MONIQUE
SORGEN
DIRECTOR & WRITER
Directing Reel 3:30 mins
"Sorry, Not Sorry" 7:32 mins
Award Winner
A couple’s one-upmanship escalates to ridiculous heights after a man eats his wife’s plums.
Starring:
Wallace Langham
Jessica Oyelowo
M. Emmet Walsh
"Rock A Bye Baby" 5:35 mins
Award Winner
A drug deal goes wrong when instead of cocaine, the dealer find out they have a baby and one of them refuses to give it back.
Starring:
Mo McRae
Scott Krinsky
Jessica Oyelowo
Camilla Brewer
"Codependent Socks!" pilot 26:24 mins
Award Winner
Family sitcom about Steven, a civil rights lawyer with a questionable sense of personal boundaries who works at his law firm with his most recent ex-wife, Joy, while his current wife, Bliss, employs her own ex-husband, Giovanni, to help her out around the house. Inspired by a true situation… But with sock puppets.
Available at https://www.koldopen.com/codependent-socks
Spec directing sample of
"Abbott Elementary" 1:18 mins
Starring:
Kayla Marie Coates
Elizabeth Southard
Christine Weatherup
John L. Curtis
"Lying is Complicated" 3:59mins
Melanie tries to get her fake fiancé to come to dinner with her so she can keep up the ruse about how she’s getting married, thus forcing her married friends to hang out with her as her bridesmaids.
Starring Kelly Vrooman & Nick Creegan
"Random Check"
Award Winner
Sara, who wears a hijab, arrives on an international flight to San Diego for Comic Con, she is held up for hours by Homeland Security during a "random" check.
Starring:
Sara AlRoshoud
Reid Miller
Sandra Saad
Spec Directing Actors Sample
"Sideways" motel scene 4:14 mins
Starring:
Andre Keir
Marly Phillips
"So There" 3:36 mins
Played on the Disney Channel
Narrative Music Video about high school friendship and young love.
Starring:
Thirsbusters
"Tomorrow's Saturday" 3:07 mins
"Good Things" 4:10 mins
Picked up by The Jonas Brothers' Cambio.com
Narrative Music Video
The conclusion of the trilogy that started with "So There"
Starring:
Thirstbusters
"How Long You Should Wait to Have Sex"
3:03 mins
Based on the book about a woman who can go back in time again and again to figure out how long she needs to wait to have sex, to make the guy she likes fall in love with her.
Starring:
Andrea Geones
Justin Preston
"Pants on Fire" 28:56 mins
Played on airlines and TV around the world
A woman can't lie or she will die instantly and go straight to Hell. (My first film.)
Starring:
Cress Williams, Ronny Cox, Jenni Pulos, Shari Ballard, Jennifer Taylor Scott, Jeff Rosenthal