Made-Up at the Atlanta Film Festival

�Made-Up, � a mockumentary, hit the screen in June as part of the Atlanta Film and Video Festival. A comedy about our cultural obsession with youth and beauty and an examination of the creative process, the award winning film has a number of Atlanta connections.

The film is the directorial debut of Actor Tony Shalhoub (�Big Night, � �Men in Black, � �The Man Who Wasn�t There�). The film�s Atlanta connections are far and wide. Three actors from local improv theatre, Whole World, are featured. Jim Issa, Lance Krall and Kalen Conover, now in Hollywood, play a three-man crew filming the mockumentary Two of the film�s Executive Producers, Lois and Bob Weiner, are from Atlanta, as are the Co-Executive Producers Susan and David Kolb. Shalhoub�s sister Susan Larkin, an Atlanta based professional actress, (Theater in the Square, Alliance Theater Company, Atlanta Lyric Music Theater, Theater of the Stars) plays Shalhoub�s on screen sister.

The film won the Juried �Independent Voice Award� at the Santa Barbara Festival and the audience award at SXSW.