Amidst holiday chaos, Gaby and Fitz embark on a road trip to a spiritualist commune to confront Gaby's estranged Aunt Tibby, leading to family revelations, spiritual meltdowns awakenings, and unexpected bonding.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Little Gaby/Gaby: Val Cole
FItz: Steve Rizzo

Get to know the writers:

1. What is your screenplay about? Truth Falls is a holiday film about a family secret slowly and hilariously coming to light during the most wonderful time of the year. When Gaby loses her parents in an accident, she learns that her new-age, enlightened Aunt Tibby has been made the executor of her estate. Gaby and her best friend Fitz are forced to leave their swanky Chicago lifestyle for a spiritualist camp, Truth Falls, in Oklahoma to confront Tibby and demand her inheritance.Gaby gets more than she bargained for when she learns there's way more to her family story than she was told. Like, WAY more... We learn that Tibby is Gaby's birth mother. This secret has been buried for decades. This is a Film about what happens when a family secret slowly, painfully, and hilariously comes to light causing spiritual meltdowns and epic holiday awakenings.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Christmas Comedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? We wanted to write a movie that dug into what the holidays are really about - Family DRAMA. All great stories are about family. The inspiration for Truth Falls was to have a comedy that stems from your deepest secrets and wounds because those are the best stories people can see themselves in. We love a frothy, fun holiday movie and we thought - hey let's do both. It can be fun, sad, tragic, and hilarious. Most holiday movies don't look anything like what people experience. We all have family secrets - what better time to unwrap them than at Christmas? Truth Falls is an anti Hallmark Movie.

4. How would you describe this script in two words? Christmas Parody

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life? Jamie: Love Actually. Cristen - The Family Stone

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay? Two Years

7. How many stories have you written? Coppen has written three scripts and Jamie has written dozens. This is our first script together. Boy was it fun!

8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)

Cristen: So many to choose from. In the spirit of Christmas - The Carpenters Christmas LP - specifically Merry Christmas Darling.

Jamie: I'm an Indie Rock kinda gal - so on them for me would be I was thinking I Could Clean up for Christmas by Aimmee Mann

9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay? Cutting funny scenes we love that just don't serve the story. So hard. Everytime.

10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about? Travel, Film, Philanthropy, and family!

11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site? Easy, but some of the contests promise feedback and don't really deliver much.

12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received? It focused on comedy and we were looking to get as many eyes on this as possible. Your friends and colleagues can only read it so many times! We were really excited about the feedback. They did a great job breaking down the story and offering notes and insight.