2004 POWER UP FILM GRANT RECIPIENT


Billy’s essay assignment causes him to take a look at the world around him. What will he be when he grows up? Does he want to be a policeman or a fireman? Or will Billy turn out to be a fudge-packer like his father?


POWER UP
presents BILLY’S DAD IS A FUDGE-PACKER
Robert Gant Cady Huffman Alex Borstein
Production Designer Simona Ennas
Costume Designer Mynka Draper
Music by Rob Cairns Editor Juli Vizza
Director of Photography Thomas Callaway
Executive Producers Stacy Codikow, Lisa Thrasher
Produced by Juli Vizza & Steak House
Written & Directed by Jamie Donahue


POWER UP film grant sponsored by CCI Digital

JAMIE DONAHUE writer/director

While in high school, Jamie Donahue was very active in college and community theater. After graduation she turned down a math scholarship and moved to Los Angeles with nothing but $500.00 and a dog. She worked three jobs and took a loan to afford acting school, where she studied with Estelle Harmon for four years. She continued doing theater and started to get her feet wet in independent films.

After appearing in a slew uninspired, paint-by-numbers films, Jamie decided to pick up her pen and try
her hand at writing. She has currently sold several options to her work.

She has had a varied career in the entertainment industry, having appeared in such feature films as Whipped, The Dead Hate The Living, and the festival award-winning, yet still unreleased, Stop It,
You’re Killing Me! The list of short films she has appeared in is too many to list, but among them is Fay Dunaway’s The Yellow Bird.

But not all of her work has been in front of the camera. She has filled every crew position from P.A. to first A.D, most often working as a field sound technician for ABC News, and shows such as Extra!

BILLY’S DAD IS A FUDGE-PACKER
2005 Sundance Film Festival
2005 PlanetOut Film Festival COMEDY FINALIST
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Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival 2005
Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2005
Cineffable – Paris Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Cinequest 2005
Closet Cinema - Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Comedia - Just for Laughs 2005
Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Fairy Tales International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
FilmOut San Diego Film Festival 2005
Frameline 2005
Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival 2005
Image + Nation – Montreal Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Inside Out - Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival 2005
London Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Martha’s Vineyard Independent Film Festival 2005
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2005
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Nashville Film Festival 2005
Newport Beach Film Festival 2005
North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
OUT Loud Long Beach Art & Film Festival 2005
Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Outfest 2005
Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2005
Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
PlanetOut Film festival 2005
Q Cinema-Forth Worth Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Queer Screen-Mardi Gras Film Festival, Darlinghurst, Australia 2005
Queersicht – Bern, Switzerland Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Reel Affirmations – Washington DC GLBT Film Festival 2005
Reel Queer Syracuse 2005
Rhode Island International Film Festival 2005
Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film festival 2005
Sundance Film festival 2005
Tampa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2005
Tribeca Film Festival 2005