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News Release Made-Up
wins Film shot in Jamaica Plain Made-Up takes top prize March 4, 2002 - Made-Up, an independent film shot in Jamaica Plain, MA, was awarded the Independent Voice award for the best independent feature film at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last night. The jury-awarded prize was presented at the Festival's closing ceremony, held at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, CA Made-Up is the debut effort of Sister Films, Inc., a production company formed by screenwriter and actress Lynne Adams and her sister, actress Brooke Adams, with a predominantly Boston-based crew. The film also marks the directing debut of Tony Shalhoub, a well-known actor and husband of Brooke Adams. Co-producers for the film are Lynne and Brooke Adams, together with Boston-based independent film producer Mark Donadio. The film is a coming of middle age comedy, in which the middle-aged Elizabeth (Brooke Adams) is transformed when her daughter Sara (played by Eva Amurri) gives her a cosmetic makeover. The proceedings are recorded by Elizabeth's sister Kate (Lynne Adams), who is creating a documentary on women and aging for her video production class. Then Elizabeth's new "younger" self meets an attractive new man (Shalhoub), but which Elizabeth is he attracted to? Made-Up was filmed in
the winter of 2001 in Jamaica Plain at the home that Lynne Adams
shares with her husband George Fifield, founder and director of
Boston Cyberarts. The film had its world première at the Santa
Barbara Festival last weekend, and will be screened at the South by
Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, on March 10 and at the Taos
Talking Picture Festival in April. |