 Ellie Parker
Starring: Naomi Watts, Chevy Chase, Scott Coffey, Mark Pellegrino, Fanshen Cox
Directed by: Scott Coffey
Screenplay by: Scott Coffey
Release Date: November 11, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG for fantasy action and peril, and some language.
Studio: Strand Releasing
 Domestic: $34,410 (75.3%)
Foreign: $11,316 (24.7%)
Total: $45,726 (Worldwide)
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 Ellie Parker (Naomi Watts) races around town from one audition to another, changing make-up, clothes and personality as she speeds along, barely attending to her whirlwind life as she strives to get cast in a movie. And her best friend Sam (Rebecca Rigg), her boyfriend Justin(Mark Pellegrino) and her new fling Chris (Scott Coffey) just don't seem to help. As Ellie considers giving up after losing faith in the craft, her manager Dennis (Chevy Chase) doesn't exactly talk her out of it. One last insane audition for Ellie, and she's back in the game...or is she?
Five years ago, actor and director Scott Coffey took a small consumer-grade (purchased from Best Buy with a credit card) one-chip digital video camera and made a 16-minute film about a young actress struggling with identity in Los Angeles, shape-shifting from one character to another as she hurtles through the Los Angeles freeway system from one audition to another. Coffey and Naomi Watts shot for three days and the resulting short film ended up in the Short Program of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Coffey “wanted to capture the fragmentation of this giant metropolis that I was living in. I always wanted to capture the bizarre existence most people experience in LA, living in their cars, alienated from each other in their cubes of steel. Also, the main character being an actress functions as a metaphor for modern living.”
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