if you are me, well, you have a little production company you like to call Dinosaurs v. Robots Films LLC. Now that we’ve settled that, here’s the skinny on me in the professional sense:

For the screen, I wrote and directed the comedy short The Society for Paranormal Healing, which won Best Picture at the Austin Comedy Film Festival, won Best Long-form Short Film at the Los Angeles Comedy Film and Screenplay Festival, and was an Official Selection at NY Shorts and FilmHaus. It premiered at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective and had its West Coast premiere at the Pack Theater. The script was a quarter-finalist in the Screencraft Film Fund, a top 10 on Coverfly’s Redlist.

My experimental short, brain medicine, is in “submitting to festivals” mode.

I wrote a pilot called Adult Baby Genius, which is in “submitting to labs” mode.

On the stage, I wrote + directed the shows I Just Have a Lot of Feelings (Pack Theater) Britney and Kevin Go Back to the Future (Annoyance Theater NY) What Becomes a Legend Most? (Annoyance Theater NY) and Ironoclast (The Queens Secret Theater). I also wrote for The New York Times, Big Think, and CollegeHumor, I suppose because I am very fancy.

ALEX COTTLE

[she/her]

Alex Cottle is a producer with experience in television, film, podcasting, and theatre. Most recently she executive produced The Society for Paranormal Healing and Driver’s Seat, a one woman show that premiered at Frigid Festival NYC and earned an Audience Choice Award and a Queerly award from Frigid’s sister festival. She has a degree in film studies and creative writing from Seattle University, and an MBA from UCLA specializing in entertainment. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their cat Si, who is the well established queen of the household.

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