POWER UP presents LITTLE BLACK BOOT
Carmen Plumb, Dania Ramirez and Jane Lynch
Casting Directors  Cathy Henderson
& Dori Zuckerman, C.S.A.
Costume Designer Rima Freeman
Production Designer Jenn Bastian
Music by Jeff Rona Editor Annette Davey 
Director of Photography Tony Molina
Executive Producers  Stacy Codikow  Amy Shomer
Produced by  Honey Labrador Christopher Racster
Written by Cherien Dabis Directed by Colette Burson   
                     
 

Director Colette Burson’s first feature film Coming Soon (2000) was shot in 22 days and starred Mia Farrow, Bonnie Root and Spalding Gray.   Among many excellent reviews the New York Times called the film “unusually intelligent” and the Hollywood Reporter praised the “confidence and accomplished ease” of the direction.  The film was later honored as a “contemporary teen classic” by New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image. As a screenwriter Colette most recently wrote Tastes Like Popular for New Line Entertainment/Mutual Film (attached to direct). 

Previous to that she was commissioned to write a television pilot for Fox (Life in the Sticks), and hired to direct an episode of the comic-drama Manchester Prep.  Other screenplays include an adaptation of the book Franco-American Dream for Fox 2000, Dish for Paramount/Lakeshore Entertainment, My Plastic Jesus for Rigas Entertainment and Little Ones for Bandeira Films.

Colette recently returned from a year in Mexico where she studied Spanish and wrote two new screenplays, Permanent, and Kick.   Next up Colette will write the original script Wedding Daze, based on a romantic comedy pitch she sold to Mark Damon Productions, and also work on a new pilot she has been commissioned to develop by Fox. 


Writer Cherien Dabis's short films - At Last (2002), Mirage (2002) and Nadah (2002) – have screened at international festivals including New York, Berlin, Toronto and Rotterdam.

Dabis is currently in post-production on her latest short film Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother, a dark comedy starring Jane Lynch (A Mighty Wind, Best in Show) and Jacob Vargas (Traffic, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion). She is also working toward production on her first feature film Woman at Point Zero, based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi.

Currently finishing her graduate work in Film at Columbia University where she received top honors with a Divisional Research Assistantship, Dabis is the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies’ Film and Fiction Scholarship and the prestigious New York Women in Film and Television Scholarship. She holds a BA with honors in journalism and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati.

UPDATE SUMMER 2005

Colette is the proud mom of Tennessee a girl who is one year old.

Cherien is a staff writer on the L WORD.

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