Photo Finish New Jersey Premiere at Garden State Film Festival: A Comedy of Love vs. Viagra

Feb. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- A very married middle-aged frump of a woman is caught on camera in mid-kiss with her new boy toy, the photo turning out ironically to be her ticket to a rehabilitated marriage.

Such is the logline of Photo Finish, the joint effort of Producer/Co-writer Beth Rosen and Director/Co-writer Mort Scharfman, which presents Peggy McGuinness, Danny Boushebel, Bobby Ballack and Michele Meises, in a comedic if hard look at the age old middle-age couple crises of Libidoitis, the universal disorder which no amount of Viagra will cure, so much as plain old love and attention.

The twenty-three-minute home grown short comedy film will be screened in The Garden State Film Festival on March 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm at Chico’s House of Jazz, 631 Lake Ave, Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712.

Photo Finish is the team's first motion picture project. It made its debut at The Sunscreen Film Festival and was subsequently screened at The Big Apple Film Festival. The Garden State Film Festival will mark the New Jersey Premiere of the film.

Beth Rosen, whose indie-production company, Signature Beth Productions LLC, financed the film, and Mort Scharfman, first met when Rosen, a lawyer by trade, took a course in comedy writing at NYU taught by Scharfman, an Emmy Award winning TV writer, now a professor at The New School University. Their first endeavors were sitcom pilot scripts, one of which attracted the interest of a well-known actor as star of the vehicle.

Rosen's resume includes in the way of the literary and popular arts a number books, including co-authorship of a number one best selling book, Living Proof: Celebrating  the Gifts that Came Wrapped in Sandpaper, with Secret star and co-author of Chicken Soup for the African American Soul, Lisa Nichols. She has worked as an international corporate and insolvency lawyer at top  New York City law firms such as Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP and Shearman and Stearling, LLP.  Rosen is now a comedy writer, screenwriter, film producer, actress, illustrator, graphic designer, healer, professor of yoga and a lawyer. She is also a radio personality with her own show, Spotlight Radio on Rhino on Air, by the arts for the arts, and she teaches an online movie making and script writing course called The Back Door to Hollywood. She has two sitcoms in circulation and is currently in development on several other television pilots and screenplays.  

Scharfman's credits include work as Writer/Executive Story Consultant for Toy-Tandem Productions  sitcoms (Norman Lear, Bud Yorkin) as well as Writer/Executive Script Supervisor for D.L. Taffner Prods, plus specials starring  or featuring Jackie Gleason, Julie Andrews, Bob Hope. He is the recipient of an Emmy Award for comedy writing and a two-time nominee in that same category.  Also to his credit are two short documentaries on childhood poverty and disease in third-world countries, hosted by the late Katherine Hepburn and Angela Landsbury, respectively. Mort currently has two sitcoms pilots and a feature length screenplay in circulation and in the WGA contest.

Who: Signature Beth Productions LLC
What: Home Grown Short Category
Where: Chico’s House of Jazz, 631 Lake Ave, Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712
When: March 24, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.

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Beth Rosen is a #1 best selling author, film producer, screenwriter, radio personality, actress, professor of yoga, healer, illustrator, graphic designer and songwriter. She offers an online movie making course called "The Back Door to Hollywood" and enlightenment tips and products to help you realize your dreams with effortless intention, ease and grace at http://www.bethrosen.com