SHAKEDOWN: THE TRIAL

THE NEXT CHAPTER OF SHAKEDOWN

More than twenty years after filming began—and fifteen years after the project’s first Kickstarter—SHAKEDOWN is returning in a new form.

SHAKEDOWN: THE TRIAL is a narrative feature built from the world, people, performances, and unresolved questions at the center of the documentary.

Jazmyne has been arrested.

What follows is a trial—but the courtroom is also a theater. Everyone has a role to play. Evidence becomes performance. Judgment becomes entertainment. The law attempts to decide what happened, what it means, and whose version of the story will become official.

Conceived as a courtroom comedy, SHAKEDOWN: THE TRIAL uses farce to examine serious forces: sex, money, policing, obscenity, power, freedom, and the ownership of an image.

The film asks what happens when a world that created its own values is required to defend itself inside somebody else’s system.

Who is permitted to perform?

Who is permitted to profit?

Who gets called an artist, a worker, a criminal, a witness, or a star?

And who controls the story after the night is over?

THE CAMPAIGN

TEXARKANA is raising development support for SHAKEDOWN: THE TRIAL.

The campaign supports:

• Writing and story development

• Casting and rehearsal

• Visual development

• Collaboration with members of the original Shakedown community

• Archive research

• Legal and business development

• The creative team required to move the feature toward production

This is not a remake of the documentary. It is the next event in the life of SHAKEDOWN.

The documentary recorded a world.

The trial asks what that world means now.

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