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Directed by Richard Berman & Dawn Westlake
Written/produced by
Dawn Westlake
Director of Photography:
Richard Berman
Edited by the Moser
Brothers
CAST
Milicent-Therese (Mili-Teri)….Dawn
Westlake
Leisle………..…………………………….Sam
English
Dean Iderathernot……..….…………Les
Brewer
Saddam Hussein’s Double………...….Jake
Ethan
Osama B. Laden………..…………………Sam
Ambler
Col. Michel de la Petit Mort........…Dan
MacCannell
FuBar dancers:
Johnny Cross
Aaron Nelms
Joshua MacDonald
Billy Francesca
Drunk Guy @ FuBar…………………Erik
Slaven
CREW
Johnny Cross
Erik Slaven
Jake Wachtel
ART DEPT
B.B.S. logo/Chyrons by The Moser Brothers
Artwork by Ed Rubin
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Dawn
Westlake
Writer/Producer/Co-Director/Mili-Teri
This is Dawn’s third short under her Ron de Caña Productions banner.
Her first film, MINI DRIVER PROJECT, made in Portugal in 2000, has won 8 international
prizes and played in over 70 venues worldwide. In April 2002, it played 3x
per week on the jumbo-tron in Times Square. Her second film, DOTTIE: THE
LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BIG VOICE ©2002, was her first foray into animation.
It won the Grand Prix for Animation at the Kinder Film Festival in Tokyo,
Japan; Best Digital Animation Award at the Downstream Film Fest in Georgia;
the Romania Broadcasters Award in Bucharest, Romania, and
Special Jury Prizes at the Fano International Film Fest in Fano,
Italy, the Festival Internacional de Biarritz, France and the Reel Women's Fest
in LA, along with the audience award at Divercine in Montevideo, Uruguay. Westlake's fourth film, the short doc A LIFE OF DEATH, has won awards in DC,
NYC, LA, Iowa City, Boulder, and Fano, Italy, and was nominated for the
Taipei Golden Horse. Her latest film, THE PAWN (c)2004, has won 8 awards,
including a prestigious jury prize from JVC in Tokyo, Japan. Westlake was named a Platinum Filmmaker
by CANON USA at DV Expo/West in Dec. 2002.
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Richard Berman
Co-Director/Director of Photography
Richard was born in South Africa and immigrated to Texas with his family in 1984. After
getting his degree in film at The University of Texas at Austin, Richard moved to Los Angeles to pursue his directing and
producing career. Richard has worked with such people as Academy Award
winning Production Designer Ken Adam, Directors Norman Jewison, Edward
Zwick, Barry Sonnenfeld, Sam Raimi, Michael Bay, Janusz Kaminski and Executive
Producers Dan Melnick, Lynda Obst, Patrick Markey and Barry Waldman.
Richard is also an accomplished still photographer, working in color
landscapes, black and white, photojournalism and celebrity portraits. He
has photographed such household names as Elton John, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,
Sheryl Crow, Shaquille O’Neal, Nelly, BoysIIMen, Shaggy, and Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, just to name a few. Richard has also
captured images from over 27 countries. Richard’s most recent
directorial effort, Fire
Within, is a feature-length documentary filmed in Spain and Israel, tackling the issue of
co-existence between Jews and Arabs in Israel through the eyes of the
teenagers living it. The film premiered at the prestigious AFI Film
Festival at the Arclight Theatre in Los Angeles in Nov. 2003 and received a rave
review in VARIETY.
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The
Moser Brothers
Editors/Graphic Designers
Thomas and Joel Moser have been making films since they shared a bedroom in
the small town of Moultrie, GA. They first collaborated
with Dawn Westlake as animation directors on her DOTTIE: THE LITTLE GIRL
WITH THE BIG VOICE. Since then, they’ve been named "Filmmakers
to Watch" by ifilm.com for their celebrated live-action short The
Fountain, and they won awards in three categories for The Pitch, a short
produced through the prestigious 48Hr Film Project. As animators, they have
worked for "Camp Chaos"/"Ill-ustrated"
(VH-1) and "Bad Vlad" (Revolution Studios). They directed Dawn
Westlake's latest film, THE PAWN, for which they won Directors' Awards in
NYC and in a cellular film festival, along with a Best Cinematography prize
from a festival in Italyl. Visit their website at http://www.moserbrothers.com
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Sam
English
Leisle
Sam began his career at age 7 in the children’s choir
"Let’s Celebrate", directed by Grammy-winning
singer/songwriter Cindy Jordan. He attended Texas A&M where he was a
member of the Singing Cadets with whom he did 177 concerts worldwide. He
has performed for President and Mrs. George Herbert Walker Bush and Princes
William and Harry of England. In 2001, he won the "Best Young Adult
Actor" award from the IMTA which inspired his move to Hollywood from Texas. Since making his theatrical
debut in this film, Sam can currently be seen in national TV spots and
print ads for Acuvue Contact Lenses.
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Les Brewer
Dean Iderathernot
In between laying down the voice tracks
for this film, he built two satellite trucks from scratch out of two used
humvees. Les has worked in just about every hot spot in the world. When
there is not a pissing match going on between GW Bush and Saddam Hussein,
he is happily based in London. This is Les’ first foray into acting.
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Dan
MacCannell
Col. Michel de la Petit Mort
Dan was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1971. After leaving school at fifteen,
he studied modern history at Birmingham University, England, Cornell
University, and the University of California (where he finally obtained his
B.A. in 1991). He enrolled in UCLA’s Graduate Screenwriting Program
in 1995. MacCannell’s screenplays have won the Jack Nicholson
Screenwriting Prize, the national Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting
Fellowship, and the Harmony Gold Award for Excellence in Screenwriting.
MacCannell’s feature film "Henry the Tenth", a darkly comic
‘epic punkumentary’, written entirely in iambic pentameter,
about the violent overthrow of the House of Windsor, premiered at
MethodFest in Burbank, CA in April 2003. He is currently a doctoral
candidate at Aberdeen University in Scotland.
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Jake
Ethan
Saddam Hussein’s double
Jake is a television news producer
and entertainment reporter based in Los Angeles. His job frequently demands
that he spend long periods of time in South America, covering stories. Jake
is fluent in Japanese and has interviewed countless celebrities, his
favorite being Anthony Hopkins. In
his spare time, he enjoys acting/writing/producing/directing short films
and sketch comedies. For the role of
Saddam’s double, Jake stuffed hardened bagels into his mouth to puff
out his cheeks. Although he has
never eaten a bagel since, he enjoyed the part.
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Sam
Ambler
Osama B. Laden
Sam is an accomplished poet who is currently working on rewriting the Bible
in verse. He is also a founding member of two theatre companies, the Bureau
of Western Mythology in Palo Alto and Bay Theatre Collective in Berkeley,
where he acted, directed, designed sets and posters. He danced for three
years with the Creative Dance Workshop in Palo Alto and also delivered
singing telegrams for Western Union from San Jose to San Francisco for
three years. He sang baritone with the Temescal Gay Men’s Chorus in
Berkeley for eight years and the Pacific Chamber Singers in San Francisco
for four years. Sam worked for fifteen years as the Office Manager of
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and then as the Office Manager at the Geffen
Playhouse in Los Angeles before moving on to Actors’ Equity
Association as Executive Assistant to the Western Regional Director. Sam
co-stars in Dawn Westlake's latest film, THE PAWN, and also wrote the poem
"The Pawnshop" (c)1987, upon which the film is based.
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