Chicago – Filmmaker Deborah Puette has an upcoming World Premiere on April 6th, 2025, at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. “Such a Pretty Girl” is a short film, told in real time over an extraordinary six minutes, when a mother’s decision is a hopefully the correct one. For screening times, click Sapg.
The short is told in real time in over six minutes. Meg (Sarah Drew) is in her childhood home being a caregiver for her father Frank (Harry Groener). When her 12-year-old uncovers a forgotten relic, Meg must decide quickly who she will protect … her parent or her child.
’Such a Pretty Girl,’ Written and Directed by Deborah Puette
Photo credit: SuchAPrettyGirl.com
Deborah Puette made her professional stage debut in Chicago, and won a Jeff Award here for Best Actress. After expanding her career in Los Angeles she has had recurring and guest star roles on hit shows for Netflix,...
The short is told in real time in over six minutes. Meg (Sarah Drew) is in her childhood home being a caregiver for her father Frank (Harry Groener). When her 12-year-old uncovers a forgotten relic, Meg must decide quickly who she will protect … her parent or her child.
’Such a Pretty Girl,’ Written and Directed by Deborah Puette
Photo credit: SuchAPrettyGirl.com
Deborah Puette made her professional stage debut in Chicago, and won a Jeff Award here for Best Actress. After expanding her career in Los Angeles she has had recurring and guest star roles on hit shows for Netflix,...
- 4/5/2025
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Films that build cultural bridges and have great stories are few, and the new release “Cash for Good” scores in both categories. Written, Co-Directed and featuring Deborah Puette, the film was produced in part through Chariot Entertainment and producer Ahmos Hassan. Puette and Hassan talked to Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com.
The film follows Grace (Deborah Puette), an Army widow hiding a dark secret and fighting to support herself and her young son (Sawyer Gacka) while clinging to her recent sobriety. With Christmas fast approaching, she takes a job at the local pawn shop owned by the town’s only Muslim family. Grace connects to the owner’s son, Hasan (Farshad Farahat), a man with a secret of his own.
Cash for Gold
Photo credit: Freestyle Digital Media
Rating: 3.5/5.0
This is a sincere American story about how the melting pot interrelates in smaller towns in these United States. Deborah Puette is spot-on as Grace,...
The film follows Grace (Deborah Puette), an Army widow hiding a dark secret and fighting to support herself and her young son (Sawyer Gacka) while clinging to her recent sobriety. With Christmas fast approaching, she takes a job at the local pawn shop owned by the town’s only Muslim family. Grace connects to the owner’s son, Hasan (Farshad Farahat), a man with a secret of his own.
Cash for Gold
Photo credit: Freestyle Digital Media
Rating: 3.5/5.0
This is a sincere American story about how the melting pot interrelates in smaller towns in these United States. Deborah Puette is spot-on as Grace,...
- 2/3/2025
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
GLAAD and The Black List today announced the screenwriters and film and TV projects named to The 2022 GLAAD List of the most promising LGBTQ-inclusive scripts that have yet to be produced.
The feature writers chosen are Nik Dodani (Blue Boy), Roberto Fatal (Electric Homies), Josh Feldman (First Language), Sav Rodgers and Taylor Gates, Andres Perez-Duarte (Jorge in Paradise), Jett Garrison (Quick Quick Slow), Justin Geldzahler (The Quiet Kind), Rain Valdez and Rachel Leyco, Elise H. Greven (Silent Spring), Zeke Smith (Wasps!), Karina Ansley (We Are Okay) and Q. Allan Brocka (The Young Punks).
The writers whose pilots were selected included Jose Useche (30 Days in Bayside), Noni Salma (Badass), W.A.W. Parker (The Baron), Nova Cypress Black (Blackseed), Deborah Puette (Blaze), Dana Aliya Levinson (Fraud), Jeff Locker (Spesh) and Frank Paiva (The Tell-Us-You’re-Gay Committee).
GLAAD this year expanded...
The feature writers chosen are Nik Dodani (Blue Boy), Roberto Fatal (Electric Homies), Josh Feldman (First Language), Sav Rodgers and Taylor Gates, Andres Perez-Duarte (Jorge in Paradise), Jett Garrison (Quick Quick Slow), Justin Geldzahler (The Quiet Kind), Rain Valdez and Rachel Leyco, Elise H. Greven (Silent Spring), Zeke Smith (Wasps!), Karina Ansley (We Are Okay) and Q. Allan Brocka (The Young Punks).
The writers whose pilots were selected included Jose Useche (30 Days in Bayside), Noni Salma (Badass), W.A.W. Parker (The Baron), Nova Cypress Black (Blackseed), Deborah Puette (Blaze), Dana Aliya Levinson (Fraud), Jeff Locker (Spesh) and Frank Paiva (The Tell-Us-You’re-Gay Committee).
GLAAD this year expanded...
- 4/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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