Beauty School (Short)

Learning to be a woman comes all too naturally for a young girl when her older cousin decides to play dress-up with a little help from the beauty industry.
Starring Zoe Staig and Samara Weisberg
With Sallie Merkel, Jessica Gardner and Ben Fuller
Written and Directed by Samantha Shada
Produced by Sorina Sambula
Created by a Majority Female Production Crew!
Aymae Sulick, cinematographer
Sarah Madden, editor
Tema L. Staig, production design
Gwendolyn Stukely, costume design
Melissa K. Webb, key makeup artist
Kat Fernandez, makeup artist
Sara Ataiiyan, assistant director
Ry Chase, sound recordist
Autumn Collins, camera assistant
Nicole Binnall, script supervisor
Sylvia Monge, sound editing
Seth Olansky, sound mixing
Christy Carew, scoring
Candice Mars Williamson, colorist
Beauty School premiered with the Academy Qualifying LA Shorts Film Fest and received invitations to the Studio City Film Festival, the Marina Del Rey Film Festival, San Diego International Kids' Film Festival, the Southern Colorado Film Festival and the Way Down Film Festival in Georgia. The film went on to a world wide cable contract with ShortsTV on DirectTV and a DVD release on the compilation titled "Big Little Girls" from Meridian Releasing Group.