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Posts Tagged ‘Paris Pickard’

The Moon's Shadow

Friday, June 12th, 2009

By Janelle K. Eagle

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Our Hot Stars exchange glances

Tuesday morning at 9:30am does not normally mean decked out lesbians with beer. At least for most of us…

Nonetheless, the second week of filming for “A Marine Story” started at Moonshadow Lounge in NoHo bright and early on Tuesday. Amazing volunteers from within the WeHo community (and our Facebook fanpage!) gathered in their normal Friday night regalia, while sipping coffee and donated doughnuts courtesy of Rockstar Jen Klein.

You’d think the early call would mean a stretch for these women, but let me tell you, these women looked FLY that morn. A casting director couldn’t have asked for a more diverse, HOT group of women to be the background for a lesbian bar scene. And how lucky were we that they all volunteered their hotness for the greater good of storytelling?

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The Extras Dance!

It was refreshing to note that we had fog machines this time instead of having to fill an entire bar with cigarette smoke (as compared to last week). Even though we didn’t get real alcohol, we did get refreshing “fakes” such as club soda and ice tea to tide us over. And the best part, we got to end the shoot with a real dance party. And dance we did. Dedicated extras Jessica Bair and Sami Hepburn even “artistically stretched” themselves for a hot makeout session for camera.

The producers are incredible appreciative of the volunteers that came out to play with us Tuesday. Your dedication to helping us tell this important story will really make the difference. Real Lesbians in a film about the LGBT community. As it should be.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes vlog from that day’s shoot!

All about Paris

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

parisglamPARIS PICKARD (actor/producer): Paris has always found herself with one foot in front of the camera and one foot behind it. She won the New York State Finals of the National Shakespeare Recitation Competition and went on to perform Cleopatra’s death scene at Carnegie Hall in New York. She has acted in many stage productions including a production of Auntie Mame alongside Oscar winning actress Olympia Dukakis.

After having lived in New York City, Boston, Spain and the Netherlands, Pickard graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in film direction and moved to Hollywood. Here she has been working in production on films like Angels and Demons and the Oscar-nominated Frost/Nixon. Her short film, The Storm has been in more than five film festivals and she has won multiple awards including the Kevin S. Bright Scholarship and the Marcia Robbins-Wilf Women in Film Production Award.