Business Wire Friday, October 2, 1998 Director Jeremy Workman Completes Short Film "Claire Makes It Big"

 

Dateline: Los Angeles

Oct. 2, 1998--Jeremy Workman, son of filmmaker Chuck Workman, has completed directing an anti-discrimination public service film for the Knoll Foundation through his father's Calliope Films company. The short dramatic film, "Claire Makes It Big," stars Mara Hobel ("Roseanne") and features Paige Turco ("Party of Five") and Clancy Brown with a cameo performance by director Peter Bogdanovich. The 30-minute film is about a "full-figured" young actress who after losing a big movie part to a pretty starlet steals the negative and replaces the starlet digitally in every scene with herself. "Claire Makes It Big" will play in Los Angeles theaters this year in Academy Award qualification to be entered in the Best Live Action Short competition. Chuck Workman won his Oscar for that same category in 1987 for "Precious Images," the short done for the DGA. The film will also be entered in various film festivals across the world. Jeremy Workman recently co-directed the award-winning documentary "Who is Henry Jaglom?" currently playing on PBS and soon to be telecast over the Sundance Channel.

 

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