At The Orchard Project

1. 2020
   Audio Lab

   Manar/Hotline Eulogies

   LOGLINE: Set in 2014 Bay Ridge Brooklyn, Manar is a crime/thriller audio series that follows NAJLA, a 19-year-old first- generation Syrian-American girl in search of her missing friend, JAMIE – a white boy from her local university. Through a series of recorded voice interviews that she conducts with local members from the neighborhood, Najla drops in on multiple, interconnected lives to uncover breadcrumbs that lead to the truth of Jamie’s disappearance, and in turn, reveal deep-seated prejudices, hypocrisies and secrets. LOGLINE: Set in the summer of 1961 Berlin, Hotline Eulogies is an at-times comedic-drama/thriller that follows an UNNAMED TURKISH WOMAN who works as a switchboard operator in the eastern neighborhood of Kreuzberg during the construction of the Berlin Wall, right before the extinction of switchboard companies. Throughout eight episodes, she receives calls from (1) a man named WERNER, who tries to reach his first wife in the family he left behind in East Berlin, (2) an unhinged local named FRITZ who demands to be connected to President Kennedy, and (3) a mysterious woman named LATIFE, who claims to be our operator’s long-lost mother.

2. 2019
   Episodic Lab

   Manar