sheetal sheth Archives

Comisery Week: Interview with Sheetal Sheth, the Pragmatist
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and on Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Richard Anderson, the Man with Two Roles
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and on Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm[...]
Comisery Week: Interview with Amy Hill
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It's a response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not working on screenplays[...]
Comisery Week – Interview with Jennifer Field, the Alien
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service AsianAmericanMovies.com and on Amazon Video. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm[...]
Comisery Launches – How to Accidentally Make a Movie
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It's a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown. "Comisery" key art, courtesy of Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not working on screenplays and film work, I'm a correspondent for Bleeding Cool[...]
Comisery Week – Zoom Filmmaking in the Pandemic
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Nat Ho, Sheetal Sheth, Richard Anderson, and Verton Banks It was a screwball comedy response to the pandemic and living under lockdown It premieres on September 1st on Quentin's streaming service Asian American Movies and on Amazon Video. Comisery poster, Margin Films Full disclosure: when I'm not[...]
Comisery Week – Zoom Filmmaking in the Pandemic
It stars Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Amy Hill, Jennifer Field, Sheetal Sheth, Nat Ho, Richard Anderson, and Verton R Banks I was the co-creator, screenwriter and co-director with Quentin We made it with literally no budget and released each episode days after we filmed It was just the actors and us in front of our[...]
EXCLUSIVE: Trailer For Asian-American Sci-Fi Comedy Comisery Is Here
The film stars Amy Hill (Magnum PI, 50 First Dates), Bee Vang (Gran Torino), Sheetal Sheth (Hummingbird), Singaporean pop star Nat Ho, Jennifer Field (9-1-1), Harrison Xu (Shameless), Verton R Banks (Dollface) and Richard Anderson Asian dance/rock band The Slants provide the soundtrack for the film Get your first look at Comisery down below.   Comisery Should[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Our last chance to bring Bee Vang, Amy Hill, Harrison Xu, Nat Ho and Sheetal Sheth together Jennifer Field couldn't make it because she was rehearsing another webseries that day and I had written the script to account for that Her character Camila had to be back for the end, so we would shoot her[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Amy Hill, Bee Vang, Harrison Xu, Sheetal Sheth, and Nat Ho are all here for three big scenes that make up the episode. Comisery poster from Margin Films Richard Anderson's Comisery Exit Week 7 marks Richard Anderson's last day in the production We were rehearsing and shooting in a single 3-hour block on Wednesday because Richard was[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Harrison, Bee Vang, Sheetal Sheth, and Nat Ho in a group chat The challenge in writing this is how to make it compelling? How to keep it interesting? We have no fight scenes, no explosions, no chase scenes, just four people talking about various types of uncertainty Kel about his identity and whether he's the[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
Sheetal Sheth's sardonic, no-nonsense skepticism brings another color to the story Bee Vang plays Skylar's deep ambivalence as a tightrope act Amy Hill continues to be effortless Jennifer Hill still impresses me with the way she balances alienness, bitchiness, and bits of insecurity that leak through the façade. The end of this episode is the game-changer[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
It highlights Sheetal Sheth and Nat Ho after their brief introductions in Episode 3 Bee Vang is back as Skylar, the character around whom all the craziness revolves, as is Harrison Xu as his friend Kel, the catalyst for kicking off the whole crazy plot of the series Sheetal and Nat's characters get drawn into[...]
Comisery poster from Margin Films
It also introduces Sheetal Sheth as Anika and Nat Ho as Nate, the other members of this madcap circle of friends dealing with an alien virus invasion during lockdown. A Crew and Writer's Room of Literally Two Ours is an 8-episode web series shot using zoom with everyone in lockdown, and literally no budget All the actors[...]
Comisery: How We Put Together A SciFi Webseries in a Week
By Thursday we had our full cast of six actors – Amy Hill, Sheetal Sheth, Bee Vang, Jennifer Field, Harrison Xu, and Nat Ho Their roles would be written especially for them, and these would be unique, very specific, and wacky characters they would be playing All in a week And a week after that, we[...]
Sci-Fi Comedy Web Series Pilot Comisery Heads Your Way Memorial Day
Did we mention that it's also a much-needed comedy? Because that's what we can expect when Quentin Lee (White Frog, The People I've Slept With, Comedy InvAsian) and Adi Tantimedh's ("The Ravi PI" series from Simon & Schuster) pilot for Comisery streams on the Asian American Movies' Facebook page as well as at the pilot's[...]