Award-winning actress Maggie McCollester stars in pageant hit “Killing Time”
Maggie is a gifted actress with fantastic instincts…she is a great collaborator

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (PRWEB)
July 21, 2021
Award-profitable actress Maggie McCollester stars in competition hit “Killing Time” created and directed by P. Patrick Hogan, which will host its Intercontinental Debut on July 22nd, 2021, at Rock the Shorts Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA, and air on ShortsTV as part of the fest’s strategic global programming throughout North America and EMEA: Europe, the Center East and Africa.
“Killing Time” nabbed McCollester a Most effective Actress nod and the movie a Finest Sci-Fi Shorter Movie honor at the 20th Yearly ConCarolinas Multi-Fandom Conference and Film Pageant. The film, from producers Ana Krista Johnson of JohnHog Danger Productions and Sharon Gytri and Lowell Dean of Charger Enterprises, also gained Very best Narrative Short Movie for its World Premiere at the Large Bear Film Summit.
Rock the Shorts founder & competition director, Roxanne Marciniak, states, “This is the 2nd calendar year the McCollesters will be section of our film festival, and we’re very pleased to monitor the recent hit they worked on, “Killing Time.” Very last yr, we ended up honored to screen “Movie Night,” published and directed by Hamish McCollester. The McCollester husband-spouse filmmaking group is extremely gifted!”
Maggie McCollester says, “‘Killing Time” has been a desire project from start to finish—even during the pandemic. The manufacturing staff is leading notch, the forged is great, and the story is as compelling as it was tough to shoot in a single weekend.”
P. Patrick Hogan, “Killing Time” writer/director and eight-time Emmy Nominee as Supervising Sound Editor, suggests, “Maggie is a gifted actress with good instincts…she is a excellent collaborator who not only asks terrific concerns of her director, but also is open to recommendations and exploring beats and scenes to come across the very best probable performance.”
The East Coast Premiere of “Killing Time” will be held on July 30th at 8:30 p.m. at the New Hope Film Festival in Pennsylvania, and the film is an Formal Assortment at the Woods Hole Movie Pageant in Falmouth, MA, established to monitor on August 4th at 8:30 p.m. The film will also display screen practically at equally.
In this horror/science fiction shorter movie with a twist, a lady (McCollester) goes on a run in the woods and draws in the consideration of a mysterious figure who follows her back to her home. When the figure slips into the home and lies in wait around for her, she have to confront the decisions of her past, with deadly outcomes.
McCollester’s award-profitable creative get the job done foretells a great foreseeable future for her possess manufacturing firm Harbinger Moon Media, an entity she co-established with her husband writer/director Hamish McCollester, whose cinematography do the job gave “Killing Time” its look and feeling of suspense.
Harbinger Moon Media is slated to deliver a thriller function in 2021 with Maggie as lead actress/producer and Hamish as author/director/DP, showcasing their appreciable abilities again.
Upcoming Virtual and Competition Screenings of “Killing Time” involve:
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Rock the Shorts Movie Festival on ShortsTV July 22nd - New Hope Movie Festival, New Hope, PA, July 30th
- Woods Hole Movie Competition, Falmouth, MA, Aug. 4th
- Oregon Short Film Pageant, Portland, OR, Aug. 29th



About Maggie McCollester
Award-winning actress, Maggie McCollester’s operate has been enjoyed by tens of millions all over the world in well known television reveals like “Dexter,” “The Unit” and “The Young and the Restless” and on phase in dozens of wide-ranging expert theatre roles—from taking part in Kate in “The Taming of the Shrew” to Irene Molloy in “Hello, Dolly!,” as very well as all through a year-extended tour of the U.S. and Europe with “Up with Individuals.” She has appeared in dozens of commercials and print advertisements, and on display screen in indie films, this sort of as “Back Quickly,” “Protecting the King,” and “Movie Night” which she starred in and developed with her partner writer-director Hamish McCollester.
About Hamish McCollester
An MFA graduate of NYU’s Dramatic Writing Software, Hamish is an award-successful screenwriter and director who delivers a critical eye for storytelling to all elements of his professional existence. As a creative director with more than 25 years of working experience functioning in advertising and marketing, Hamish can help craft information-pushed purchaser-encounters for some of the world’s most effectively-recognised brand names. And as a DGA Professional Director and indie filmmaker, he repeatedly looks for strategies to embrace new technology, methods, and superior aged fashioned creativeness to make the most of any output price range. More than the decades, he has directed jobs that have ranged in size from $1 Million to fewer than $100, and have been observed by hundreds of thousands. He is at present on the director’s roster at The Devil You Know and runs the indie creation firm Harbinger Moon Media, with his wife, Maggie McCollester.
About Harbinger Moon Media
Founded in 2009, Harbinger Moon Media is an unbiased content material generation business operate by partner-spouse filmmaking staff, writer-director Hamish McCollester and actor-producer Maggie McCollester. They do the job with each other to produce inspiring leisure and believed-provoking information to share with the globe. By crafting, performing and generating, the enterprise strives to advance the high quality of unbiased material by honoring the craft of excellent storytelling.
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