My Secret Friend
My Secret Friend is the result of a collaboration between Producers Mélisa Breiner-Sanders, Elliot Joseph and Amanda Long. We gathered 10 actors in a room for a week with theatrical director Francesco Campari in order to develop their characters base on randomly assigned them conditions (alcoholism, psoriasis, ADD, etc). Also in the room were 3 writers who took what they saw in the character creation week and wrote 5 episodes.
After only one week of pre-production, we shot 5 episodes in 5 days under the leadership of Elin Gronblom (Director), Jon Fordham (DP), John Michael Crotty (AD) and Mélisa (Production Manager). Elin went on to edit the piece with sound editing by Chris Comfort (ep 1) and Sean Russell (ep 2-5) and color correction by Jon Fordham.
Simultaneous, we also shot a documentary of the process of creating the series and that is currently in post-production.
Full Series
Documentary
We’re Breaking Up
Every episode and in every way, David and Amanda are Breaking Up.
Concept created by Robert King
Written, Directed, Producer and Edited by Robert King and Melisa Breiner-Sanders
Cast: Melisa Breiner-Sanders and Robert King
Two seasons, 12 episodes each season, every episode under 60 seconds
TOKEN: THE SERIES
A crew of unconventional actors fight to keep their theater
alive in the downtown scene of NYC.
Plot Outline: Sia (Sarah Ellen Stephens), and an ensemble of disparate and compelling actors guide you through the world of the Tick Repertory Theater: a new works downtown theater company specifically crafted to bite your attention and get under your skin. When news of the theater's impending shut down materialize, the group gets a taste of what it means to be diverse actors in the industry outside of their home. They must dig deep and fight for freedom from stereotypical boundaries, and keep their beloved theater company afloat.
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Film Festivals: Miami WebFest and LA WebFest
Writer and Creator Sarah Ellen Stephens
Director Jason Bruffy and Vandit Bhatt
UPM Melisa Breiner-Sanders
CAUCASIAN
Creator and Director Joseph Conroy
Producer Melisa Breiner-Sanders
Cast: Melisa Breiner-Sanders, Josh Levine, Kana Conroy
Winner, Urban Mediamaker Film Festival 2013
CaucAsian tells the story of an oblivious white couple living in NYC who, by a freak occurrence of nature, deliver an Asian-looking infant. Not adoption, not infidelity, just an Asian-looking baby. Instead of adapting the baby to their culture, they misguidedly decide it would be best to “Asianize” her. Thus begins their odyssey of hilarity. They travel from Chinatown to Little Manila, and from Bryant Park to the West Village on a quest to discover the “ideal” Asian culture. In the style of Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Office, CaucAsian looks to make light of common ignorance and misconceptions that Americans can have to eastern cultures.