Friends Not Food

Director: Peter Stray
Prime Time Pilot
Comedy | USA | 26 min

Once Upon A FaceTime…

Rachel, a Manhattan spin strategist just two cats shy of becoming a cautionary meme, inherits a failing farm sanctuary in Florida thanks to her half-brother’s catastrophic poker face.
Her plan? Get the place stable, hand it back, and return to civilization.
But the sanctuary’s a fever dream in overalls: fences lean, permits have lapsed, cash is thin, and the staff’s communication styles range from spiritual to sarcastic.
Rachel uses her city instincts to wrangle inspectors and MacGyver funding. She tries to boost visibility and support with a scrappy local ad that catapults the sanctuary into the kind of chaos you can’t buy or return.
And just like that, the woman who once penned press releases about oat milk is suddenly milking meaning –
for the misfits, for the mission, and, inconveniently, for herself.

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