NOTHING TO SAY
Narrative Feature
Project Type: Narrative Feature
Project Status: Pre-Production
Writer/Director/Producer: Taylor Brogan
Producer: Elise Laplante
Producer: Michael Dean Hebert Lead (Bridget): Olivia Scott Welch
Lead (Nick): Daniel Doheny
Website: nothingtosaymovie.com
LOGLINE
Bridget and Nick are two friends who never got the timing right. Nick thinks now might be the right time, but Bridget isn’t so sure…
THE STORY
‘Nothing to Say’ is the story of two friends trying to love each other without hurting themselves. Bridget and Nick have been friends since high school, and they’re frequently in love with each other, but never at the same time. The story takes place over the course of a few days, as Bridget is crashing on Nick’s couch in LA while she interviews for a job in his city. She’s got an Ivy League degree. He’s a barely-employed musician. Even though it’s been years since they’ve seen each other and life has taken them in different directions, they fall easily into a comfortable rhythm. It’s always been easy for them.
Nick is optimistic. They’ve never lived in the same place as adults, and if Bridget gets this job, they might finally get a chance to be together. But Bridget is confused. She doesn’t know how she feels about Nick. She was in love with him when they were younger, but he broke her heart, so she got over it. Now, she doesn’t know if she can find the feelings she used to have for Nick. But she wants to. After all, she loves Nick, really. They know each other. They speak the same language. And yet… there’s something missing.
Bridget begins the movie with a real sense of hope that she might actually fall back in love with Nick. But as they spend more time together, Bridget realizes she’s never going to feel the way she used to feel. Nick, on the other hand, only grows more confident that this thing with Bridget is finally about to become real. The only way forward is for both of them to say all the unsaid, true and hurtful things they’ve kept buried for years. And in the aftermath, the new shape of their relationship emerges. Is their friendship bigger than romance? Or are they doomed to keep hurting each other forever?
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I call this a “Chicken Soup” movie. It’s the kind of movie you watch over and over again. You tell your friends about it. You throw it on when you need a good laugh or a cathartic cry. It reminds you of someone you used to know. You remember them fondly. It’s a conversation you’ve had in your own kitchen at 2am. It’s trusting someone enough to say the mean thing out loud. This is a film about unrequited love, yes, but it’s also about friendship, and the precise kind of love that can survive a heartbreak.
This film is inspired by my relationship with my best friend from high school, who I’ve known since I was 14. I love him deeply. I was in love with him when we were younger, but after several years of one-sided pining, I had to get over it. And as soon as I did, he realized he had feelings for me. It’s a tale as ordinary as it is tragic.
So many of my favorite films are about the-one-who-got-away (Past Lives, La La Land, the Before trilogy), but those stories are usually about external forces in life getting in the way of true love or whatever. The characters love each other, but they’re on different paths. The obstacles are largely external or situational. In my experience, the greatest heartbreaks of my life have not been the result of living in different time zones or having incompatible ambitions, but about a simple imbalance of feeling. One person just wants the other a little bit too much, or not enough. This particular kind of heartbreak is a universal feeling that’s underexplored in cinema. And it’s the kind of heartbreak I plan to explore in this film.
Meet The Filmmakers
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Taylor Brogan
Writer/Director/Producer
Taylor is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. She grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated with honors from the University of Chicago. Her first writing job was on a PBS Digital adaptation of Frankenstein that has since been scrubbed from the internet, but it got her into the WGA at 22. She’s spent the majority of her career in TV writers’ rooms and most recently wrote an episode of AMC’s Lucky Hank, starring Bob Odenkirk. She’s a fan of figure skating, Shakespeare, cold weather, and post-punk.
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Elise Laplante
Producer
Elise is a writer & producer born and raised in Florida. She has produced numerous shorts and has worked behind the scenes on television shows such as Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Yellowstone, Star Trek: Picard, as well as feature films like The Duff. Last year, the proof of concept she produced for the musical The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul made its debut via Playbill. She teaches in the Cinema department at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita and volunteers with Young Storytellers in Boyle Heights.
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Michael Dean Hebert
Producer
Michael grew up in Northern Wisconsin. He went to school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied film and philosophy and helped run the student comedy paper. He first started production work in Madison, making commercials for MillerCoors, before moving to LA to pursue filmmaking. He is currently a Manager of Development Production at Netflix Animation. Prior to Netflix, he worked at Disney on Encanto, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He has produced two short films going to festivals in 2026, and in addition to ‘Nothing to Say’ is also producing the feature film ‘Baby Sister’ through CFA.
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Olivia Scott Welch
Lead (Bridget)
Olivia is an American actress born and raised in Hurst, Texas. She is best known for her starring role of Sam Fraser in Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, as well as starring in the Prime Video series Panic. Other credits include indie features Shithouse and The Sacrifice Game, and TV series like Lucky Hank, Unbelievable, and Modern Family.
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Daniel Doheny
Lead (Nick)
Daniel is an actor and writer from Vancouver, Canada, best known for his starring roles in the 2018 films Alex Strangelove and The Package. He has worked in features, television and theatre for the past decade. He has written for television and film, and performs his own work on stage.
Your Help
NOTHING TO SAY is a fiscally sponsored project of Cinematography for Actors, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation will be tax-deductible!