Award-winning short film, The Vest, available on DVD from Door To Door Films

Updated 4 May 2004

Skye stars in a comic short film titled The Vest.  She plays Sarah, a creative third-grader who is teased at school for wearing a homemade vest.  Enrico Colantoni (Just Shoot Me) plays Sarah's father.  The late Kellie Waymire (Six Feet Under) plays Sarah's mother.

The Vest is a SAG Experimental Feature Film produced by Paul Gutrecht, Amy Lippens, and Albert Hasson (Door to Door Films).  Paul Gutrecht wrote and directed.  It was filmed during September 2002 in Los Angeles.  The Vest was shown extensively on the film festival circuit during 2003 (see below).

If you're interested in obtaining The Vest on DVD, please contact Door To Door Films.

Most recently, The Vest played at the Sundance Film Festival.  Photos at Sundance taken by WireImage.com are available on the Web, e.g. on IMDb. 

Prior festival showings in 2003

The Vest has been been entered, and has been winning awards (!) at the following film festivals:  Los Angeles, Newport, Tribeca, Florida, New Haven, and Gulf Coast.  A list of appearances, reports, and photos from these festivals appear below:

• Olympia, WA (Olympia Film Festival); Nov 6 to 9, 2003
  
• Northampton, MA (Northampton Independent Film Festival); Nov 6 to 9, 2003
  
• Rehobeth, DE (Rehobeth Film Festival); Nov 6 to 9, 2003
  
• New Orleans, LA (New Orleans Media Experience); Oct 26 to Nov 1, 2003
  
• Savannah, GA (Savannah Film Festival); Oct 27, 2003
  
• East Hampton, NY (Hamptons International Film Fest); Oct 24, 2003
  
• North Adams, MA (Williamstown Film Festival); Oct 24 to Nov 2, 2003
  
• Dallas, TX (Deep Ellum Film Festival); Oct 22 to 30, 2003
  
• Mill Valley, CA (Mill Valley Film Festival); Oct 2 to 12, 2003

• New York, NY (Manhattan Film Festival) on Sep 28

• New York, NY (Coney Island Short Film Festival) on Sep 27 & 28.  Wins Best Comedy award.
  
• Houston, TX (Gulf Coast Film and Video Festival) during Sep 19 to 21.  Wins Best Of Show

Accepting Best of Show award, and phoning director Paul Gutrecht

• New Haven, CN (New Haven Film Fest) on Sep 19 to 21 Yale Daily News article The Vest won two awards -- Audience Award for Best Dramatic Short, and Jury Award for Best Comedy Short.
  
• Palm Springs, CA (Palm Springs Film Festival) on Sep 21
  
• Boston (MA) Film Film Festival during Sep 5 to 14
  
• Seattle (WA) Bumbershoot One Reel Festival on Aug 29 to Sep 1
  
• Crested Butte (CO) Reel Fest during Aug 13-17

• Baltimore's Artscape on Jul 25-28

• The Vest was shown twice at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Jun 15 and 18.  It won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Festival!

• Winning the Short Film Jury Award, The Vest was presented at the Newport International Film Festival during Jun 10 to 15 in Rhode Island.

• The Vest was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on May 4 and 11.  Skye attended both screenings.  She also performed in a staged reading of a new screenplay, Glow Worms, where she met many entertainment industry people including Robert DeNiro, the co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival.

                                  Robert Deniro

• At the Florida Film Festival during March 7 to 16,  The Vest won the Audience Award for Best Short, over all eligible narrative, documentary and animated short films.  The Vest also received the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short Film.  Because this festival is one of only 41 festivals around the world (including Sundance and Cannes) that is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, receiving the Grand Jury Award qualifies the short for consideration by the Nominating Committee for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short for next year! 

• The Maryland Film Fest in Baltimore during May 1-4

with Paul Gutrecht and Amy Lippens at Tribeca Film Festival

with Paul Gutrecht, director; L during the shoot, R at wrap party

Skye with film double, Veronika