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Molly Vernon

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Molly Vernon
A teenager cares for her younger sibling and local orphans in the face of danger after her Grandmother is killed surrendering to the Mexican Army toward the end of the Texas Revolution.
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Molly Vernon is an award-winning filmmaker with over 65 credits to her name. She works in multiple areas of filmmaking including Producing, Directing, Assistant Directing, Production Management and also as a Writer. Her films have won multiple awards with an international presence both for herself and her creative team. Molly successfully worked professionally as a filmmaker while simultaneously teaching both theatre and film at San Jacinto College District until her retirement from full-time teaching freed her up to work full-time in filmmaking in 2012. In 2016 she returned as an adjunct (part-time professor) at The Art Institute - Houston. Teaming up with Director of Photography, Larry McKee to create Vernon-McKee Productions, Molly co-wrote and was 1st Assistant Director on the short film Cold War that was selected to screen in 2012 at the Cannes Film Festival as one of the top 10 48HFP's of 2011. She also co-wrote and was 1st Assistant Director on The Void, which won 1st Place honors (and numerous other awards) at the 2014 Splatterfest Film Competition and produced the short film Red Pearl that won a Jury Award from NASA and the Houston Cinema Arts Society at the 2015 Houston Cinema Arts Festival in Houston, Texas. The short faith-based film Into The Light; which she wrote and directed for the 168 Film Festival which premiered in Los Angeles in August of 2016 had a fantastic run at film festivals winning multiple awards and will soon be on DirecTV's Short Movie Channel and available on Amazon Prime. She was also Production Manager on the sci-fi feature Dropa which is in post-production with a pending theatrical release in 2019. She also completed working with SAG-AFTRA talent on a reading of her screenplay Trashman (aka Scherzo) for a Script2Screen reading in Houston, TX. Molly completed a short film titled Abide which won Best Write of Passage Film and Best Actor at the 2017 168 Film Festival in Los Angeles and many other awards during the 2018 film festival circuit. Also, completed in 2018 was the short sci-fi film produced by Vernon-McKee titled Biomass which is doing well on the festival circuit. Coming in 2019 is the short historical drama Lillian which Molly both wrote and directed.
BornDecember 20, 1954
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Prison City Film Fest
Winning Best Film (and other awards) at the 2011 Houston 48HFP.
RED PEARL Movie Director of Photography Larry R McKee, Producer Molly Vernon and Director Wayne Slaten @ Houston Cinema Arts Festival on Friday, Nov 13th after winning our Special Jury Award from NASA.
Molly INDIEX Film Fest Trophies
Winning Best Film @ Splatterfest 2014
Molly Vernon
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Austin Revolution Film Fest
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Known for

Jeffrey Walton, Lexi Graves, Julye Newlin, John S. Pfister, Com Cineducks, Mel Blanco, Wyatt D. Walker, Lance Gibbs, Agnes Chicken, Toby Bornhauser, Travis Ammons, Molly Vernon, Matt Sweatt, James Seyer, Gage Cattoni, Larry Taylor, Aedin Waldorf, Laci Calfee, Sebastian Allman, and Roland Salazar in Men in Cars
Men in Cars
Short
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    Josephine John, Larry McKee, Molly Vernon, Greg Dean, Nia Johnson, John Enick, Shanae'a Moore, Presley Fuentes, Brayden Scott, Ranger Welling, Chloe Montgomery, Ben Bonnett, Roland Salazar, Detria Ward, and Greyson Gomez in Lillian (2019)
    Lillian
    9.7
    Short
    • Director
    • 2019
    Celeste Roberts, David Matranga, Larry McKee, Wyatt Cagle, Molly Vernon, Greg Dean, Derek J. Samms, and David Michael Hyde in Abide (2017)
    Abide
    9.1
    Short
    • Director
    • 2017
    Into the Light (2016)
    Into the Light
    8.6
    Short
    • Director
    • 2016

    Credits

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    Director

    • Men in Cars
      • Post-production
    • Josephine John, Larry McKee, Molly Vernon, Greg Dean, Nia Johnson, John Enick, Shanae'a Moore, Presley Fuentes, Brayden Scott, Ranger Welling, Chloe Montgomery, Ben Bonnett, Roland Salazar, Detria Ward, and Greyson Gomez in Lillian (2019)
      Lillian
    • Celeste Roberts, David Matranga, Larry McKee, Wyatt Cagle, Molly Vernon, Greg Dean, Derek J. Samms, and David Michael Hyde in Abide (2017)
      Abide
    • Into the Light (2016)
      Into the Light
    • Predator (2005)
      Predator

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Sally Burtenshaw in Lady Grey (in ever lower light) (2021)
      Lady Grey (in ever lower light)
    • Dropa (2019)
      Dropa
    • Richard T. Jones and Elisabeth Röhm in Sanitatum (2018)
      Sanitatum
    • The Cabin (2018)
      The Cabin
    • BioMass (2017)
      BioMass
    • Osprey (2017)
      Osprey
    • Trigger Man (2016)
      Trigger Man
    • Carded
    • Marshall R. Teague in Bail Out (2013)
      Bail Out
    • Last Man Club (2016)
      Last Man Club
    • The Bedtime Story (2015)
      The Bedtime Story
    • Freedom Gate (2015) Produced by Susan Shearer, Written & Directed by Mark Baird
      Freedom Gate
    • The Costume Shop (2014)
      The Costume Shop
    • The Void (2014)
      The Void
    • Donny Boaz in Flashes - The Director's Cut (2014)
      Flashes - The Director's Cut

    Producer

    • Death of a Star
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    • Kids vs. Zombies
      • In Development
    • Behind the Yellow House (2021)
      Behind the Yellow House
    • Samuel Irving in Salting the Fly (2019)
      Salting the Fly
    • Josephine John, Larry McKee, Molly Vernon, Greg Dean, Nia Johnson, John Enick, Shanae'a Moore, Presley Fuentes, Brayden Scott, Ranger Welling, Chloe Montgomery, Ben Bonnett, Roland Salazar, Detria Ward, and Greyson Gomez in Lillian (2019)
      Lillian
    • BioMass (2017)
      BioMass
    • Celeste Roberts, David Matranga, Larry McKee, Wyatt Cagle, Molly Vernon, Greg Dean, Derek J. Samms, and David Michael Hyde in Abide (2017)
      Abide
    • rotten. (2016)
      rotten.
    • Red Pearl (2015)
      Red Pearl
    • The Bedtime Story (2015)
      The Bedtime Story
    • Hidden in the Woods (2014)
      Hidden in the Woods
      • (uncredited)
    • Alexis Raich in Helen Alone (2014)
      Helen Alone
    • Haunted Trailer (2012)
      Haunted Trailer
    • Predator (2005)
      Predator
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    Videos8

    LILLIAN Trailer
    Demo Reel 0:42
    LILLIAN Trailer
    Abide Trailer
    Demo Reel 0:35
    Abide Trailer
    Into the Light Trailer
    Demo Reel 0:40
    Into the Light Trailer
    Larry McKee Director of Photography Reel (2015)
    Demo Reel 2:08
    Larry McKee Director of Photography Reel (2015)
    Red Pearl Trailer (2015)
    Demo Reel 0:41
    Red Pearl Trailer (2015)
    Patriot Act Trailer (2017)
    Demo Reel 1:11
    Patriot Act Trailer (2017)
    COLD WAR
    Demo Reel 6:31
    COLD WAR
    Predator
    Full Movie 7:22
    Predator

    Personal details

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      • December 20, 1954
      • Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
      • Scott VernonFebruary 14, 1982 - present (2 children)
    • Other works
      Musical: Evil Dead The Musical, at San Jacinto College Central, Pasadena, Texas
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      • 2 Interviews
      • 1 Article

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    • Trivia
      Molly's eldest son August is named after filmmaker "Auguste Lumière" and her younger son Austin's middle name is "Kane" from the character Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane.
    • Quotes
      {[Said to First Assistant Director Carlos Tovar on the set of the feature film This is America]: I've sowed my oats and half of yours!
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