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HR Lady

A complaint to HR exposes a generational rift among two women in the office leading to a question with an uncomfortable answer. Watch what happens when both women are right and both women are wrong.

Kim Rhodes as you've never seen her before stars with newcomer Kelsey Susino in a tense workplace drama exposing the dark side of workplace politics.

  • Fred Shahadi
    Director
  • Fred Shahadi
    Writer
  • Joel Polis
    Producer
  • Mary Shahadi
    Producer
  • Fred Shahadi
    Producer
  • Kim Rhodes
    Key Cast
    "Violet"
  • Kelsey Susino
    Key Cast
    "Melanie"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 38 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 19, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital Blackmagic Design
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Fred Shahadi

Fred Shahadi is an award winning filmmaker, playwright, television writer, and actor living in Los Angeles CA. His stage play "How Many Fingers?" was semifinalist at the Austin Film Festival in 2023. Fred recently finished writing, producing, and directing his short film HR Lady starring Kim Rhodes as well as his short series Same Suits. His short film Two Out-of-Work Actors won 10 awards for best comedy in film festivals around the wrold. Fred's play BOX, had two successful Off Broadway runs in 2003 and 2011 and he was the head writer for three seasons for the Emmy nominated Recipe Rehab on CBS. Fred won consecutive Heck-Rabi Dramatic Awards for his plays Plastic Man and Supertrain, as well as a Parents Choice Award for his work on Recipe Rehab in 2014. Fred is also the author of the cult science fiction novel Shoot the Moon which Mat Johnson author of Pym, Incognegro, and Loving Day, called "a brilliant fever dream of a novel--wildly creative, relentlessly funny, and wholly unique. Fred Shahadi has an utterly original literary voice that you're going to want to sit down and listen too."

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Yes and, tell the truth...serve the story