Short fiction films focus of tonight's UCLA event
The extension course is geared for industry professionals looking for a way to branch into feature filmmaking.
This year's program:
"Mulligans" --- Tippi Hedren and Marcia Rodd star as widows fulfilling the last wish of one of their husbands in this ironic tale. The story was directed and adapted from a story by Glendon Swarthout by his son Miles Hood Swarthout.
"Mitzi and Joe" --- Jon Gries plays a mobster undone by senior Frances Bay in this character comedy. The film was directed and co-written by actor Cain DeVore with literary editor Angela Lubbock.
"The Lion's Den" ---The story of a young burglar and a supposedly abandoned house. TV director Rick Gough helmed the yarn, produced by development exec Jack Fleishman and TV news producer Noel Hoffman.
"Candy From a Baby" --- A chance meeting bodes the possibility of romance and cash. Television comedy writer Mark Torgove wrote and co-directed the tale produced and co-written by Mike Fowler.
"Change of Luck" --- Sean Russell stars as a smitten man in pursuit of his dream girl. Jeff Nelson is the writer-producer and the short was directed by filmmaker Danny J. Boyle.
