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Director's Reel - Comedy

HEIDI C. BORDOGNA

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER

Heidi C. Bordogna is a film and television producer/director/writer.  She produced the feature film, Asockalypse!, currently in distribution.  She wrote and produced the pilot/web series, Exiled Out East, which recently screened at the Dances With Films festival and was a selection at ITVFest and the NYWIFT Shorts Screening series.  She co-produced the feature film Confidence Game, starring Sean Young and James McCaffrey, an official selection in the Soho International Film Festival, Hoboken International Film Festival and the Golden Door International Film Festival, among others.  She recently filmed the short film, Pain and Suffering: A Legal Comedy, which is currently being submitted to festivals.

She is also in development on Legends, a comedy feature featuring numerous top comedians.  She also has two projects involving sophisticated puppets and creatures, Underdogs (series) and The Guardians of Molly (feature), both in development.  Her short documentary, Controlling Tourette's Syndrome, can be seen on ABC NewsNow and she recently produced the television pilots – Dr. Fukovsky and General Studies.  She co-wrote the narrative feature, Court Jesters and her documentary feature, Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler! premiered at the Acadiana Film Festival domestically and internationally at the Saulieu Nuits Cajun et Zydeco in Burgundy, France.  She has sold screenplays to companies in New York and Los Angeles, and her scripts have placed in The New York Television Festival, The Atlantic City Cinefest/Downbeach Film Festival, The Fade-In Awards, and other film and screenplay festivals.  

She has worked in production and development for companies in New York and Los Angeles, with programs on ESPN, Animal Planet and in syndication.  For five years, she was a camerawoman/video engineer with the hit Off-Broadway show, Blue Man Group.  She has a BFA in Film/TV production from New York University, an MFA in Screenwriting from Goddard College and has taught as an Assistant Professor at New York University, Fordham University, the University of Louisiana and New York Film Academy.