NEWS:

(11/29/23) One year later after embarking on our festival circuit journey and we did it!! Thank you HollyShorts! We screened in one of the most iconic locations ever. Quite the end to the year indeed.

(11/26/23) Los Angeles here we come!!! We’ll be screening at the Chinese Theatre at 9:30PM.

(11/24/23) What a perfect way to complete our year of festivals!! We are so excited to be coming back to Los Angeles to screen in the HollyShorts Monthly Series next week!

(11/18/23) Eeeeeeeeee we won!!! Best Comedic Short!! What an honor! What a pleasure! Thank you Hollywood Florida Film Festival, Simona, and Minh for the most magical week, and for this recognition.

(11/05/23) We cannot wait to have our Florida Premiere at the Hollywood Florida Film Festival next week!!!

(10/15/23) We are so excited to be heading to Dallas for the Topaz Film Festival by Women in Dallas!!

(7/15/23) We are thrilled to be heading to Long Island to screen at the Long Island International Film Expo!!

(4/26/23) We are so honored for our NY Premiere of Puppet Seizure to be part of the Coney Island Film Festival!!

(4/13/23) Los Angeles here we come! This will be our California Premiere!

(3/22/23) Eeeeeeee we won!! Jenn and I won Best Director at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival in Atlanta!! (It was serious moments like these where having two directors on set ensured we would get the shots.)

(3/22/23) Congratulations to Sam Pyra for winning Best Cinematography at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival in Atlanta!

(3/21/23) It was such an honor to be nominated for Best Original Music at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival in Atlanta!! I created my character to be an aspiring recording artist so that I could prioritize music equally to filmmaking.

(3/16/23) Our incredibly talented DP Samantha Pyra has been nominated for Best Cinematography for our film Puppet Seizure! Thanks to Sam’s influence and collaboration, the film looks beautiful and seamlessly transitions from intimate moments to over-the-top scenes. Here’s to you, Sam!

(3/14/23) Jenn and I are so honored to be nominated for Best Director for our film Puppet Seizure at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival in Atlanta! Thank you.

(3/10/23) We’ve been selected to screen at the Women’s Comedy Film Festival in Atlanta on 3/19/23!

(2/16/23) WE WON BEST PICTURE AT THE PORTLAND COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL!!!!

(2/10/23) WE’VE BEEN NOMINATED FOR BEST DIRECTOR AT THE PORTLAND COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL!!!

(2/8/23) We’ve been nominated for Best Romantic Comedy at the Portland Comedy Film Festival!!!

(2/6/23) We’re screening at the Portland Comedy Film Festival on February 12th, 2023!!

(1/25/23) I WON BEST ACTING AT THE TEXAS SHORT FILM FESTIVAL!!!!!

(1/21/23) I’VE BEEN NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTING PERFORMANCE AT THE TEXAS SHORT FILM FESTIVAL!

(1/19/23) We’ve been nominated for Best Romantic Comedy at the Texas Short Film Festival!!

(1/17/23) We’re screening at the Texas Short Film Festival in San Antonio on January 21st, 2023!

(11/14/22) WE WON BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY AT THE HOUSTON COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL!!

(11/11/22) We’ve been nominated for Best Romantic Comedy at the Houston Comedy Film Festival!

(11/8/22) WE WON BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY AT THE AUSTIN COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL!!!!!

(11/6/22) I’ve been nominated for Best Acting Performance at the Austin Comedy Film Festival!

(11/4/22) My interview with festival director Mikel Fair on the makings of Puppet Seizure

(10/24/22) We had a blast at our premiere of Puppet Seizure at the All The Laughs Comedy Awards Festival in Atlanta and were honored to be nominated for Best Romantic Comedy!

(10/15/22) We’ve been nominated for Best Romantic Comedy at the Austin Comedy Film Festival!

(10/1/22) We’ve been nominated for BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY!!!!

(9/15/22) We’ve been selected to screen at the Houston Comedy Film Festival!

(7/20/20) Despite Covid19 disrupting our entire post production on PUPPET SEIZURE, we have forged ahead and now expect to complete the film by the end of this year. Looking forward to sharing it with you all!

(1/15/20) We are so excited to finally have the trailer to our short film PUPPET SEIZURE ready to share with the world! We are raising money for the post-production stage now. If you would like to help us out, we would be so so appreciative! Your donation would be tax-deductible. Check out our page on Fractured Atlas!

(4/10/19) A look back at the incredible crew of PUPPET SEIZURE. Three days of shooting 37 scenes! Their organization and dedication made that possible.

(1/8/19) We wrapped principle photography of PUPPET SEIZURE and couldn’t be more proud!!! What a whirlwind of fun and kookiness! We proudly worked with an almost all female crew of various backgrounds and ethnicities. Here are a few behind the scenes shots:

(12/22/18) WE DID IT!!! Thanks to 86 supporters we raised over $10K for principal photography. THANK YOU!!!

(12/01/18) Our crowdfunding campaign for PUPPET SEIZURE is underway and we couldn’t be more excited to express our gratitude for your generosity and support!

http://www.seedandspark.com/fund/puppet-seizure

(9/26/18) Excited to start recording Season Two of the Sci-fi Podcast Marsfall!!! And Season One hit 100,000 downloads!

(3/10/18) I'll be reading 3 different roles in a new play that's part of Emerging Theatre Arts New Work Series.

Saturday at 7PM! Tickets are $15. 

(12/1/17) I'm so excited to be joining the cast of Marsfall, my first podcast that I get to share my voice to!! More info to come. You can start listening to the first season here: http://marsfallpodcast.com

(8/11/17) Here is the teaser for my short film PUPPET SEIZURE! My amazing team helped to make this possible- Rachel Levenson directed and edited with me. Andrew Franks was our director of photography. More details to come!

(8/1/17) Sunshower cover, by Chris Cornell. Recording this tribute to Chris was extremely important for me in regards to dealing with his loss. I can only hope that his family and friends find some comfort in knowing how much he is loved around the world. Rest in peace, Chris. Thank you for your work.

(2/15/17)  My short PUPPET SEIZURE is scheduled to be filmed this summer! I'm so excited to be working on this film, as it has always been one of my dreams to write, direct, edit, act, and compose the music for a project. And what better project than one that is loosely based off of my real life children's theater company that I have run for the past nine years? (Truly truly loosely based)

(11/26/16) The Book of Elm Street Premiere was a blast! I can't wait to work with my dear friend James LaRosa again on another project!

(9/27/16)  

There will be a screening and panel of Scheherazade for women filmmakers at:

Soho House at 7PM-9PM 

29-35 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10014

(9/21/16)  Finished filming Book of Elm Street, and here is a sneak peek of my transformation!!

(8/22/16)  The Morin Sisters performed at the Festival of Friends in the Olympic National Forest!

(7/25/16)  I've just been cast in a fan film spinoff of Nightmare on Elm Street! We're set to film the beginning of September. Photos to come!

(5/30/16)  While in Maine visiting my family for Memorial Day weekend, I managed to squeeze in a music video with my sister and cousins performing a version of "I'll Fly Away". 

(3/31/16)  Inspired by Chris Isaak's "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing," I directed and edited a music video with my two incredible nieces while in South Florida. My cinematographers Rachel Levenson and Andrew Franks shot the girls beautifully.

Winner of BEST ACTRESS at the Fosters Film Festival in Missouri (Nov. 7, 2015)

FILM FESTIVALS FOR SCHEHERAZADE:

West Chester Film Festival (April 22nd-24th, 2016, West Chester, PA)  MEHRNOUSH ALIAGHAEI NOMINATED FOR BEST FEMALE FILMMAKER,  NOMINATED FOR BEST DRAMATIC FILM

Princeton Film Festival (April 15th-17th, 2016, Princeton, NJ)

Taos Shortz Film Fest (April 7th-10th, 2016, Taos, NM)

Garden State Film Festival (March 31st- April 3rd, 2016, Atlantic City, NJ)

Blackbird Film Festival (Dec. 15-18, 2015, Cortland, NY)

China Women's Film Festival (Nov. 22-29, 2015, Beijing, China)

Williamsburg Independent Film Festival (Nov. 20, 2015, Brooklyn, NY)

Underexposed Film Festival (Nov. 4-7, 2015, Rock Hill, SC)

Visionaria Film Festival (Oct. 8-17, 2015, Sienna, Italy)

Bogart Film Festival (Oct. 21-23, 2015, Key Largo, FL)

Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival (Oct. 19-25, 2015, Newport, RI)

Tulsa Film Festival (Oct. 16, 2015, Tulsa, OK)

Qabila Film Festival (Oct. 8-10, 2015, Cairo, Egypt)

Unreal Film Festival (Oct. 4-10, 2015, Memphis, TN)  MEHRNOUSH ALIAGHAEI WINS BEST DIRECTOR AWARD

DC Shorts Film Festival (Sept. 10-20, 2015, Washington D.C.)

Snake Alley Film Festival (Aug. 6-8, 2015, Burlington, IA)

Imperfectu International Film Festival (July 18-26, 2015, Tijuana, Mexico)

Champs-Elysées Film Festival (June 13, 2015, Paris, France)  SCHEHERAZADE WINS AUDIENCE AWARD

FILM FESTIVALS FOR THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT:

First Run Film Festival (Aug. 10, 2013, New York, NY)

Big Apple Film Festival (2013, New York, NY)  THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT WINS BEST FILM