you drive me crazy

friday, September 27, 2019 at 6:15pm

Program #5

You Drive Me Crazy is a dark comedy/thriller about a GPS who takes revenge on a cheating husband. Longer synopsis:A dark comedy thriller, “You Drive Me Crazy” is a cautionary tale about our obsessive reliance on technology. A seemingly ordinary guy, Glen, is driving when his GPS voice gives him directions that don’t quite add up. When he tries to follow his own path, the GPS computer shockingly takes control berating him for some of his life choices. Things go from bad to worse when Glen winds up in the last place he’d ever want to be.

Meet the filmmakers

WRITER - Wendy Fishman

DIRECTOR - Vickie Rose Sampson

PRODUCER - Vickie Rose Sampson

CINEMATOGRAPHER

EDITOR

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

BIOGRAPHIES

Vickie Rose Sampson

Victoria Sampson is an award-winning producer/writer/director, film and sound editor. With over 201 Sound credits, including sound editing on Academy Award winning films for Sound, “Speed” and “The River,” she has also won 4 Golden Reel Awards and an Emmy for her sound work.
Since 1992, Victoria also created and taught Post Production Sound for Directors and Editors at UCLA, USC, Video Symphony, AFI and often guest lectures at colleges and universities.
•Victoria is a member of:
•AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Sound Branch since 1988) Also serves on the Museum’s Sound committee
•MPSE (Motion Picture Sound Editors) •Women in Film,
•Women in Media
•LA Sound Sisters
•Victoria is a graduate of the AFI's acclaimed 6th Cycle of the Directing Workshop for Women. She was selected as one of twelve out of 600 applicants to direct a short film, her award-winning “Last Chance Saloon.”
•She has written, directed, produced and edited three award winning 30+ minute short films, one of which is “Click Three Times” which was written, directed and edited by Vickie and stars ISABEL SANFORD (from TVs “The Jeffersons”) “Click” played in over 50 festivals and won over 30 awards both nationally and internationally, including the Russian Disability Film Festival.
•Vickie has directed over a dozen commercials, some on spec for Current.com and some were commissioned. Her 30 second PSA for Women In Film (“I Wanna Be...”) for the Down Syndrome and Research Foundation, won a Telly and a Gold Aurora Award.
•Victoria also wrote a 30 second PSA, “Saddles for Soldiers” for Women in Film’s PSA program. She won the Grand Prize in Harley Davidson’s contest for women filmmakers with her 2 minute written and directed ad, “Her Need for Speed.”

•She is a founding member and an Emeritus Board member of The Alliance of Women Directors – the only organization devoted exclusively to women directors.
•She recently produced, directed and edited the award-winning film “Shelby’s Vacation,” a 35 min short about dealing with the baggage in your life.
•Victoria is attached to direct a feature film “Revolutionist” starring Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda, Dennis Haysbert, Sally Kirkland, Beth Grant, Lou Ferrigno, Katharine Kramer and Erica Hubbard.
•In 2016, Victoria and Wendy Fishman created Echo Creek Films so they can continue making films that make a difference.
•She is co-producing a paranormal thriller feature film, “Small Whispers” written by her producing partner, Wendy Fishman, with Laura Vandervoort attached as the lead.
•Vickie just directed an 8 min short “You Drive Me Crazy” about a GPS who drives a cheating husband off the road. Currently in post-production! Coming soon!
•Vickie wrote and will direct a short film “See Me” a drama based on a true story of a transgender woman’s suicide attempt and the aftermath it creates.
•Upcoming shoot: a short mockumentary “Love Is...” a film that challenges our perceptions and assumptions about love.
Her IMDB page is: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0760222
Links to some of her work:
Commercial Directing Reel: https://vimeo.com/243765916
Grand Prize Winning 2 min short HER NEED FOR SPEED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7hdbTdZT28
Doritos Contest Entry: BABY CAN’T WAIT (30 seconds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXbJe-8hmIY
Link to Shelby’s Vacation 35 minutes: https://vimeo.com/208263222 Password: shelby2017