SORRY BY PROXY 💌 A micro-series created in Cantina

🎬 Pilot episode: https://cantina.com/i/b0h99

🔗 Character (June Hale): https://cantina.com/profile/junehalesorrybyproxy

🔗 Pilot episode: https://cantina.com/i/b0h99

About the series June Hale is a Gen Z "Apology Creator" in Brooklyn. Strangers send her the apologies they can't say themselves, and she delivers them in person, live, for a fee. In the pilot, a routine $500 livestream delivery goes sideways when a cheating apology turns out to involve the girlfriend's roommate, who is standing right there. June has said sorry to a million strangers. She has never said it for herself.

Where the series goes next Every episode is a new delivery, built on a repeatable format with a bigger story underneath. In Episode 2, Kayla comes back as a client and hires June to deliver a "reverse apology" to Marcus, testing June's one rule: she only delivers real apologies. Over the season, the deliveries get harder (a brand wants a corporate apology, a rival Apology Creator appears, a fake apology goes viral) while June's own story unfolds: her dad left without a word, and one unsent message has sat in her drafts folder for three years. The series also invites the audience in. At the end of each episode, June asks viewers to drop the sorry they can't say, and future episodes can deliver them.

Creator Studio feedback What worked well: tagging characters and locations kept June consistent across clips, and the Action / Dialogue / SFX structure made it easy to plan the pilot shot by shot.

Limitations: small props were hard to control. A phone with a clip-on ring light often rendered as two separate objects or as a second phone. Text inside scenes (neon signs, phone screens, livestream UI) often came out garbled. Camera direction was sometimes ignored; selfie framing tended to look like a third-person camera. When a prop tag was removed, the noun disappeared from the prompt text, which caused random objects to appear.

Suggestions: a prop library that works like the character library, a reliable text overlay tool for titles and UI graphics, and camera presets (selfie, POV, over-the-shoulder).

Confirmations ✅ The submitted character and pilot were created end-to-end in Cantina. ✅ This submission is my original work. #SorryByProxy