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The Skys The Limit 2015 RPRR G SETEE
3. A PURPLE SQUIRREL is a recruitment industry term used to
describe a mythical skill set believed not to exist. When a client
calls and says they need a janitor to work the night shift for
twelve bucks an hour and they also need to have a PHD in physics,
that is a purple squirrel. It is the one thing all recruiters are
searching for. SHORT SYNOPSIS Purple Squirrels is an independent
Canadian series that tracks the trials and tribulations of Alex,
Simon and Natalie, three grads who have gotten their first big
break as Recruiters at a Downtown Toronto staffing agency. Mixing
the coming-of-age-in-the-city dramedy of HBOs Girls with the
corporate satire of Office Space, Purple Squirrels is a half hour
program that aims to set a new bar in Canadian comedy. LONG
SYNOPSIS Purple Squirrels is a half-hour comedy-drama that tracks
the trials and tribulations of Alex, Natalie and Simon, three
recent grads trying to survive in the city as Recruiters at a
Downtown Toronto staffing agency, and make a name for themselves
hustling the most unpredictable commodity on the market: People.
Mixing the coming-of-age-in-the-city dramedy of HBOs Girls and the
corporate satire of Office Space, Purple Squirrels aims to set a
new bar in Canadian comedy. Purple Squirrels aims to act as a voice
for Toronto by telling a distinctly Toronto story in the same
manner Girls tells a distinctly New York story. Toronto is one of
the most culturally and visually diverse cities in the world. By
taking Purple Squirrels onto the streets, audiences will not only
get to experience the hustle and bustle of Torontos Downtown
corporate culture but also explore the back alleys of its bustling
nightlife like never before seen on screen. 2015
4. THE APPLICANTS: ALEX PETERSON Educated and broke, Alex is a
recent Film graduate who has set himself up at global staffing
company RPG in hopes of avoiding eviction. Although his quick wit
and smart-ass charm make him ideal for Recruiting, his
too-smart-for-his-own good attitude and rebellious spirit could
either be the ticket to his success or his undoing. NATALIE WALKER
The cute girl-next-door that your grandmother would want you to
marry. Fresh off a plane from Calgary, Natalie is getting her new
start at RPG. Instantly likable if a bit naive, shes poised for
success in Toronto, but with lose ends still untied back home,
success may come at an embarrassing price. SIMON SMYTH Always eager
to please, Simon is a born conversationalist, even when his gabbing
has alienated everyone in the room. Simon is a simple man with
simple values, but the taste of success in the city could be the
thing that takes the small town out of the small town boy once and
for all. LESTER NIELSEN Alexs former university roommate and
present housemate, Lester throws the best parties, knows the finest
honnies and puffs the best chronic Toronto has to offer. He is
Alexs best friend and biggest headache. MELISSA MANCINI Melissa
enters every room in slow motion. A tough talker with no social
filter, shes the girl that could have any guy but doesnt want any
of them. Bored at work and always looking for ways to amuse
herself, Melissa is the devil on Alexs shoulder. But all the
mascara in the world cant hide the party-girl lifestyle catching up
with her. DOUG MASON RPGs IT Division Manager, Doug is the last to
arrive and first to leave. A thorn in upper managements side, hes
the perfect guy to grab a brew and watch the game with, but when it
comes to setting the example, hes nowhere to be found. PETRA
WINSTON RPGs Iron Lady. A stern, Scottish immigrant who climbed the
corporate ladder before being shipped to whip the Toronto operation
into shape, Petra suffers no fools and doesnt take no for an
answer, even if thats all she ever gets from the people around her.
MARK ANDREWS Top Double-AF biller for the past four months in a
row, Mark is the ideal success story. What does Double-AF stand
for? Accounting & Finance, but by the way he does things, youd
think it meant Awesome as Fuck. With hair perfectly slicked, suit
always pristine and a scuffless BMW, Mark is the model every
Recruiter should strive to follow. OLIVER STEFANOV Petras
right-hand man, RPGs flamboyant Human Resources Manager, and Dougs
office nemesis, Oliver revels in seeing drama unfold and isnt shy
about stepping in to help it along whenever he can. OAK Big scary
black dude. Also Lesters right-hand-man. 2015
5. EPISODE BREAKDOWNS: FIRST DAY/LAST DAY Its Alex, Natalie and
Simons first day at Reconnaissance Personnel Global. While waiting
for their half-an-hour-late boss Doug, they meet their fourth
colleague Sid, whose corporate asshole attitude immediately rubs
Alex the wrong way. Barely on the scene, Doug is informed that
there has been an error with back office claiming he only had
approval to hire three new recruits. To determine who goes home,
Petra sets the team on a race to see who can book the most
in-office interviews by the end of day. Not wanting to leave the
outcome to fate, Alex hatches a plan that will save his friends and
teach Sid a lesson once and for all. INTERVIEW TO A KILL An irate
client threatening to kick RPG off the vendor list leaves Dougs
hands tied. Needing to be taught the interview tricks of the trade,
Melissa takes Alex for a drink over lunch, Natalie is taught the
ways of the Wild West by Mark and Petra offers Simon a lunch date
if he can secure five job leads from his candidate. But unless
someone can secure an elusive Cobal Developer by end of day, it
could be lights out for the entire team. NO SLEEP TIL GUELPH All
breathe a sigh of relief for the weekend. Except Alex. Lester is
throwing a raging party and Alex needs to be in Guelph at exactly
7:00 am to go horseback riding with his uptight girlfriend
Danielle. Knowing he wont get any sleep at home, Alex makes plans
to crash on Simons couch. But the plans go awry when Lester spikes
Simons drink in hopes of helping him overcome his fear of the dance
floor. Mark and Natalie share a casual dinner together before
joining the raging, while Melissas presence indicates that maybe
her ties with Mark run deeper than they appear. THE RASH Monday
morning. Simon is still feeling the effects of Friday night, which
clouds his lunch meeting with Petra. Alex suffers an unbearable
rash due to his allergic reaction to horses. Already scolded for
showing up a minute late for work, Alex doesnt want to excuse
himself to pick up the cream that would ease his itchy burden.
Lester, on the run, is of no help. Simon redeems himself by
building an unlikely relationship with a prospective RPG client.
With Doug out of the office on a family emergency and Mark
unwilling to help, Alex is left on his own to prep Johnny. But he's
more than willing to help Natalie book her first client interview.
THEY TRAIN RECRUITERS DONT THEY? Petra is instantly unimpressed
when she discovers Doug has booked their overnight training session
at a Hare Krishna resort. Olivers keynote speaker doesnt go over
much better. Alex is distraught to find Lester has hitched a ride
and intends to unload a pound of marijuana for Oak before going
home. Natalie expresses her feelings for Alex to some Krishna
girls, who encourage her to tell him. Her plans are thwarted
however, when she discovers Alex has snuck into the night to get
cigarettes with Melissa. Simon gains ground with Petra after saving
her from the unwanted advances of a young Krishna boy. NATAA ATT
LILL E & SIMON 2015
6. EPISODE BREAKDOWNS: OUTSIDE OFFICE HOURS On the hunt for a
killer strain of weed that gave him the high of his life, Lester
enlists Alex and Simon to accompany him in finding the only man in
the city who can get him another hit. But they soon find themselves
on a run for their lives when a drug dealer that Lester owes money
to gives them until the morning to pay up or all suffer the
consequences. STALKER Alex and Simon land their first placements on
the same day. Doug invites the team to celebrate over lunch.
Natalie worries she wont pass probation because she hasnt booked a
client interview. After being reassured by Doug, she uses an
ethically questionable trick Mark taught her. Alex must evade a
stalker who is bothering him for an interview after posting a job
online. Simon is sent on a mission by Petra to find a new candidate
after one of hers gets let go. Lester pretends to be Alex to make
use of his corporate gym membership after the run in with Jackie
leaves him feeling like he needs to get in shape. HOT DOG Alex is
awoken to find the new furry friend Lester has acquired to aid in
his pursuit to pick up chicks. Things get worse when Lester, on the
run from a couple of kids he ripped off, drops the canine at RPGs
front door for Alex to take care of. Natalie offers to keep the dog
out of Petras sight, not realizing she has an afternoon interview
prep. Its Mark to the rescue when he offers to take the puppy to
the park, an offer he quickly regrets. Simon is the latest victim
in a rash of office thefts when the stuffed animal he bought Ashley
goes missing. THE RECRUITING ANGEL 4:30 pm and the IT team is about
to leave when an order comes in from an important client. Doug puts
down the mandate that they need a candidate to submit before end of
day and instructs them all to stay until they find someone. When a
delivery boy shows up with pizza and cant get into the building,
the team discovers that something is mysteriously holding them
against their will. Stir craziness sets in as the team tries to
decide if they should be searching for a candidate or an escape
route. Elsewhere, Melissa has her world turned upside down when her
mother announces her future plans over dinner. DOUBLE DIPPING
Danielle is in town to visit and Alex has planned a double date
with Simon and Ashley. A confrontation with Lester gets the night
off to a rough start. When a mistake in their reservations delays
the group from seeing their movie, Danielle blames Ashley, leading
to tension between the two and leaving Simon to decide whether or
not to say anything. Stood up by her online date, Natalie runs into
Melissa whos out on a personal bender. A couple drinks back at
Melissas condo leads Natalie to reveal the skeletons in the closet
that brought her to Toronto. 2015
7. ALELL X EPISODE BREAKDOWNS: IN TRANSIT Alex is counting on a
placement so that he can afford the expensive necklace Danielle
wants for their anniversary. But after his candidate leaves her
good luck charm at the office, Alex finds himself on the run
through busy Downtown transit in an attempt to reach her before
arriving at her client interview. Lester gives Alex a bag of
drug-laced candy to hold for him, which accidentally gets taken on
a client visit by Melissa. Simon agrees to a lunchtime yoga session
he promised Ashley, which ends in jealously after he spends most of
the time flirting with the instructor. Ecstatic over her first
placement, Natalie agrees to a date with Mark, who admits his
feelings for her. Doug must deal with the passing of his mother.
FINALE Alex announces that Danielle has made the decision to move
to Toronto to live with him. Lester struggles to find a new place
to live, while Simons mixed feelings about Danielle weigh heavily
on his conscience. Shaken by Dougs loss, Natalie calls home in
hopes of putting the past behind her, but not before a candidate
from her past shows up in the interview room. Melissa, done with
her psychiatrist, invites Alex to join her for a psychic reading.
Petra announces her plan to grow the IT Division and introduces a
new business model, which is not well received by Doug. BEHEE INDNN
THTT E SCENES 2015
8. PURPRR LELL MAN MICHHCC AAEELL DIRECTORS NOTE Purple
Squirrels started over a conversation about HBOs Girls. We drank a
little. We smoked a little. And Girls. We talked about how great it
was to see a comedy about what its like to be lost and struggling
to find yourself in the big city, about humour and pathos and about
the struggles of coming of age in the modern era. Then I said it,
Why doesnt Toronto have this? Id worked at several Recruiting
Agencies through the years and knew both the industry and its
people like the back of my hand. Whether it was the manager telling
the new kid to call the CEOs personal assistant and pretend to be
his doctor or the new temp getting caught banging the secretary in
the copy room on his second day of assignment, Id seen and heard it
all. It would be like Office Space set in the industry Id grown up
in. Girls meets Office Space, set in Toronto. Purple Squirrels was
born. The 25-minute pilot episode First Day/Last Day was filmed
over two days in June of 2014, which followed an extensive
marketing campaign and theatrical premiere. The production was
financed independently with the entire local cast, crew and post
production staff working on a volunteer basis. This has been an
incredible journey which I hope to continue. It's time Toronto got
the show that it deserves. Best, Michael Lippert
Writer/Director/Co-Creator 20015
9. LOST TICKET PRODUCTIONS MICHAEL LIPPERT
WRITER/DIRECTOR/CREATOR Michael Lippert is a Toronto-based
Writer/Director/Producer. He was born and raised in Walkerton
Ontario, where he was not infected with ecoli. He has worked as a
professional Script Reader for The Nakamura Group Advantage for the
past six years and when hes not busy trying to redefine the face of
Canadian television he works full-time as a Corporate Recruiter. He
also manages a blog on the Recruitment industry entitled Notes From
the Recruitment Desk. JULIA GAGLIANO PRODUCER Julia Gagliano is
based in Toronto and works full time as an analyst for the
enterprise risk division of the largest Canadian bank. She has an
enthusiastic nature and commitment to quality. Julia was born into
a family of successful entrepreneurs and has launched several
businesses selling a variety of goods and services. She is also a
successful real estate investor. Mixing a strong understanding of
the business cycle with intuitive financial savvy, Julia knows how
to stretch a budget to its maximum, and balance short-term
decisions with long-term objectives. MMIICCHCC AEELL JUUULLILL A
2015