Starting over in our lives can happen at any time. It can even happen multiple times, even when you’re in your twenties.
Produced by Welcome to Midnight, a black woman-owned film production company, and created and writted by Jasmine A. Golphin, To New Beginnings follows six young adults — ranging from a wild child to a straight-laced businesswoman — as they try to shed their previous personas. We first meet the characters on New Year’s Eve.
To New Beginnings is a three-part web series that follows the lives of six very different individuals stuck in that space between knowing they need to make a change and actually doing so.
In part (or season) one, Leanne, Darren, Joshua, Sierra, Michelle and Roxie meet at a New Year’s Eve party that none of them particularly wanted to attend. After spending a few hours exchanging small talk with the other guests, looking busy on their phones and numbing their
anxiety/boredom with a few drinks, these six strangers eventually find themselves bonding exceptionally well in a quiet corner. They part ways after the ball drops and exchange contact info. There is an unspoken understanding between the six that they won’t actually reconnect. Partygoers never usually do.
But over the next couple of months, each of them realizes that they
desperately want to recapture the ease, fun and newness of that night.
Part one looks at each character’s life in the time in between the New
Year’s Eve party and the reunion lunch they have two months later.
“To New Beginnings is a product of its time,” says Golphin. “The story is about real people, not idealized versions of ourselves.”
Throughout the series we’ll also see each character confront social issues like mental health, class differences, and family drama.
Watch a trailer for To New Beginnings below. New episodes premiere on Fridays at 6pm. You can also follow the series on Facebook.