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SNIPS & SNAILS (Co-writer/Director/Producer)

Sugar and spice are not very nice when a sickeningly sweet all-girl birthday party becomes a lone boy’s worst nightmare. A dark comedy about a little boy who goes to an all-girl princess birthday party… produced as a horror film. Audience Award winner at Dances with Films, official selection at several festivals including Frameline 31 and distribution with Mini Movie.  


 

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THE SINGLETONS (Writer/Director/Producer)

A family of four is in for a ride when their two adult children are stuck at their parents’ home at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown. A socially distanced experiment filmed entirely remotely from every actor's and crew person's own home. Written and directed by Hilari Scarl, cinematography and editing by Jeff Gatesman, original score by DeAndre James Allen-Toole, starring Michael Murray, Alice Kirwan Murray, Mark Beltzman, Benjamin McFadden and Hilary Barraford. Official selection of the Burbank International Film Festival and the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Acquired as part of the Corona Files anthology produced by Jenni Gold with proceeds going to the Actors Fund.

 

 

on_the_lotDITTO (Writer/Director/Producer)
Written, shot, edited, scored and delivered in five days as part of Steven Spielberg’s television show ON THE LOT. The task was to complete a short three-minute film with no resources using the logline “Something important gets lost.” Based on a true story about the mystery behind the Ditto cup, the film received on-camera praise by judges Garry Marshall, Carrie Fischer and Brett Ratner and was chosen as one of the top 50 best films by Mark Burnett/Steven Spielberg to appear on the show.