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\u200bFilmmaker \u200b Deborah \u200bVoorhees \u200b got her start in films back in 1980 when she relocated to Hollywood to become an actress. \u00a0After appearing in a few films \u200band TV shows, \u200b she auditioned for an unknown film titled RENDITION and read for multiple parts. After the \u200bdirector shuffled around roles, she finally was casted as Tina in the unknown film that ended up being FRIDAY THE 13TH: \u00a0A NEW BEGINNING. \u00a0<\/span> \u200bVOORHEES loves writing. Her screenplay GENEVIEVE was an official selection at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. \u00a0The film is set in the 1800s and is about a 17\u200b-\u200byear\u200b-old Genevieve, who is jilted on her wedding day after she humiliates her husband-to-be by publicly straddling a horse, which in this period is akin to fornicating in public. Her father sends her away to her aunt\u2019s to be prepared for marriage to the man of her father\u2019s \u201cdreams.\u201d When \u200bVOORHEES \u200bwrites and directs a film, she is adamant that the film must have a captivating story with compelling characters that develop throughout the film. \u00a0Having a \u200bSTRONG lead actor is key in her films. Starring in \u200btwo of Voorhees’ Shorts \u200b–and soon to be a feature– is the wonderful Actress Molly Wickwire-Sante. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wickwire-Sante greatly admires working with Voorhees for numerous reasons as she shares, \u201c<\/span>Working with Deborah has been one of the great adventures of my life. The joy she takes in making movies is contagious on and off set and she has this great sparkle of energy that draws people to her, an important skill when you need many talented folks to support your project on a low budget. \u00a0But make no mistake, if Deborah has her hand in a film, a small budget won\u2019t show. \u00a0Whatever work needs to be done, she can do it and will do it until the final product is perfect. \u00a0She has the great and unusual skill of being able to imagine the big picture and serve that vision, even while attending to the tiny endless details that could make a lesser head spin. <\/span><\/i>Fortunately, Deborah is as grounded as she is creative and she will always find the fun in even the hardest work. Make a good joke on set and you will be rewarded with her distinctive, uplifting and lingering laugh. Deborah loves finding the light side of horror, digging into her character\u2019s motivations until the scary and the funny, the dark and the light, and the crazy and the relatable are all on display. \u00a0As an actor, it\u2019s a great challenge to work through all those twists and turns to find the real person behind the terrible deeds. \u00a0She has great compassion for actors, a talent for storytelling, and endless energy to get the work done. \u00a0I can\u2019t wait to be part of her next \u00a0film, “The List\u201d and see how far we can go!\u201d THE LIST is currently in \u200bPRE-\u200bproduction and more information is available on the Voorhees Films website listed below.<\/span><\/p>\n Voorhees Films has made many music videos and shorts including OTHELLO: GOOD NIGHT MY SWEET and HIP HOP HAMLET both which played at the 2016 Elsinore Shakespeare Conference in Denmark and HIP HOP HAMLET was an official selection of Kenneth Branagh\u2019s Shakespeare Film Festival, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. \u00a0<\/span> \u200b<\/span>Voorhees first film, a comedy \u200btitled \u200b BILLY SHAKESPEARE, that she wrote and directed \u200b,\u200b is a quirky, off-beat film that has been compared to the indie hit Waiting for Guffman. \u200bThe film won the Bardie\u200b Award from The Shakespeare Standard. The film has received many stellar reviews including from Broadway World\u2019s Ellen Dostal, \u200bwho writes, \u200b\u201cBILLY SHAKESPEARE is a spicy little independent film by Deborah Voorhees that imagines what might happen if William<\/span> www.voorheesfilmsproduction.com <\/span>
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\n<\/span>As an \u200bactress, Voorhees prepares for her roles by losing herself in the character and allowing the crew around her to disappear. \u00a0Her acting skills won over many Directors and she landed roles in the hit prime time series DALLAS, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, and RIPTIDE. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/images-2-1.jpg\")
\n<\/span>Voorhees admires being an actress, but she fell in love with Directing and Editing and is now \u200bco-producing her own films. In 2010, she started up her own film company Voorhees Films \u200b and has has partnered with Producer, Director, Actor, and Writer Joel \u200bPaul \u200b Reisig. Reisig is a genius when it comes\u200b to producing films and many of his films are available on Netflix, Cable TV, and the DVDs can be found at major retail outlets in store and online. \u00a0Voorhees knew working with Reisig on her films would be ideal due to their common ground of self-taught filmmaking \u200b and \u200bboth had a passion to make films. \u00a0\u200bThe two met at \u200bone of Reisig\u200b’s filmmaking seminars \u200b,\u200b which Voorhees attended \u200b. He saw how driven she was to make films. \u201c<\/span>I met Deborah a bit more than a year ago through one of my Be Your Own Hollywood classes on funding and distribution,<\/span><\/i>\u201d shares Reisig. \u201c<\/span>I could tell right away that she was sharp and ready to adapt to the state of the modern film industry. Since then we’ve become friends. She’s both talented and very kindhearted. \u00a0I can’t believe Jason wanted to kill her!<\/span><\/i>\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/molly-785x307.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>OTHELLO: GOOD NIGHT MY SWEET<\/b>
\n<\/b>A tormented husband becomes obsessed with irrational fears that his seemly loving and loyal wife is having an affair with his beguiling best friend, but is this real or paranoia?<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Deborah Voorhees<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Deborah Voorhees\u200b, adapted from Shakespeare’s Othello\u200b<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Molly Wickwire-Sante, Jason D. Johnson, Jennifer Lewicki<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Another short Voorhees made CATCHING UP has been very well received and has been winning awards as it makes its festival run. The film is a dark, satire, black and white and was<\/span>
\n<\/span>initially written for the stage by New York playwright Tom Sime. \u201c<\/span>Deborah and I worked together at The Dallas Morning News back in the 90s and early oughts<\/span><\/i>,\u201d tells Sime. \u00a0\u201c<\/span>When I started writing plays later, she was curious and asked to look at some scripts. I sent her the play Catching Up and I guess she fell in love with it. We had a good rapport collaborating on the script. She’d work on it, to open it up, make it more visual, and urge me to do the same. We went back and forth, emailing each other new versions. The location, with that chicken coop, turned out to be inspiring. We had a lot of fun working the chickens into the story. Nobody gets killed in the play, but we had to go there for the movie. I’m surprised, though not unpleasantly, that it has found its way onto the horror film festival circuit.\u201d<\/span><\/i>
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\n<\/span>\u200bMOST RECENTLY, THE FILM HAS BEEN NOMINATED AS AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL ART FILM FESTIVAL. Critics have been praising the film, CATCHING UP\u200b.\u200b Film critic Brian Lutes from Creation International Film Festival writes, <\/span>“It\u200b is a charming film. I must say I enjoyed this one. It made me think of a gritty Once Upon a time in Mexico meets Neil Simon\u2019s The Odd Couple<\/span><\/i>.\u201d CATCHING UP won the Award of Excellence at the Hot Springs International Horror Film Festival and is an official selection at Something Wicked Film Festival, Texas Frightmare, Palm Springs International Film Market, Idaho Horror Film Festival and the invites are still coming in from other festivals.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>CATCHING UP<\/b>
\n<\/span>A widowed socialite’s encounter with an ex-con awakens her fascination for murder in this dark Comedy.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Director:<\/b>
\n<\/span>Deborah Voorhees<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Tom Sime<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Molly Wickwire-Sante, Jennifer Lewicki,Jeremiah Z Wood<\/span>
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\n<\/span>\u200bVoorhees was surprised that horror fans so took to murder-obsessed Sally. Because of this, Voorhees decided to move Sally from an infatuation with murder to a full-blown serial killer in Voorhees\u2019 horror comedy THE LIST. \u00a0In this film, Sally creates a list of those who have wronged her and offs them one by one. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508114863841.jpg\")
\n<\/span>Shakespeare tried to make it as a writer in today’s Hollywood rather than Elizabethan England. Quirky characters, compromising situations, and the kind of deadpan humor that fans of<\/span>
\n<\/span>Waiting For Guffman will recognize collide with hilarious moments of camp to create a madcap world in which young Billy just can’t get a break.\u201d <\/span>
\n<\/span>BILLY SHAKESPEARE is currently available for purchase or rental on Amazon. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>BILLY SHAKESPEARE<\/b>
\n<\/span>What if William Shakespeare never existed… until now. Our Modern Bard is caught in a love triangle of confused sexuality, cross dressing, mistaken identity, and bedroom trysts. Does Shakespeare love his lusty best friend, Wilma Hartford, who’s also a drag queen, or his lovely long-time girlfriend Anne Hathaway. This battle to understand Shakespeare’s true heart is a comic romp. All the while, Shakespeare peddles his screenplays in Hollywood. Renaissance and modern sensibilities clash when an all-male stage version of Macbeth and the misogynistic low-budget film “The Taming of the Shrew” open simultaneously. The combustion makes “The Bard,” played by comedic genius Jason D. Johnson, the most controversial screenwriter in Hollywood.<\/span>
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\n<\/b>Deborah Voorhees<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Deborah Voorhees<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Jason D. Johnson, Catharine Pilafas, Phillip David Collins<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Deborah has multiple films early in pre-production,including a couple romantic comedies, thrillers, horror, dark comedies, ghost stories, and even a \u200bfamily \u200b sci-fi film. \u00a0Be sure to keep updated with all her exciting work by going to Voorhees Films website and Facebook page.<\/span><\/p>\n
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