3 Weeks Indie Film Director Showcase Led by Misha Calvert,

3 Weeks Indie Film Director Showcase Led by Misha Calvert, Award-Winning Indie Filmmaker and Showrunner

Our new online showcase class is the perfect way to get coaching by top filmmaker and showrunner Misha Calvert and then showcasing your work to our panel of four FILM Directors in your final week.

Week 1 - Bring your own scene, intro your talent to Misha

Week 2 -  In-depth Coaching of your scene with Misha

Week 3 - Q&A and then Showcase to our FOUR Indie FILM Directors

Our incredible panel includes:

Misha Calvert is an award-winning indie filmmaker and showrunner based in New York. She has created and sold two original series: STRUT (Revry) and ALL HAIL BETH (BRIC TV). She is currently prepping her feminist thriller RAGER as writer-director with Good Question Media attached to produce. She’s slated to direct the contemporary war drama JUMP LINE in 2024, and is writer-director on the climate change action film DIRT AND SKY currently in development. Her latest short film, PINK FLAGS, stars Raye and Sawyer Spielberg and is about to begin festivals.

Rachel Myers is an award-winning filmmaker, Time-Warner-150 Artist and Tribeca alumni. Her film WENDY'S SHABBAT qualified for the Academy Awards and was broadcast on PBS. She is a winner of Ovation, NAACP, Broadway World and Streamy Awards, and inaugural recipient of the Shondaland-Women’s-Directing-Mentorship, Sundance Co-lab, and a nominee for the Lynn Shelton Grant.  

Liz Sargent is a Korean American adoptee whose award-winning work explores themes of adoption, disability and family. Her film TAKE ME HOME won the Julia S. Gouw Fellowship with CAPE and Janet Yang Production in addition to being Academy Award-qualifying. Festivals: Sundance Santa Barbara IFF, SXSW, with wins at LAAPFF Golden Reel Best Short & deadCenter Film Festival (Special Grand Jury Best Film).

Tyler Taormina is a film director based in Los Angeles whose debut film HAM ON RYE premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and went on to receive critical acclaim, including Best Films of the Year from The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Slant Magazine and more. His follow up feature HAPPER'S COMET premiered at the 2022 Berlinale and won the Special Jury Prize at the BAFICI. His latest film, CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT stars Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Francesca Scorsese and more, and is expected to premiere in 2024.

What to Prepare:

For this class, please bring in your own 2-3 page scene of choice that you feel best showcases your strengths as an actor. If you do not have your own scene, you can select a scene from the General Sides database (link located in your Actors Connection account upon registration).

Please email [email protected] your scene choice AS AN ATTACHMENT (file should be labeled YourName_CHARACTER) by 5pm (EST) the DAY BEFORE the event.