MORAL COMPASS (formerly titled WIFEALITY), is a short film that was produced in mid August 2015. Written by our very own Kylie Garcelon, it is the story of Jacquelyn, a loving wife, who faces the agony of watching her husband suffer through Alzheimer’s Disease. He has lost his dignity and life as he used to know it, no longer exists. Jacquelyn, believing that she has no other options, must decide whether or not to honor her husband’s wishes and do the unthinkable.

Heartbreaking and dramatic, MORAL COMPASS broaches rarely touched upon issues. We believe that increased social discourse must occur surrounding Alzheimer’s Disease and its caregivers, who suffer from isolation and depression. We want to provoke more conversation on this horrific and crippling disease and the need for a cure and further research. The MORAL COMPASS screenplay won three awards;  2nd place in the Short Script Competition at the 2014 Yosemite International Film Festival, a “top ten finalist” in the screenplay competition of the 2015 NYC Independent Film Festival and a "quarter finalist" in the 2015 Screencraft Short Screenplay category.  

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MORAL COMPASS was also awarded an "Official Selection" from the 2016 Toronto Film Week Film Festival, 2016 Hoboken International Film Festival, 2016 Noosa International Film Festival, the 2016 Atlantic City Cinefest, the 2016 Yonkers Film Festival (YoFi), the 2016 NYC Independent Film Festival and the 2017 Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival.  In addition, Kylie Garcelon was awarded Best Director Short Drama and Robyn Babina was awarded Best Supporting Actress Short Drama from the 2016 Atlantic City Cinefest.

 

MORAL COMPASS can be seen on Amazon Prime, IFTNetwork.com and also on Vimeo.
 

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MORAL COMPASS was written and directed by Kylie Hitchcock-Garcelon at the end of 2015-16.

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Annie McGreevey/Jacquelyn

Annie McGreevey made her Broadway debut as a “Big Spender Girl” in

Sweet Charity; played Marta (“Another Hundred People”) in both the 

original Broadway and London productions of Company; created the role of 

Donna in The Magic Show; Lily St. Regis in Annie and 18 characters in The 

Moony Shapiro Songbook; standby for Mrs. Lovett and the Beggar Woman 

in Sweeney Todd at Circle in the Square. Off Broadway: Angel Eyes in I 

Stand Before You Naked at the American Place Theater; Co-wrote, along 

with Jim Crabtree, the one woman show Footloose in Flatbush which she 

also starred in at The Westside Arts Center; Mrs. Tancred in City Center’s 

Encore production of Juno. Nationally: Voices of War, a one woman drama 

commissioned by the Library of Congress. Annie played Rose, an 80 year 

old holocaust survivor, in Martin Sherman’s one woman play of the same 

name. She created, along with Roger Grunwald, The Mitzvah (originally 

entitled Walter& Jakob) at the Emerging Artists Theatre’s “Illuminating 

Artists” festival. The Mitzvah which stars Mr. Grunwald and is directed by 

Ms. McGreevey, has been chosen for fiscal sponsorship by the New York 

Foundation for the Arts. It is currently touring nationally. Television: Ms. 

McGreevey has most recently been featured on Law and Order, Law & 

Order: Special Victims Unit, and Six Degrees. Over the years she has also 

been featured in numerous television commercials. Ms. McGreevey is a 

concert artist, nightclub performer, and recording artist. A graduate of 

LACC’s School of Cinema, and an alumna of AFI’s Directing Workshop For 

Women, Annie wrote, directed, and produced several short films. Her film, 

The Sheet Cake, aired on PBS stations throughout the South. She

founding member of The Alliance of Woman Directors.

 

 

Steve Carter/Riley 

Steve made his stage acting debut at the Canton Ohio Player’s Guild Theater in the 1960s. 

From then till now is nearly a lifetime of, experience, loves, losses, money, no money, 

successes, failures. . .memories.

Memory. 

What are we but memory? 

To use all of a lifetime of memory to create a character, Riley, in The Moral Compass, a 

role so much about memory, is a real gift. The character is also about relationship and it 

is such an honor to open my heart/mind memory to make Riley real and invite the 

audience into his life created from the screenplay and pieces of my own life. 

As I get older, the roles, the acting, gets deeper.

 

 

 

Robyn Babina/Ashley

For as long as she can remember, Robyn Babina has always had a fascination with acting.  Her BFA in

Film/Drama from Syracuse University allowed her the opportunity to explore different aspects of the

industry and after college, she spent 10 years directing school productions and teaching drama to

middle school students.  In the winter of 2011, Robyn joined a community theater group portraying

Marcie in a local production of You Are A Good Man Charlie Brown. After that first experience of

being on stage, she knew there was no going back!  She began taking classes and fine tuning her

skills by studying the methods of  Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, the Meisner Technique, and practicing

improvisation with the Magnet Theater and UCB.  In these few short years, Robyn has appeared

as principal and supporting characters in all forms of media including short and feature films,

television productions, webseries, commercials and also theater. Most recently, in addition to

portraying Jules in Gluteny, and Ashley in Moral Compass, she has starred in an episode of Monsters

Inside Me (Animal Planet) and participated in a showcase performance of scenes taken from both

Angels in America and Agnes of God. She currently lives in southern Connecticut with her husband

and her two little boys.  Robyn is also a co-founder of Gladiolus Productions,LLC.