Olive And Mocha

Comediva.com,  a comedy site that showcases original video and editorial content for women stating “Our mission is to increase the presence of women in comedy and provide a one-stop shop for a girl to get her giggle on.” Interviewed our director Suzi Yoonessi this week. Enjoy! Boss Lady: Suzi Yoonessi Written by  comediva | @comediva Boss Ladies in [...]

  Our short was voted best funny film by the audience at the Seattle Sketch Festival! We’re so grateful that other people think this thing is as funny as we do. Check out all the other shorts and the judges here: http://www.sketchfest.org/film-festival/2011-film-festival/

Leonardo Canneto is an Argentinean born, New York raised photographer/designer/musician/filmmaker.

Our short, “Olive and Mocha: Fast Times At Sugar High”, will be playing the Gadabout Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana! It will be playing as a part of the New Shorts Program on Sunday, October 9th at 10:00pm @ Rhino’s All  Ages Club 331 South Walnut Street Bloomington, IN 47401 (812) 333-3430 If you live [...]

We were honored to have our world premier of “Fast Times at Sugar High” at the Hammer Museum as part of the Flux Screening Series. Here are some of the awesome pics of our crew. You can see the full set of pics from the night here.

  “Olive and Mocha: Fast Times at Sugar High” will be playing the Austin Film Festival! See our listing here! We’re very excited to show at this festival and if you’re in Austin we would love for you to come check us out! “Fast Times at Sugar High” will play as part of the “Shorts [...]

“Olive and Mocha: Fast Times at Sugar High” will be playing in Seattle on Thursday, October 6th @  7:00 pm at SketchFest Seattle’s 2011 Opening Night Gala as a part of “The 4th Annual Comedy Film Festival” For three years SketchFest Seattle has been presenting the best in short comedy films from around the country. Presenting [...]

“Fast Times at Sugar High” was honored to be a part of the FLUX Screening at the Hammer Museum in September of 2011. We had the opportunity to give a filmmaker’s presentation and so the director, Suzi Yoonessi and the writer/producer, Molly Hale, put together this slideshow. Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Critical moments from Olive and Mocha’s [...]

Super interesting article on women directors in Hollywood from our friends over at MovieFone.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By Gary Susman Posted Aug 30th 2011 7:40PM What’s the top-grossing film directed by a woman? (Hint: It’s not ‘Big’ or ‘You’ve Got Mail’ or ‘It’s Complicated,’ and it’s certainly not ‘The Hurt Locker.’) Give up? It’s ‘Kung Fu Panda [...]

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  Well kids, it’s been three quarters of a year. And one might ask, “what the hell have you been doing with yourself?” The answer to that question is: we shot a short! “Fast Times At Sugar High” is up online now and is currently being sent out to festivals. You can watch it here! [...]

We were honored to be plastered on the FunnyOrDie.com homepage! Thanks to the team over there for giving us some awesome face time. See the short on FunnyOrDie.com here!

“Fast Times at Sugar High”, was shown as a part of the Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 15 @ 8:00 pm. Thank you so much to everyone who came out. It was such a joy to share our world premier with so many friends, family and crew! The [...]

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From our friends at The New York Times: The box-office party may last a while for “Bridesmaids.” Following a solid $26.2-million opening for the rare female-oriented comedy, “Bridesmaids” ticket sales dropped only 20% on the film’s second weekend to $21.1 million, an impressive number, demonstrating very strong word-of-mouth. The modestly budgeted Universal Pictures release, co-financed [...]

From our friends at The New York Times: It looks like moviegoers tossed Kristen Wiig a bigger bouquet than was originally expected this weekend: her new Universal comedy “Bridesmaids”sold $26.2 million through Sunday, according to box-office numbers released on Monday, up from the $24.4 million in ticket sales estimated on Sunday. That’s good news for Ms. Wiig and [...]

From our friends at The Huffington Post: Judging from the fall schedules released thus far by NBC, ABC, and Fox, a decent number of the networks’ comedy offerings will aim to encroach on the formula used in Judd Apatow’s recent films: they focus on beautiful and/or powerful women, and the slightly emasculated, slacker guys who love [...]

From our friends over at Slashfilm: The Paul Feig-directed Bridesmaids won’t be opening until next weekend, but it looks like Hollywood has already taken notice of the wedding-themed female-driven comedy’s mainstream appeal.

SPRING OF SORROW Directed by Suzi Yoonessi Synopsis: Sisters Lily and Isabelle live a nomadic life, displaced by global warming. Trapped in the desert in the midst of a water shortage, Isabelle offers hope to her younger sister by telling a whimsical fairytale that allegorically explains how this tragic world came to be. When Isabelle [...]

Enjoy some pics from the shoot of our short, “Olive and Mocha: Fast Times at Sugar High”