TELLO FILMS
PREMIERES
“SKIRTCHASERS”
STARRING ELIZABETH
KEENER, BARRY BOSTWICK AND MEREDITH
BAXTER
Los Angeles,
CA - tello Films just released the highly
anticipated comedy “Skirtchasers” starring Elizabeth Keener ("The L
Word", "My Generation") as Robyn Samuels and Barry Bostwick
("Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Spin City") as her estranged
father, Damien Samuels and Meredith Baxter ("Family Ties",
"Young and the Restless") as her divorced mother - https://www.tellofilms.com/
The five part
web series was written and created by James Berg & Stan Zimmerman
("The Golden Girls", "Roseanne", "Gilmore Girls",
"The Brady Bunch" movies). Amanda Bearse directed four of the
webisodes, with Zimmerman directing one.
Bearse has
directed and produced such series as "Big Gay Sketch Show",
"MADtv" and "Dharma & Greg”.
As an actress,
she is best known for her role as Marcy D'Arcy on Fox's "Married With
Children" and the feature film "Fright Night”.
"There is
a new media landscape that I'm thrilled to explore and I'm very glad to be
doing it with my friend Stan Zimmerman and working with a company like tello
with their focus on content for the lesbian community," said Bearse.
Zimmerman and Bearse appeared on the Sean Hayes produced Bravo reality show,
"Situation: Comedy.”
Robyn is
freshly single after a break-up with her long time girlfriend the day before
their wedding. As Robyn deals with mending her broken heart, she realizes her
issues delve further than her issues with commitment; they go way back, to her
father. After the split of her parents, her best-selling novelist father,
remarried a much younger woman, and became a father again, abandoning Robyn.
Watch the
Trailer: https://www.
Rounding out
the "Skirtchasers" cast are Katie Walder ("How I Met Your
Mother", "Mad Men"), Tangie Ambrose ("In Plain
Sight"), Jessica Lu ("Awkward"), JJ Totah ("Jessie"),
Valerie Ortiz ("South of Nowhere", "Hit the Floor"),
Shaughn Buchholz ("Scrubs"), Brandy Howard ("The People's
Couch") and Clementine Ford ("The L Word”).
"I am
extremely excited to be bringing this new series to life," said Christin Baker,
co-founder and CEO of tellofilms.com. "James and Stan's writing
is phenomenal and targets the exact kind of audience tello is all about. Not to
mention the amazing actors that have been drawn to this material.”
Known for “Maybelle”, "Nikki & Nora" and "Kiss Her I'm Famous," this new web series will be joining an astounding list of other well-known series on the tello Films website.
Known for “Maybelle”, "Nikki & Nora" and "Kiss Her I'm Famous," this new web series will be joining an astounding list of other well-known series on the tello Films website.
Recently tello
confirmed that actress/comic/singer, Lea DeLaria, who plays "Big Boo"
on the award winning Netflix series, "Orange is the New Black", will
cover a classic tune as the theme song to the new tello Films comedy
"Skirtchasers”.
Tello recently
greenlit another web-pilot from Zimmerman & Berg called "Secs &
Execs". It will go into production late summer 2016.
tello Films produces and distributes innovative, high-quality
web series with a lesbian focus. "We believe in telling authentic stories
about people whose lives are often ignored or marginalized. tello creates web
series specifically for the lesbian/queer community. Meaning that lesbian/queer
characters are front and center. We love lesbians and we don't feel
that there are enough stories about us. At tello, we create new web content
that is intelligent but fun, timely but classic, and tasteful yet sexy.
Providing a whirlwind of classic ideas from a lesbian perspective, brave and
challenging content with a lesbian twist."
For more information, visit https://www.tellofilms.
