EIGHT CAST
MELA HUDSON
SARA
Mela won the People's Choice Award at the 2012 Coleman Awards, Best Supporting Broad at the 2015 Broad Humor Film Festival, Best Actress at the 2016 Women's Only Entertainment Film Festival, an Award of Merit for Leading Actress at the 2016 Best Shorts Competition, and shared Best Ensemble Performance at the 2017 Stories by The River Film Festival. She has also been nominated for a Shorty Award in 2015, Best Actress in a Short Film at the 2016 Hudson Valley International Film Festival, Best Actress at the 2016 North American Awards, and a Sofie Award for Best Actress in a Short Film at the 2016 Short Film Awards.
BAXTER LINN
TOM
Baxter Linn is an American actor, stuntman, and cinematographer. He has an extensive background in martial arts, fight choreography, and athletic competition on a national level. He is also a cinematographer and DP, and runs a production business under the name of Baxter Linn Productions. His production work ranges from narrative and documentary, to commercial and industrial.
NASTASHA STRANG
SARA'S MOTHER
Nastasha just wrapped filming on Quantico. She’s proud to add that credit to a growing list of over 50, including, "Such A Funny Life" and "Conspiracy X". Classically trained, Nastasha has played roles from Shakespeare to Molière to Tennessee Williams. She credits her growing success in part to training as she has studied with the industry’s heavy hitters: Larry Moss, Bob Krakower, and Patsy Rosenberg. Most recently Nastasha won the Best Ensemble Award for the play “The Better Man” at the Unchained Festival. Also her short film “Family First” which she wrote, directed, produced, and acted in made the top 21 films for the 21 Film Project.
JACOB A. WARE
SARA'S FATHER
Jacob A. Ware is a Brooklyn-based actor who has appeared on such shows as Boardwalk Empire, Shades of Blue, Law&Order:SVU, Blue Bloods, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. This year along with having made his Tribeca Film Festival debut on the series Woman of a Certain Age, Jacob can also be seen in the upcoming features Sender (dir. Anthony Arkin) and Drinksgiving.
DANE WEST
YOUNG BRIAN
Dane West, 7, is an actor, model, voice-over artist, a beginning pianist and in his first year of Krav-maga / martial arts. Living in New York with his family, Dane can be seen in various short and feature films, commercials, PSAs, print advertisements and web-series.
LEE J. KAPLAN
BRIAN
Selected NYC credits: Off-Broadway - "Penny Penniworth," "Bully" (Awarded Best Direction at FringeNYC). New York Theatre - "Overruled", Shiyr Productions Film/TV - "Attempt to Rise," "Work in Progress," "Grand Theft Auto V," "Saving Unicorns," "Justice Woman." Voiceover - Baskin-Robbins, Nissan, Pep Boys, Little Debbie, Tommy Hilfiger. National and Regional campaigns. Awards - "Best Film Premiere" for "Attempt to Rise" at the Hudson Valley International Film Festival; "Best Dramedy Actor" for "Justice Woman" at the Rome Web Awards. Training - William Esper Conservatory Graduate.
MOLLY JANE MCCARTHY
YOUNG SARA
Molly Jane McCarthy, 6, is an actress, model, singer and beginning pianist. Living in Massachusetts with her parents and twin brothers, Molly can be seen in various films, commercials, stage productions and print advertisements from all over the United States
TOMMY BEARDMORE
WILLIAM
Tommy Beardmore is an award-winning American actor, producer, writer, and filmmaker based out of New York City. He is best known for his breakout role playing the lead in the 2015 festival favorite dark comedy The Life & Death of an Unhappily Married Man which won over 20 awards including 10 for Best Film on its year-long 50 city international festival tour. Tommy was named "Actor of the Year" at Twister Alley Film Festival, "Best Actor" at Austin Revolution Film Festival, and was a two-time "Best Actor" nominee at both Eyecatcher Film Fest and North Hollywood Cinefest for his work.
JEFFREY ALAN SOLOMON
HARRY
Jeffrey Alan Solomon is a forty year veteran of show business. Jeffrey began acting as a child in modified adult musical camp productions. He played the Artfull Dodger in Oliver, Sandor in Bells Are Ringing, and Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof that culminated with meeting and being acknowledged by Adolf Green and Betty Comden after they saw Jeffrey perform in Fiddler. At age eleven, Jeffrey was playing guitar and singing fronting party bands and getting paid to perform. In 1979, Jeffrey got two record deal offers from RCA boutique label, Salsoul Records. Jeffrey continued to work on his music writing and performing on two country singles that charted nationally on the Cashbox hot 100 country singles list. Jeffrey also had a publishing deal with Nickel Publishing in Nashville TN and an indie record
deal with a Pennsylvania based indie label called Long Pond Music. Jeffrey continues to be in volved in music working with recording artist Tom Dobson.
MARIA HUYGHUE
KELLY
Maria