A heartfelt thanks to everyone who made this night so special. ♥
Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Film Radar: "ODD BRODSKY—a Movie about Hollywood—to have Hollywood Premiere at 17th Annual Dances With Films"
Love this story by Film Radar.
How does one make it in Hollywood these days? By getting their name in front of people! And that’s exactly what director Cindy Baer is doing with her new movie ODD BRODSKY, which is set to have its Hollywood Premiere at the historic Chinese Theatres as the Alumni Spotlight Feature at the 17th Annual Dances With Films Festival.
Getting her name in front of people is just one of many concepts taken to hilarious extreme in ODD BRODSKY, an off-beat comedy about the adventures of 30-something Audrey Brodsky, played delightfully by Tegan Ashton Cohan, who’ll do just about anything to find her big break in Hollywood.
Encouraged from an early age by her doting mother Mary (Jesse Meriwether) at anything and everything, young Audrey (Ilana Klusky) makes a grave-side promise to become an actress. Audrey grows up, moves to Hollywood, and finds great success… working forty hours a week at a steady office job she hates. Ten years pass in the blink of an eye when Audrey finally decides to reclaim her childhood dream.
Although her befuddled father Joe (John Alton) doesn’t understand, Audrey finds support with “the Angels”, a group of five close girlfriends who encourage one another through tough love, which also makes for good comedy. Here we meet fellow Angel Sammy (played by director/actress Cindy Baer, who also narrates the movie) and she’s “stuck” too. This plot point proves to be an interesting one, because it later comes around in a way that’s instrumental to Audrey’s plight, albeit not in a way you may expect.
Antics ensue as Audrey fumbles to create her new life as an actress. She hires an aspiring camera man from the internet named Camera One (Matthew Kevin Anderson) and moves in with a sexy new roommate Spuds (actor/musician Scotty Dickert). Insider jokes about living in Los Angeles bring forth some amusing social commentary about the importance we place on celebrity. But don’t be fooled. Below the jokes lies a bittersweet story that proves both inspiring and realistic. Although this tale is industry- and female- centric, anyone who’s ever felt stuck, disconnected or invisible will relate to this film. In the end, we are reminded that validation and happiness have little to do with fame. What most people want is to be connected; connected with ourselves, each other and the world.
Sure to be a crowd-pleaser playing on its home turf, ODD BRODSKY screens as the Alumni Spotlight Feature at the 17th Annual Dances With Films Festival on Saturday night, June 7th at 7:15pm.
Tickets are available at the Chinese Theatre box office or here: www.danceswithfilms.com/slt_odd_brodsky.html
Thursday, May 8, 2014
STALKED playing at the Downtown Independent Film Festival
Monday, February 17, 2014
4-Page feature story on Cindy Baer in IndieSource Magazine!
"One of the most driven independents out there Cindy Baer embodies what it is to be a filmmaker playing by her own rules. Polite and determined, she will not take no for an answer. She doesn't wait for the door to be opened. She kicks it in with the force of an army, then politely says Hello, sorry about your door. She was a blast to interview and we hope you agree."
Online Magazine in here.
Monday, January 6, 2014
Stark Insdider review of ODD BRODSKY give 4.5 out of 5 stars!!
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
ODD BRODSKY on Reel Critic's list of "Best Films of the Year!"
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Sneak Peak at the ODD BRODSKY trailer!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
FEW OPTIONS on Showtime
A film I had a small role in called FEW OPTIONS (starring Kenny Johnson) is playing on Showtime this month. I play Jillian, the girlfriend of Don (Rainn Wilson from "The Office"). Check it out!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
July 24, 2010
I know exactly what I was doing one year ago today. I woke up and starting filming my day, along with 80,000 other people from 192 countries. Now it lives in a 90 minute film called LIFE IN A DAY that opens in theaters today--exactly one year later! Amazing... Here's the TRAILER
Sunday, February 13, 2011
ASSISTED LIVING
I had a blast playing the part of a couple-monster in the funny pilot for a new show called "Assisted Living" directed by David DeLouis. Here I am pictured with the guy who plays my husband: John Borkowski, in our matching outfits...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The Bleedy
It was so much fun getting the official statue and walking the red carpet at Bleedfest! MORBID CURIOSITY had won the Audience Award in December, but the statue had not arrived from the artist overseas. It's a gorgeous piece of art called the Inanna, which is named after the Goddess of art and war!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Slashdance!
photo by mikehedge.comWhile we were at Sundance this year we decided that instead of just watching movies that we'd make a movie! Matt wrote a script, Jenny shot it and I directed. Stay tuned for SLASHDANCE...
Friday, January 28, 2011
LIFE IN A DAY at Sundance
On July 24, 2010, more than 80,000 clips were submitted to this documentary project from 192 countries that added up to 4,500 hours of video! Clips were narrowed down from there to make a 90 minute documentary called LIFE IN A DAY, that premiered at Sundance! Remember my blog post last July? Matt and I had submitted footage and and it made the final cut! It was a lot of fun to see the movie in a packed 1200 seat theater at the Eccles! And the next day we learned that National Geographic is picking the movie and it will be released in theaters on July 24, 2011 --exactly 1 year after the day we all shot it. 
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Morbid Curiosty and Stalked at Bleedfest
We had a blast at the AWESOME Bleedfest Film Festival, which was founded by the super-talented Elisabeth Fies & Brenda Fies. They invited MORBID CURIOSITY to screen and we were just thrilled to win the audience award! We also previewed a sneak peak of a work-in-progress of STALKED (the short we made in NYC) and the audience LOVED it! It could not have gone better. They laughed at all the right places. Great festival. They are trying to raise money to keep it going. If you can help, please donate here.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Seymour Sally Rufus
Matt wrote a great 1-page short story back in 1991 or 1992 (long before I met him) for a class at Stanford. Well.. today it became a film! Brian Dietzen (NCIS) is playing the lead role of Seymour, Ignacio Serricchio (General Hosptial/ Ghost Whisperer) is Rufus and I'm Sally! Jim Hanks cancelled his trip so that he could be around to play the doctor (thank you!!!) and Katrina was the receptionist. We shot it right here in our home. Matt was the DP, Traci Glodery co-produced , Imre was gaffer and grip, and Ryan did sound/PA, Violetta did make-up...and we had a blast! I had our lunch catered by Pitfire Grill, one of my favorite local restaurants. and it rained the whole day! But we did it! What a fun day!! Can't wait to start editing...
Friday, November 5, 2010
Someone is getting STALKED in NYC
Matt and I were in New York City for a gig this week (for the third time in 2 months!), and I REALLY wanted to shoot something. I put out a call for scripts, but nobody responded. So Matt came to the rescue and wrote me a REALLY GREAT 5 minute short! We spent 3 nights with our DP friend Jenny Ramirez running all over the city grabbing shots with our Canon 5DMarkII, and came up with a great little project with fantastic production value, considering it only cost about $100! We shot at the hotel we were staying at in Times Square, and found locations in a Bodega, Times Square, an outside Cafe, the subway and an elevator.
My favorite fun fact about this project is that for the score, we ended up using a piece that Matt had composed and performed in 1994!! We transfered it to the computer and it worked perfectly --16 years later!! good fun. I love this short film so much!!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
SCREAM QUEEN at Hollyshorts
The rough cut of SCREAM QUEEN (written by and directed by the talented Lis Fies) was invited to premiere at the prestigious Hollyshorts Film Festival! (I play the lead role of Buffy). Opening night party was at the DGA on Sunset Blvd, and the short screened at the Leammle to a GREAT crowd who loved it! Our screening was on my birthday (how fun!!) and couldn't have gone better... This short's already been invited to screen at 4 more festivals! FUN!!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Rainn Day and Beyond...
Wow! It's been a crazy busy year it's been! Just got back from spending Memorial Day weekend in Atlanta with Matt. He's on the set of his latest feature called QUARANTINE 2: TERMINAL, which was back-to-back with shooting his prior feature THINGS FALL APART. Normally he's home for longer stretchs in between, but this time we only had a weekend in LA together before he left for Michigan! My whirlwind 3 day weekend in Atlanta was a blast. We visited Piedmont Park, went to the Farmer's Market, hit the Atlanta Jazz Festival, had Lobsters at Legal Seafood, had catfish at Boneheads, and spent some quality time. Then I flew home just in time to shoot my 2 days on the feature FEW OPTIONS ALL BAD.
It was a blast being on set with Rainn Wilson (from The Office) and Kenny Johnson (The Sheild). I only had a few lines, but I had my own trailer. I had to miss the opening night party for Dances With Films since our shoot went until about 11pm --but I'm not complaining! I'll take work as a paid SAG actress on an AWESOME film any day! The next week at DWF was a blast. I did my social networking thing and helped filmmakers make the most of their experience. I also ended up taking a TON of photos. Right after DWF ended I shot the lead role in Lis Fies' SCREAM QUEEN at the Hollywood Cemetery and also did a voice-over for CANARY SUICIDES.
The next week I had a gig at Samy's and then I flew back to Atlanta to spend 2 weeks on the set of Matt's movie with him. On the way I stopped off in Austin and spent 3 days with Josh and his family. I finally met my niece and nephew, and I am not being biased at all when I say these are THE CUTEST kids I have ever met. Truly...
All the while we'd entered the Chase contest for the second time to try and win a $20K grant for POTA. With Jennifer Hazel by my side. The two of us were unstoppable! I took my computer to the set, and got all the the actors and crew (even the extras) to vote! On the weekends Matt and I made the most of our travels. We went to the Atlanta aquarium, which has the largest tank in the word, had more lobster at Legal Seafood, spent the fourth of July at Stone Mountain, and saw fireworks from our patio of our fancy downtown hotel. We also visited the Botanical Gardens. The good thing about going home this time was knowing that a week and a half later Matt would be home too...
Sunday, February 7, 2010
It's a wrap!
Finished principal photography on the Lizzie Borden horror
feature a few days ago. It was a blast. Here's a pic of me as
the hatchet murderess. The cast and crew were a blast
to work with. Can't wait to see how it turns out! They hope
to have a first cut next month!
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