Writer/Director/Producer and Edison resident Tom Cavanaugh returns to the Garden State Film Festival with his award winning, new, short film, SERVICE ME. A three-minute screwball, comedy about a woman that pulls into a gas station and ends up bantering with the attendant about life until they find common ground and bond on how to help the woman who has been left by her boyfriend!
Cavanaugh has east coast premiered several of his short films at the Garden State Film Festival including, THE SHIFT that won Best Short in the 2007 Garden State Film Festival and Cavanaugh’s POKER NIGHT that he wrote, produced and premiered in the 2017 Garden State Film Festival.
SERVICE ME was developed through the Manhattan Film Institute under the guidance of Tony Spiridakis (Inappropriate Behavior. Queens Logic) and in workshop at The Actors Gym in New York City under the guidance of Bobby Moresco (Crash, Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend), The project was then produced by Spiridakis and the Manhattan Film Institute in their Summer Filmmaking Program at Greenport, NY on the North Fork of Long Island.
SERVICE ME has won BEST RELATIONSHIP SHORT at the Silicon Beach Film Festival in Hollywood, California and BEST SHORT SHORT at the New York Long Island Film Festival and BEST NORTH AMERICAN SHORT FILM at the New York Independent Cinema Awards.
SCREENING: Saturday, March 25th at 12:15pm
Garden State Film Festival 2023
Jersey Shore Arts Center
66 S. Main Street, Ocean Grove, NJ 07756