Heidi was a part of and shot the short film “Let There Be Peace”, directed by (dir./actor) Donald Watson. Heidi plays a showgirl that has seen it all. It’s a profound piece that makes a statement about what’s needed today… more Peace in the world! Don is a great director, & it has a wonderful cast! We’re psyched to see this finished project!
Heidi participated in the script reading of “Scrap”, a poignant & dramatic piece, written by (actress/wr.) Vivian Kerr, as part of the We Make Movies community. Heidi got to play a 4 yr-old little girl! This is where Heidi’s VO skills are fun to apply to these kinds of imaginative roles!
Heidi participates in a partial script reading of “Cleaning House”, written by Gabby Tary, a political satire, as part of the We Make Movies community. Heidi plays the part of a curious & determined police detective, named Kathy Murdock.
Heidi does some VO ADR for the fabulous horror/zombie-compilation movie “Virus of the Dead”, produced by over 25 producers, including the award-wining (dir./wr./producer) John Penney!
Heidi travels to Santa Barbara to participate in a play reading of a play by Caroline Aaron, called "Such A Pretty Face"; which will be produced by Kevin Costner, as well as Aaron Semmel! Great cast & wonderful team they are assembling for this future production! It has to do with warped female body issues in today's society, & has a very meaningful message!! Wonderfully written Caroline! Congrats to all!
In the 1st yr. Anniversary for the website based on the movie, “Unbroken”, the film asked people to post their most challenging moments up on their website called “#IamUnbroken”. I shared my story up there from many years ago, of when I had to learn how to walk again… My piece is called “Never Give Up!”, & the website is still posting inspiring stories from people all over the world! Here’s the link to their website: http://www.iamunbroken.com/ Please scroll down until you see my story’s title, and written by Heidi S.! Thanks for reading!
Heidi participates in the partial reading of the comedic pilot “Normaltown”, written by Ton Pezone Clay, as part of the We Make Movies community. She plays an open-minded, funny, hippie chick! What a FUN character!
Heidi books a part on the Cartoon Network’s cartoon called “We Bare Bears” as the recurring role of the forest ranger’s Mom! What a FUN cartoon, with some wonderful comedians as part of the cast! A terrific creator/director of the show, Daniel Chong! & a BIG thank you to CD, Kristi Reed!! Airing date will be posted on here, once it is known!
Heidi’s script “Mary Had a Little Lamb” is read as part of the Semi-Finalists of the We Make Movies Short Film Challenge! GREAT acting by actors, Elan Swanson, Thom Rivera & Geoffrey Gould narrating, this fun, fresh, & hilarious comedy! It was a close vote for all scripts involved in the evening, so, even though her script did not move on, she will be raising the funds to shoot this project in the near future. Still a win-win scenario!!
In the same evening, Heidi narrated another We Make Movies Short Film Challenge script; a comedy called “Happy Hour”, written by Christine Grail. Great premise about the world of dating in the present day! Funny characters! Great job, Christine!
Heidi participated in wr/dir/actress Gabby Tary’s script “Cleaning House”, a political satire, at the Novel Café in Santa Monica. She played the part of a curious & determined police detective, named Kathy Murdock. A timely script about the elections, that takes place against the backdrop of some political murders. Great cast, & script!
Heidi voices a character in great friend Ernie Charles’ hilarious short film, “I Think I Need a Drink”! This is a terrific piece written, produced & starring Ernie, and a full-on super cast of actors! He will be entering it into festivals soon! Look here for updates of specifics…
Heidi participates in another 2 We Make Movie Short Film Challenge scripts: The 1st scriptwas a drama named “Coin”, written by Tehana Weeks about what a young woman’s experience dealing with poverty. Powerful story, Tehana! The 2nd script was a poignant story named “Lost & Found”, written by Dawn Sam Alden, that dealt with the reuniting of 2 sisters that had lost each other through fated circumstances. Beautiful story & characters! Great job, Dawn!
Heidi was involved in the reading of the supernatural script “The Coal Bin”, written by Geoffrey Gould, as part of the We Make Movies community. She narrated this powerful story of intrigue & revenge! Wonderful writing & characters!!
Heidi shot the short film "The Attic" by Award-winning dir./writer Sean Cunninham. Actor Jeremy Mascia played my brother, as we're a sister/brother dealing with the death of their Father. Wonderful director, with great writing & a really poignant film!
Heidi’s script “Mary Had a Little Lamb” made it into the Semi-Finals of the We Make Movies Short Film Challenge, where the winner gets $5K to make their short film!! Her script will be read in Nov., in front of the WMM community!
Heidi participated in the We Make Movies 2015 Apple Filmmaking challenge, where a team of WMM members collaborated on a short film, which was shot, edited,& screened over one weekend in the middle of Oct. in collaboration with the Santa Monica Apple store, who furbished all of the equipment & training for free! The film was a comedy called "The Table Read" (wr/dir/actor) by great friend Chris Valenti; co-dir.: Dawn Bower; DP: John Beaton Hill; Editor: Michael Beardsley; Sound: John Mickevich. Heidi was the Script Supervisor on this hilarious short!
Heidi narrates the comedic short film “In For a Penny” by (wr./actress) Stina Pederson, as part of the 1st night of We Make Movies’ Semi-finalists. Each eve. of Semi-Finalist script readings, 11 scripts are read, & out of those, 2 move on to the Finals! Good Luck everyone!
Heidi participates in the reading of the comedic pilot “Re-Committed”,written by Kelly Mullis, Michael Beardsley, Geoffrey Gould, & Maureen Chesus, as part of the We Make Movies community. It was an hysterical piece about the crazy world of therapy! Great writing!
Heidi is involved in the We Make Movies showcase that is happening on Wed. Oct. 14th, at 7:30pm, at the Asylum Theatre in Hollywood! Heidi is in a comedic piece with Ernie Charles (directed by dir/wr./actor Chris Valenti). It's from an orig. Off Broadway One-act, called "Do Over"! Hilarious! Come laugh w/ us, & have an eve. of FUN!
Heidi's short film "Desk Job" (which Won at 2015's L.A Short Film Festival for Best Short Film (for dir. Jason Eaken), Best Actor (Pat Healy), Best Supporting Actor & Heidi, for Best Supporting Actress!), is psyched to be a part of this month's We Make Movies Screening Series!
Heidi was involved this month in a shoot of a great project: a FAB webseries called "Get Spy", written by actor/writer David Beatty: Such a fun set & premise for this episode! The cast & crew, especially David Beatty, are stellar to work with!
Heidi attends the Action On Film Festival to support great friend (filmmaker/writer) John Beaton Hill's film "The Wolves of Savin Hill", which has been nominated for 3 awards! Will post here about other future screenings of this great film… Congrats John!
The film that began last Nov., written by Joseph Dougherty (wr/prod. of "Pretty Little Liars"), called "What's Your Opinion of Memory?", finally shot it's conclusion this mo.! Thanks to dir. Glenn Thomas & actor Todd Cattell, it finally happened! Heidi is very grateful for being involved in this poignant story by Joseph Dougherty!
Here is the link to the WYOM FB page that has the newest photos of the cast & director shooting on Santa Monica beach, as well as earlier pics from last year’s beginning of this project: (To find the newest uploads on this page for the most recent shoot’s (Sept’s) pics; plse. look on the left hand side of the page, & click…) https://www.facebook.com/whatsyouropinionofmemory?fref=ts
Heidi attends the Burbank Intern'l Film Festival to support friends Chris Valenti & Miriam Meyer, who both contributed their talents to a film collaboration of 12 shorts in the festival. Chris's short "The Honesty Trial", & Miriam's composing were involved in this very cool feat!
Also, friends Christine & Robert DiTillio were a part of the same fest, in the mockumentary "Attack of the Film Festivals"... Both films won awards!
Heidi participates in the partial script reading of a new comedic feature film called "Killers Anonymous" by writer Jason Holtham: (Fabulous writing, characters, & premise!), & Jack Zullo's action comedy "Ex No More", where Heidi got to play an assassin-like agent! Fun!... Both projects with the We Make Movies community.
