Megan Seely
Writer/director/liz
Megan Seely is an award-winning filmmaker exploring life through dark comedy. Beyond writing, directing, and acting in My Loyal Audience, she co-wrote The Mad Whale, starring Camilla Belle, Summer Phoenix, Dominic Rains, and James Franco. As an actress, she can be seen in the upcoming musical feature Nanay Ko and with Helena Howard in Twist (2019 Tribeca Film Festival), on which she also served as co-producer. Megan received her M.F.A. from USC and is currently in prep for Puddysticks, her feature dark comedy.
Mollie Wartelle
Production Designer
Mollie Wartelle is a production designer and former girl detective from New Orleans, Louisiana. She designs narrative and commercial work, including Megan’s last film, My Loyal Audience. She loves that to make a film, you must build an invented world in reality, capture it with people pretending inside it, then destroy it. She has degrees in Film and French from Tulane University.
Alex Coco
Producing Team
Alex Coco is an LA based filmmaker. In May 2016, he graduated from USC’s Graduate Film program, where he was nominated for a Kodak Student Film Award. Currently, he is working as the assistant to the director, Sean Baker and had the great privilege of working on The Florida Project. While Mr. Baker’s next film comes into view, he has turned his sights toward other indie features such as Puddysticks.
Paisley Smith
producing team
Paisley Smith is a Canadian filmmaker and virtual reality creator based in Los Angeles, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. She uses interactive technology to tell important stories that need to be felt and experienced.
Smith is the director of Unceded Territories, a VR collaboration with First Nations artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, that explores the connection between climate change and colonization by pitting a destructive "Super Predator" versus the environment. Unceded Territories had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival Immersive 2019.
Smith also directed Homestay, a VR documentary that deals with cultural understanding and loss. Homestay is nominated for "Best XR for Change" at Games for Change festival 2019.
She is excited to bring her experience in the *future of storytelling* to Puddysticks!
Kate Geller
Casting Director
A Casting Director formerly of Chrystie Street Casting, her current & recent projects include: GIVING BIRTH TO A BUTTERFLY, DIVIDED BY, PINK MIST, LONG WEEKEND, HYSTERIA, MOMSTER, EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE, THE SUNLIT NIGHT, THE JONES PARTY, DIETLAND (AMC), OTHERHOOD, LOST TRANSMISSIONS, THE SCOTTISH PLAY, BLACK ON THE VINE, THE GIANT, RUNAWAY, 18 TO PARTY, OMNIBOAT, KINGFISH, numerous shorts, CHAINED FOR LIFE, THE INCREDIBLE JESSICA JAMES, LIZZIE, DON'T THINK TWICE, JONATHAN, SOLLERS POINT, AMATEUR, TULLY.
