WASHINGTON DC: Districtland: A New Series About Millennials In DC to Shoot Pilot Episode Later This Month

A new series about the District’s young professionals is set to start shooting in Washington DC this August. The show, based off of and named for a hit Capital Fringe play called Districtland, will show a side of DC not shown on shows like House of Cards, Veep, and Scandal, it tells the story of five DC Millennials who grapple with the loss of idealism while working, partying, and struggling to find meaning amid the city's transactional foundations.

The World of Districtland

Shows about DC are having a moment. But those shows are about the halls of power: presidents, vice-presidents, important lawmakers, and their staff. Districtland is the story of this town’s young people. It’s about the Millennials who come to this city brimming with ambition, confidence, and idealism - and what happens once they run up against the familiar, messy problems of adulthood. Districtland will cover the relationships, careers, and social lives of five young DC housemates.
The world of Districtland takes place around the rough edges of those power structures we see in other shows. And, it examines how DC’s often self-centered, short-sighted denizens struggle to maintain their identity as something other than a cog in the transactional machine of US politics.
Surrounding these themes is a rapidly changing, gentrifying city which has suddenly, surprisingly become cool - a hotspot for ambitious, over-educated Millennials.
This is the DC of hipster dive bars and microbreweries, of old Victorian row-houses occupied by underpaid young people, and of a town in which relationships amongst housemates (and lovers, friends, and colleagues) are in constant danger of being subsumed by the unique, anthropological phenomena that is Washington DC.

The show will be produced by two local film production companies, Cue93 Studios and City Different Media. The show’s Pilot episode will premiere at the DC Independent Film Festival in February next year.

“Most shows about DC only show the halls of power,” said writer/producer Russell Max Simon. “The more interesting part of DC to me is what happens to DC’s young people. They are ambitious, idealistic, and educated - but when they move here from across the country, that ambition and idealism often runs directly into the brick wall that is DC’s cynical, transactional culture.”

Districtland is currently raising money through an IndieGogo campaign to fund its Pilot episode, which is shooting at locations around the city later this month.

Visit Districtland’s website here.

Visit the show’s IndieGogo campaign here.

Special Thanks to Russell Max Simon