Broken into seven chapters, Nobody Wants To be Just Ordinary follows several young people trying to make it in Hollywood. The film follows an anxious aspiring writer trying to shop her independent film to producers. The self-absorbed influencer who not only wants more followers but also wants to break into the film industry. A young actor who impersonates Toby Maguire’s, Spider Man, on Hollywood Boulevard along with other impersonators of celebrities and superheroes, a struggling comedian that opens her show to a crowd of three, an aspiring actress named Adriana from Brazil that also works as a waitress to make ends meet and tries her hand at networking in hopes that she’s spotted by a producer. Last but not least there is Manuel, the aspiring rapper who dreams of making it big in the music industry.
Stefania Vasconcellos is a Brazilian writer, director, and producer based in Los Angeles. After graduating in theater at TEPA (Theatre School of Porto Alegre), she moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she attended the Film Directing program at Darcy Ribeiro Film School. She has directed the short films "Boa Noite" (Good Night), "Meu" (Mine), and "No Caminho Dos Pés" (The Way). The latter was shown at more than 30 festivals around the world and was the singular Brazilian short film entry in the Stockholm Film Festival in 2014. Recently, she made her debut as a writer and director with the feature film "The French Teacher" that world premiered and won the "Artistic Direction Award" at the Edera Film Festival, Treviso, Italy. The film was selected by several festivals around the world and was part of the FIPRESCI Prize selection at Flying Broom Film Festival in Turkey.
