When Naperville native and burgeoning film screenwriter Mary Jane Deer’s screenplay proved too expensive to produce as it would require flying a cast and crew to the Caribbean, her mother encouraged her to write a different story.

Consider something that could be a low-budget indie film, her mother said, something that could be shot in one location.

“She literally wrote (her second effort) in a month and then her bosses (at Journeywork Entertainment) read it and said, ‘This is amazing,’ and they need a table read,” said Ann Deer, who also works in the film industry.

Now, the 23-year-old’s mockumentary screenplay is being made into a full-length movie that’s being shot in her hometown and directed by John Mossman, cofounder of The Artistic Home in Chicago and director of 2022’s “Good Guy

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