Praise for HER LOVER HER LOVER is an evocative short pitting Sandy and Cecil, two new parents, against the past they shared, the secrets that haunt them, and the choices that brought them to their new life. Mary Healy brings a heartfelt yearning to the role of SANDY, striving to understand the effects on her life of her mother’s decisions about her lover, her unborn-child, and her life. Michael Emery is emotional and steely in turns as the lover who fears telling too much about the past and jeopardizing his future. Viewers are left wanting more and wondering what choices they might make in a similar situation. HER LOVER is a cautionary tale, a too real allegory, and a haunting expression of closeness, which brings a beautiful cinematic depth of technique in rich color and drama, to spotlight multi-layered familial emotions of deception, tension, and fear. Our brilliant cast navigates the delicate present while besieged by the treachery of memory and the past.
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FPP Projects
HER LOVER , the short film- post production PRESS RELEASE
HER LOVER , the feature - pre-production
THE DAY ELVIS DIED - pre production
BIO: Elizabeth Stuelke is an early career, over-40 female Director. She strives to make evocative work spotlighting female-driven stories of family connection, loss, and generational trauma to promote positive change in the lives of those most affected. Her first film, HER LOVER, shot in April, 2024, is a short, proof-of-concept and has won Best Cinematography at TINFF, and Best Psychological Film and Best Micro Budget Short at the Milan Indie Film festival. As well as Official Selection at RIBFF and Culver City. And it will have it's NYC premiere of the short of the NYWIFT New Works Lab Showcase in January. She started her production company, Fuzzy Pancakes Productions, LLC, while developing this project. She has recently completed Sundance Collab programs: Visual Story Telling: Shot, Image, Camera with Peter Markham, and Directing Actors with Tessa Blake. As writer/producer she has been a participant at Stowe Story Labs, Kenyon Review, WIFV DC, NYWIFV, and has worked with executives Steve Douglas-Craig, Grahame Wood (Maclachlan Wood), and at Rocaberti Writers Retreat, with Chris Deckard (Fictional Entity). Elizabeth is passionate about story and compelled to spotlight important issues in creative ways.
Here is my acting reel, including the IndieX Film Festival, Actors Ensemble award-winning performance
in Wailing, 2021.
