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Saratoga-born filmmaker Angela Sheil’s debut short film, The DoubleWalker, is a visually-arresting psychological thriller that serves as a profound testament to the power of artistic vulnerability. completed the first draft of the script. In the years that followed, she continued to refine the script, and returned to the Capital Region from the west coast. After arriving in Troy in 2016, Sheil connected with the Collar City–based film production The film tells the story of a grief-stricken young woman company Chromoscope Pictures. She has since collaborated named Grace, who returns to her childhood home only to with them on a number of music videos, for which she has discover that she may have inherited a sinister family curse. served as an actor, producer, gaffer and director. During

Sheil found the inspiration for the film COVID-19, Sheil emptied out her savings to during a stressful semester at Academy bring the script of The DoubleWalker to life, of Art University in San Francisco. “One assembling a talented cast and crew from evening, I dreamt of a world in which New York City, Los Angeles, Portland, ME, everyone had a clone,” she says. “Each and the Capital Region. The DoubleWalker clone was hunting for their ‘original’ and was shot in September 2021 in Sedgwick, intending to kill them and take their place. ME, on protected land surrounding the only I woke up sweating, grabbed a pen and warm-water cove on the state’s coast. scrap paper off my nightstand, and the After filming for The DoubleWalker dream exploded onto the back of a utility was complete, Sheil started a fundraising bill. I knew instantly that the dream was a campaign to ensure that all financial ‘death-of-self’ message. I needed to shed requirements for post-production were the person I was and start taking care of met. As the filmmaker looks forward to the woman I wanted to become. Part of that premiering The DoubleWalker in May, she’s transformation involved manifesting that excited to share her creative vision with the message onto film.” world. “The further I go down my path as

Just two days after the dream, Sheil a filmmaker, the more I realize what’s most important to me is vulnerability,” she says. “Transforming the joy and pain of what it is to be human and what it means to be vulnerable—that’s the kind of filmmaking I am interested in.”

The DoubleWalker

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Angela Sheil returned to the Capital Region from the west coast in 2016; (top) Sheil’s ANGELA SHEIL short film was shot in Sedgwick, ME, in RELEASE DATE: MAY 2022 September 2021.