2002 POWER UP FILM GRANT RECIPIENT
A misfit in her world, dismissed
by her mother and sister, is determined to find her own wings
and escape.
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POWER UP presents FLY CHERRY
Sharon Lawrence Shirley Knight
Production Designer Christina Hulen
Costume Designer Galladrial Mattei
Composer Christopher Libertino
Sound Design & Editing By Paula Fairfield Carla Murray
Editor Tatiana S. Riegel
Director Of Photography Andrij Parekh
Executive Producers Stacy Codikow Amy Shomer
Produced By Cristal Rivera-Mitchell
Written By Michele Greene
Directed By Jessica Sharzer
Writer Michele Greene
is a native Angeleno with a Mexican-Okie hybrid heritage, Michele
Greene is an Emmy-nominated actress whose work in the television
series, L.A. Law is now seen in seventy-nine countries. Greene
is an accomplished singer/songwriter as well and is signed to
Appleseed Recordings.
Her debut CD, Ojo de Tiburón was released in June of
2002 and has been garnering excellent reviews in both the North
American and Latin press, as well as air-play around the country.
She
sings regularly in Los Angeles and will be appearing at the
Eco-Maya benefit at the historic Mayan Theatre on November 20th,
2002 . She and her band are also preparing for their first tour
of the United Kingdom in early spring of 2003.
A classically trained actress, Greene earned her BFA at the
University of Southern California Theatre Arts Conservatory
.
She continues to work in television, film and theatre. In the
spring of 2002 she appeared in the L.A. Law reunion movie on
NBC. She recently starred with Matthew Modine in a film for
the USA network entitled Redeemer as well as the PAX TV movie,
Flash Flood. She is currently working on a feature film script
, a television pilot and a children's book in Spanish entitled,
Coyote en la Cocina.
Greene is an animal lover, an excellent equestrienne
and a novice surfer.
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UPDATE SUMMER 2005
Jessica
wrote and directed SPEAK for Showtime Networks. It premiered
at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. She
is currently writting and directing the DUSTY SPRINGFIELD biopic
for Universal Pictures.
Michelle
contiues to record music and perform in Live concerts
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Official Selection of the
2003 USA
– Dallas Short Film Festival FINALIST BEST
SHORT
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Berlin Lesbian Film festival 2004
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival 2003
Cleveland International Film Festival 2003
DC Reel Affirmations 2004
Girlfest Hawaii 2004
International Family Film Festival 2003
Lehigh Valley Queer Film Festival 2003
Michigan Womyn’s Festival 2003
Newport Beach Film Festival 2003
New Orleans Film Festival 2003
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2003
OUTFEST Los Angeles 2003
OUTFEST San Diego 2003
Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts 2003
Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival 2003
Seeing Queerly - Denver G&L Film Festival 2004
Tucson Lesbian Looks Film Festival 2004
USA – Dallas Short Film Festival 2003
Director Jessica
Sharzer
holds an MFA in Film & Television from NYU Tisch School
of the Arts (2002) and
a Masters degree in Slavic Languages & Literature
from
UC Berkeley (1997).
Her Thesis film, The Wormhole, received the Student Academy
Award Gold Medal in narrative, making it eligible for
the 2003 Academy Awards. The Wormhole also received the
NYU $10,000 First Prize from the King Family Foundation
– as well as grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
the Dennis Riese Foundation and Eastman Kodak. The Wormhole
has screened in New York at the Tribeca Film Festival,
Symphony Space, American Museum of the Moving Image, and
in Los Angeles at the DGA, Warner Bros. Studios and the
Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Wormhole is now beginning
the film festival circuit in the U.S. and abroad. It recently
garnered the Audience Choice Award in Nantucket and the
Best of the Festival Award at the Palm Springs International
Festival of Short Films.
In graduate school, Ms. Sharzer directed three additional
shorts: The Birthday Gift (1997), Basic Training (1998)
and Nomi’s Bat Mitzvah (2000). Nomi’s Bat
Mitzvah – now distributed by Hypnotic – has
been screened at international festivals including Palm
Beach , Palm Springs , Tahoe, Boston , Toronto , Deauville
and Hong Kong . Sundance Channel included Nomi in a one-hour
program entitled She Said Cinema.
Ms. Sharzer’s screenplay Pretty Lies has been optioned
by InFilm Productions and is slated to shoot in early
2003. In the meantime, Ms. Sharzer is writing an adaptation
of Turgenev’s First Love for producer Kevin Misher
(The Scorpion King) at Universal Pictures.
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