Icarus Stops For Breakfast

Zealey Bess, is an Award winning filmmaker and theatre director. Her work has crossed boundaries and platforms for many years as an independent director and producer in film and theatre and she has been specializing in new work since she arrived on these shores and established her company, Weird Sisters, as a theatrical entity in 1997.
She continues to head Weird Sisters developing feature film projects and theatrical ventures in NY, Regionally and in Europe devoted to the promotion of prolific women artists and writers giving voice to new and thought-provoking work.
Her debut film: Play Ball! (Fanfare for A Common Man, Random Acts of Intimacy, Caught in Time) screened throughout the globe at over 40 festivals including Berlin Film Festival, Cannes Director Fortnight and won Best Film at seven USA festivals, and 1st Prize for Best Short Film by woman director at the LA Women In Film Competition.

Film Projects recently on the film festival circuit include the award-winning Mary and Louise, (Awards: Best Short film screenplay LA FF, Accolade Award Competition Special Merit, Best Composer Score, Brit Penrod Best Trailer, WIF Finalist), that pays tribute to Mary Pickford and Louise Brooks.
Currently on the film circuit is her latest Award Winning film, Icarus Stops For Breakfast by Holli Harms, a dark comedy/fairy tale adapted from a short story Eating by Rick Bass.

Feature length scripts currently in development include Walking Shadows, the story of two unlikely Vets finding friendship and rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of Vietnam by Chris Ceraso and 7 Variations on the the Same Lover by Crystal Skillman

She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, SDC, Actors Studio DPU, NYWIFT, LPTW and Board Member of Dell Arte Opera.
She is on the Faculty for the MFA Film Program at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and is represented by Linda Weaver at Access Talent.
Website: www.weirdsistersfilms.com
www.icarusstopsforbreakfast.com