MARS
MARS (they/them) is an award-winning actor, writer & producer. As a child, MARS & their family immigrated to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, as Jewish refugees from Russia. Dedicated to smashing the patriarchy, MARS Co-Founded Besties Make Movies. MARS has received several Best Actress nominations for their work in the award-winning short film JONES. Their film 2 WEEKS about asexuality premiered at the Oxford Film Festival, screened at NFMLA and won Best LGBT Short at Indie Short Fest and IndieX Film Fest. APPETITE, a short film they wrote and starred in, premiered at the Oxford Film Festival. The feature film Triple Threat in which they play one of the lead roles is now streaming on Peacock after taking home several awards on the festival circuit! This summer you can catch them as Jeanine in AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent. Their script ZASHA, which they co-wrote, has been doing festivals and recently won Best Horror Short at the Oregon Short Film Festival.
The Incoherents
as MoonBeamFour forty-somethings each mired in some sort of mid life malaise reunite their 90's indie rock...
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Landing Up
as Lara/PeaceWhen a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men...
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Landing Up
as Young GirlWhen a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men...
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as MaggieClose friendships are slowly pulled apart as a once shared dream is abandoned by one in favor of...
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2 Weeks
as TanyaWhen 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized...
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A NY Thing
as Girlfriend (as Margarita Zhitnikova)Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls...
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JONES
as JONESJones' inner demons threaten to take over her life unless she outruns the voices in her head and...
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Made to Penetrate
as EmilyPatty meets Dave at the bar. Later that night, she and her friends follow him out and "fuck him up".
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Appetite
as TanyaJack, an aging hedge fund CEO, hesitantly acquiesces when Ruby, his wife of 25 years, suggests...
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Presumed Innocent
as JeanineA horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is...
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