4
a.m. story conference between the rookie director and famed actresses
Tippi Hedren and Marcia Rodd on the Mountaingate Country Club course
in the Sepulveda Pass above Westwood, California, while making Mulligans!
"Miles,
your film was an enormous hit!"
Karen vanMeenen, Director, Rochester International Short Film
Festival, May, 1999.
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"I
can't believe it? I thought your marriage was just about
perfect."
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23 minutes, NTSC and PAL VHS videocassettes only of this prize-winning short comedy are available for $25 each, including postage, from Hoodwinks Productions, 8180 Manitoba Street, Pacific Club # 354, Playa del Rey, California 90293, or on-line from Amazon Associates.
Mulligans! --
was filmed over eight long nights in April/May of 1997 under the aegis
of UCLA Extension's year-long short film course. This 23-minute 35mm
comedy tells the tale of Dottie and
Madge, two golf widows who set out
on a midnight misadventure after too many martinis at their
country club to execute the last wish of Madge's deceased husband.
Harvey wanted his ashes strewn in the sandtrap next to the 16th green,
where he had once hit a hole-in-one, the high point of his life. So,
in high heels and recrimination, Tippi Hedren and Marcia Rodd grab fresh cocktails and Harvey's brass urn, "borrow" a golf cart, and off into the darkening night they go! Trouble follows . . .
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"Hookers? Harvey? I can-not believe it . . ." |
"Is
it a wild spaniel?" |
In
three years on the international film festival circuit, little Mulligans!
has become a hit, bringing more acting work to its two female stars
and applause, laughter, and prizes to its filmmakers. Since its
UCLA Extension summer of '97 premiere at the Motion Picture Academy
Theatre in Beverly Hills, Mulligans!
has played such film festivals as the 26th Algarve Short Film Festival
in Portugal, the 20th Independent Feature Film Market in New York
City, the 10th New Orleans, the 18th Hawaiian, the 17th Three Rivers
in
Pittsburgh, the 4th Palm Beach, the 30th Nashville, the 16th Long
Island, and the 15th Boston Film Festival, and the 2nd CineVegas. Mulligans!
has won a Gold Medal as the Best Comedy Short (Adaptation) at the 31st
Houston Worldfest; a Runner-Up as Best Short Film at the 21st Philafilm festival; an Honorable Mention for the Grand Prix in their
professional category at the 37th short film festival in Huy, Belgium;
a Prizewinner as one of the Bests of the Fest at the 41st Rochester
Festival (America's oldest shortsfest); Best Comedy Short at the 4th
Sea to Sky Festival in Squamish, British Columbia; a CINE Gold
Eagle (professional category) from the United States Information
Agency, Washington, D.C., a President's Award for Short Subject from
the 2nd Ajijic International de Cine, Jalisco, Mexico.
Tippi
Hedren also won a Best Actress in a Short Film Prize from the 2nd
Methodfest Film Festival in Pasadena, California, in June 2000.
This pilot episode is shot and
all set to become a single camera, filmed half-hour sitcom of an
American version of the British hit, Absolutely Fabulous.
Treatments for the first 8 half-hour episodes are available from
Hoodwinks Productions in Playa del Rey, California
(310-578-5404).
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"MULLIGANS!" |
