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Monica Huntington
"20 Minutes" was written, directed and produced by Monica Huntington. She also stars in it as Grace, the loving wife. She brings to the role, a warmth that is sweet and adoring yet playful and twinkling with fiery mischief. Monica has appeared in such film as "Executive Decision" with Kurt Russel and Halle Berry, "That Thing You Do" directed by Tom Hanks, the Dave Barry film starring John Cleese, to premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, February 2005; and this past year had starring roles in the indie features, "My Baby's Momma Drama," and the Horror film, "Lich," which already has a cult following overseas.
Monica is a Southern California native, and has enjoyed performing most of her life. She has
studied with Margie Haber, Larry Moss, and Teri Tunder. Since producing "20 Minutes," she has
fallen in love with writing and directing. She has written a feature length comedy, which is
in development, and has three other screenplays in the works, including the feature length
version of "20 Minutes."
The story for "20 Minutes" came to Monica while driving home late one night after acting class
in Beverly Hills. The story kept haunting her, until she decided to write the short
screenplay, which tugged at the back of her mind for a couple of years until she was
compelled to produce the film. Producing the film was an exciting journey for her. She
received thousands of submissions from agents and actors. It was difficult to narrow it down
to the hundred or so actors she auditioned. She screen tested everyone and personally read
with all of the potential "Scotts."
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Jeff Marchelletta
Jeff Marchelletta, born on Long Island, started his acting career in NYC where he performed in several Off-Broadway productions. He has studied with Naomi Thornton, Michelle Danner, Larry Moss & Margie Haber. His TV credits include "All My Children," "Law & Order," "Comedy Central's VS.," "Nikki" and "The Hillside Stranglers." His numerous film credits include "The Best Man," "Exorcism," "The Good Fight" and "Hollywood Vampyr" for which he received a BEST ACTOR NOMINATION at the 2002 Modesto Film Festival.
Also a dynamic film producer, he recently optioned a feature-length Mafia thriller "Betting the Game" written and directed by Tanya Reihill (currently attached to direct Oscar-winner Jim Sheridan's next feature "Thesis"). Currently Jeff, as Producer, is heavily involved with "Ringers: Lord of the Fans," a feature-length documentary that reveals the ongoing phenomenon created by "The Lord of the Rings" and the hidden power behind J.R.R. Tolkien's books. "Ringers" includes interviews with "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy cast members such as Ian McKellen & Dominic Monaghan, writer/director Clive Barker (Hellraiser) , David Carradine (Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2) and writer/director Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous) just to name a few.
Jeff instantly fell in love with the script "20 Minutes" before even attending the audition.
He was excited to be cast as the lead in this emotionally rich drama, and was thrilled to be
part of this production and work with such a creative writer/director/actress Monica
Huntington, and an amazingly talented cast and crew.
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