the BEAR and the PEOPLE– documentary feature, in production

Producer/Director: LeAnn Erickson

Tagline- She believes in the Bear.  And the People believe in her.

Logline- In September 2024 Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina, leaving behind a path of physical destruction and personal trauma. One woman is using the healing force of art to help rebuild her community, and her world, one bicycle tire at a time.

Description- ​​​​​​​​In 2023 Marcia K Moore left the northwest, and a successful career as a forensic artist, for the woods of North Carolina in hopes of developing a new artistic practice that would create a stronger connection between her work and the environment.  Using recycled bike tires as her medium, Moore began creating sculptures of animals and mythical forest creatures.

When Hurricane Helene hit in September 2024, it damaged her studio but devastated the local community. As a healing gesture Moore is rallying her friends, fellow artists and townspeople, to join her on a valiant quest-  to create a 7’ bike tire statue of Grizzly 399 (a beloved Yellowstone Park bear killed in 2024). The Bear will be a restorative gift, to whom, Marcia doesn’t yet know. But she believes the Bear will reveal its final destination to her.  And the people who have collected around her believe in her vision.​​​

The BEAR and the PEOPLE will follow Moore and her collective through the building of the Bear, the road trip to a destination as yet, unknown, and the final dedication of her gift statue. This endeavor is both a physical task and an emotional journey, as Moore and her people turn to art as their healing process.

Top Secret Rosies – one hour dramatic Television Series pitch

It’s the spring of 1944 and Jewish sisters Dee and Addie Kohl are deeply involved in the war effort.  Grace Newsom, an African-American math teacher from Harlem has just arrived at the Kohl’s Philadelphia boarding house with her five year old son Zeke in tow, followed shortly by Iowa farm girl Brita Yager. This unlikely foursome has only one thing in common- their mathematical ability. While Rosie the Riveter uses her brawn to build bombs, the US Army is using the brainpower of these Top Secret Rosies to make them deadly accurate. Together these women will discover opportunity, unity- and even love- amid the chaos of a world at war.

Top Secret Rosies, a one hour dramatic television series, is a fictionalized retelling for the little known, true story of the women and technology that helped win WWII and usher in the modern computer age.

Available materials include: Pilot script, Pitch Deck, Series Bible