HIGHLIGHTS SO FAR FROM THE YEAR 2024:

1) JANUARY 2024: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” WINS a CRITICS CHOICE AWARD, as the “MIGHTY MOVIE HEART WARMER” Award by the Mightier Than the Sword Film Festival & Awards, in Asheboro NC.! What a Wonderful film festival to start the New Year off with! & great Film Festival director, behind it all, Ty Bru.

2) IN ADVANCE!!!! SCREENING DATE REVEALED!!! FEB. 2024:

-The NICKELODEON SHOW Heidi did several voices for last year, “ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS”, is finally airing its first episode on Feb. 12th! YAY!!! Heidi’s first episode also drops on Feb. 16th! So, definitely mark your calendars in order to see it!!

3) FEBRUARY 2024 - HEIDI’S CHANNEL WITH MILLICENT ON YOUTUBE, “READ TO ME, HEIDI”, HAS A NEW VIDEO UP!:

•The new video is for Black History Month, & a Tribute to the actor, Sir Sidney Poitier, & the film he starred in, “To Sir, With Love”! Here is the link to her channel: PLEASE LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE!!! 🙏❤️:

https://youtu.be/HkWnAoxWuno

4) FEBRUARY 2024 - Heidi’s Nickelodeon episode of the animated series, “ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS” is still being shown to audiences on National TV, if you look up under your local Nickelodeon channels; under “On Demand”! The Episode name is: “The Arctic”/Prank Wars”!!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR 2023:

1) JAN. 2023: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” is NOM. for a “People’s Choice Award” by the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, which has its screening in Downtown L.A. at the LIVE Regal Cinema! &… they have a Wonderful movie screen!

2) FEB. 2023: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”, WINS for “ Best Short Film Adapted from Another Medium” by the Golden State Film Festival, in Los Angeles! This festival also has a Fabulous movie screen they use, at the TCL Chinese Theatre (FKA the Mann’s Chinese Theatre) in Hollywood

3) MARCH 2023: NEWSFLASH: The supernatural feature film “HALF DEAD FRED” will now be on AMAZON PRIME! (@amazonprime)! - Heidi plays the female lead, Roberta Dalton, and it has a fabulous cast, starring Corin Nemec, Jason London, & Jordan C. Michael! It is Officially being Released on Streaming TV for rental & purchase this month!

4) APRIL 2023: Heidi is interviewed by VoyageLA Magazine, in an article about Heidi’s journey that led her to where she is today! Here’s the link to read:

https://voyagela.com/interview/daily-inspiration-meet-heidi-schooler/

5) APRIL 2023: Heidi gets interviewed by Horror News about her involvement in the feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED”. She speaks about the shooting of the film, FAB cast, & director, Bron Theron, & wonderful crew. She also shares about her background, her thoughts about theatre, directing, & words of wisdom for fellow actors, & all people wanting to pursue this Industry! Here’s the link to read:

https://horrornews.net/177472/interview-with-heidi-schooler-half-dead-fred/

6) JUNE 2023: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” is an Official Selection and a part of the lineup at the Marina Del Rey Film Festival, screening at the Cinemark Theatre!

-UPDATE: FAB audience, and wonderful screen! Also, Great Festival Directors!😁

7) JUNE 2023: The screenings for Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” continue! Later this month, the poignant, yet comedic short is an Official Selection also at the Nevada Women’s Film Festival in Las Vegas!

-UPDATE: Saw some amazing films! This was a terrific venue for female-driven films and a place to network with many female actors, directors & producers! Also, the Festival Directors were awesome to our whole team that went! 😁🙏

8) JULY 2023: This month, the feature film Heidi is in, (as the character Roberta Dalton), “HALF DEAD FRED”, is going to be in the lineup of films at the Markham (Canada) International Film Festival!

9) AUG. 2023: The screenings for the feature film Heidi is in, “HALF DEAD FRED”, continues! This month, “HALF DEAD FRED” is going to be a part of the “B Beside the Seaside” in Southport, England!

FAB UPDATE!: “HALF DEAD FRED” WINS “BEST FEATURE FILM (U.S.)” at the “B Beside the Seaside” Film Festival! - It is now also on Amazon UK right now as well!

10) AUG. 2023: UPDATE on Heidi’s film she & amazing actor, Bob Telford, star in: “THE BUTTON BUTTON SPONGE & THE MAGIC GLASSES” - This is a Fabulous short film written & dir. by Tom Cavanaugh! & Produced by Bob Telford & Allyson Sereboff! - Which we shot during COVID, & that Tom directed from a laptop Zooming in from NYC! It is an Official Selection as part of the 2023 We Make Movie International Film Festival this year!

11) OCT. 2023: This month, in homage to Halloween & the Anniversary of initially shooting in Flint MI., the feature film Heidi’s in, “HALF DEAD FRED”, (as “Roberta Dalton”), is going to be screening again in Downtown Flint, MI.!

12) OCT. 2023: In honor of Halloween month, Heidi’s show, “READ TO ME, HEIDI” has posted their Halloween Fairytale, “The Tale of Halloween” by Loretta Ellen Brady, author from the 1920’s! heidi does LIVE-TIME Narrating & VO of all of the characters in this wonderful & Hilarious tale, with her sidekick Millicent, the mouse puppet, that asks questions kids would ask!

NEW INFO: Please join her channel on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@readtomeheidi

11) NOV. 2023: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” is NOM. for “Best Musical Short Film” by the Skiptown Playhouse International Film Festival, which screened in L.A. this month! Met fabulous filmmakers this year at their festival, and Heidi’s team LOVED all of the events /panel discussions and the lineup of films they saw! GREAT Festival Directors here!😁🙏

12) NOV. 2023!: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” is NOM. fas a FINALIST or “Best Short Film” by the Artist Emerged International Film Festival (Ethos Film Awards)! & it screened in Santa Monica, at the beautiful Broad Stage in Santa Monica this month! This festival is made up of 5 separate co-fests in 1, where the films focus on “purpose-driven films & inspire dialogue, & drive positive change through the power of cinema!” VERY Inspiring films & wonderful Film Directors!

13) AT THE 2023 WE MAKE MOVIE INT’L FILM FESTIVAL: HEIDI IS INVOLVED WITH 3 PROJECTS THERE:

A) The short dramedy, where Heidi & actor Bob Telford star in, '“THE BUTTON SPONGE & THE MAGIC GLASSES”, screens at the We Make Movies International Film Festival to a full upbeat audience! This is a hilarious film written & directed by Tom Cavanaugh. This film is about a Father-daughter card con-artist team!  (Produced by Tom & the terrific Allyson Sereboff) - This was a memorable shoot because our director, Tom, zoom-directed in from NYC, from a laptop out here in CA.! (due to COVID still affecting the Industry’s shoots). -Heidi said it was such a FUN & Amazing shoot!

-NEW UPDATE: Heidi & the full team behind this film are interviewed on the podcast called, “Cinematography for Actors” as part of the WMMIFF! They are a very cool organization that helps get loads of helpful information to many people in the Industry. Here’s the link to hear the interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxMYiQtJ60&t=108s

B) The comedic ensemble film Heidi was in, called “LOVE CRAFT”, written & directed by Michael Beardsley, also screened at the WMMIFF! So many fun performances in this film! Heidi resurrected her character Ella, & her sidekick Millicent the mouse puppet, (from Heidi’s film, “MILLICENT & ME AND THE APPLE TREE”), for this comedy about how to date online in L.A. these days. Super funny film!

C) The Halloween horror film, “EASY TO SCARE”, that Heidi “Scripty-ed” (Script Supervisor) on screened also as part of the WMMIFF! This suspenseful feature film was directed/written by Robert DiTillio, had a FAB cast, and wonderful crew, & was loved by the audience!!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR 2022:

1) FEB, 2022: Heidi shoots one of the the lead characters in the short dramedy, “THE BUTTON SPONGE & THE MAGIC GLASSES”, written & directed by Tom Cavanaugh. Both Heidi & FAB actor, Bob Telford, Co-star in this film about a Father-daughter card con-artist team! (Produced by Tom & the terrific Allyson Sereboff) - This was a memorable shoot because our director, Tom, zoom-directed in from NYC, from a laptop out here in CA.! (due to COVID still affecting the Industry’s shoots). -Heidi said iIt was still a FUN & Amazing shoot! Will post when there are screenings of this film coming up!

2) MARCH 2022: Heidi Voices 2 character’s for the new upcoming NICKELODEON animated series, “ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS”! The characters are written hilariously, written & created by Josh Lehrman & Kyle Stegina! I will definitely keep everyone posted as to when the show, & Heidi’s episode airs!!!

2) MAY 2022: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”, WINS for “ Best Comedy Short” by the French Riviera Film Festival!!! Also, our Director, John Beaton HIll gets “Recognition of Excellence in Filmmaking” as part of the Festival Awards!! THE NEWS IS IN!!: France LOVES Millicent!! 🐭❤️😁!!

3) JULY 2022: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” is NOM. as a SEMI-FINALIST for “Best Narrative U.S. Short Film” by the San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival!

4) AUGUST 2022: OPENING WEEKEND for the feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED”, in Flint, Michigan! - at the famous Capitol Theatre! - Heidi played the female lead, Roberta Dalton, with FAB actors, Corin Nemec, Jason London, Jordan C. Michael, & many, many more amazing actors in the film! Also, the Dir./writer, Bron Theron wrote an awesome script & was incredibly talented in directing this film!! This Opening Weekend was a HUGE success! NEW INFO. : “HALF DEAD FRED” is now available on Amazon Prime & also on TUBI.

5) AUGUST 2022: As part of the weekend dedicated to the Opening of the feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED”, Heidi, the full Cast, Dir./Writer & Producers of the film sit on a panel, as part of Flint’s “Really Cool Comic Con” show!

6) NOV. 2022: Heidi goes to the Screening of the feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED” in Las Vegas at the Sin City Horror Fest! where Heidi & Dir./Writer Bron Theron were joined by Heidi’s PR gals & Producing team of her soon-to-be-released TV series, “READ TO ME HEIDI”… & their names are ALTER NEW MEDIA!!

7) NOV. 2022: Heidi, & Alter New Media shoot the beginning videos of Heidi’s newly-expanded TV show, “READ TO ME, HEIDI”. PLSE. GO TO: https://www.youtube.com/@readtomeheidi to SUBSCRIBE! - Also, it’s where you can READ all about how these LIVE-TIME readings of fairytales, and stories for kids began, & why it’s so important to Heidi!

8) NOV. 2022: Heidi WINS AWARD for “BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS” for her role of Roberta Dalton in the supernatural feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED, at the Skiptown Playhouse International Film Festival in Los Angeles!! The film also WON 3 MORE AWARDS: 1) Best Director (U.S.) for the awesome director, Bron Theron; 2) Best Picture (U. S.) for the film & the Producers., & 3) Best Cinematography for the FAB DP, Zachary Malloy!!

9) DEC. 2022: A ‘1, 2 Whammy’ of films Heidi is in, took place at the Culver City Film Festival!! :

-First, Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree” screened there, then, the feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED” followed in the next Block of films! & the screen at the Cinemark Theatre is a wonderful place to see your films! & this is a GREAT festival, with wonderful Festival directors!

10) DEC. 2022: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”, WINS for “ Best Musical Comedy Short” at the Culver City Film Festival!!

11) DEC. 2022: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”, WINS for “ Best Comedy Short”, & NOM. as a FINALIST for “Best Lead Actress” by the Sherwood Players International Film Festival in Los Angeles!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR 2021:

1) Heidi JUST BOOKED a role as the female lead in a feature film, but she is under an NDA agreement to not release any info. about it yet. The project will be shooting in October in Michigan, but that’s all we can say at this present time. But it’s a very cool storyline for this one! NEW INFO: Now able to say this was for the feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED”, dir. by Bron Theron, playing opposite Corin Nemec, Jason London & Jordon C. Michael. MORE DETAILS/INFO. ABOUT THE SHOOT IN OCT. 2021 (SCROLL DOWN..) 😁

2) JAN. 2021 - Heidi is in Pre-production for her TV show called, “Read To Me, Heidi”, where Heidi & her side-kick Millicent the mouse puppet, do LIVE-TIME reading & acting all the VO’s for all of the characters in the fairytales & children’s stories that they read. She has one sponsor that is already behind the current project, and she has already a Pilot shot from her original TV Special of the same name. Look more for news about this in the near future!!

NEW INFO: Please join her channel on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@readtomeheidi

3) MARCH 2021: The ROKU Channel releases the TV show Heidi is a part of, “CYPHER”, and is streaming their exclusive Premiere this month! It’s the 1st ever-exclusive original series on ROKU!

4) MAY 2021: Heidi is NOM. as a SEMI-FINALIST for “Best Actress in a Short” by the Hong Kong Indie Film Festival. The screenings had started up again this year with regards to Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”, after being paused due to COVID, where many in-person film festivals were postponed. So, this is FAB news!

5) JULY 2021: Heidi is NOM. as a SEMI-FINALIST for “Best Actress in Short” & “Best Comedy Short” by Niagara Falls International Short Festival, for her musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”.

6) JULY 2021: Heidi shoots a part in a comedic/dramedy feature film, now in many festivals, called “HER & HIM”. She plays a character in an awkward situation, which adds to the dynamic energy & situation between the 2 lead characters of the film. (Trying not to give away the plot here…) The film has a brilliant cast who are also the writers, my friends Susan O’Connor & Christopher Frederick! This also was wonderfully directed by Eric Michael Kochmer.

7) AUGUST 2021: Heidi shoots another comedic character, but this time as a manic, Swedish character, Ursula in the film, “NO RESERVATIONS”, written by the team Flip Kobler & Cindy Marcus, & great direction by Steven LaMorte!

6) AUGUST 2021: Heidi is NOM. as a FINALIST for “Best Actress in Short” & “Best Comedy in Short” by the Toronto Independent Film Festival of CIFT, for her musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”.

7) MAY & AUGUST 2021 - Heidi is continuing from last year to be a part of the 19-person cast that has been LIVE TV Streaming the Tom Cavanaugh suspense thriller called “Now, Now, Now” during this Covid time. It has won over 4 awards to date and counting, in several Fringe Festivals Nationwide, utilizing the Zoom format to tell a compelling story with Orson Welles overtones a la “The War of the Worlds”. It next will be seen as part of the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival, starting in August.

8) OCT. 2021: Heidi goes to Flint, Michigan to shoot the supernatural feature film, “HALF DEAD FRED”, written/dir. by Bron Theron, where Heidi played the female lead of Roberta Dalton. She plays opposite Corin Nemec, Jason London, & Jordan C. Michael. This film has an awesome cast, & a super fantastic crew! It’s a suspenseful, ghost story; a film-noir murder mystery that has FAB actor Corin Nemec as the brilliant detective, (Fred Nash), brought in on the case, initially hired by Roberta to solve the case. - And.. Fred’s area of expertise is: seeing & talking to spirits!

9) OCT. 2021: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”, becomes an Official Selection in the Paris Independent Film Festival to show in mid-October in France!

10) NOV. 2021: Heidi’s musical short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”, is NOM. as a SEMI-FINALIST for “ Best Narrative International Short” by the London International Filmmakers Festival!

11) AT THE 2021 WE MAKE MOVIE INT’L FILM FESTIVAL: HEIDI IS INVOLVED WITH 5 PROJECTS THERE!:

A) WMMIFF Screened the powerful short film, “BEAUTY’S JOURNEY: HER VOYAGE WITHIN”, directed by amazing director, Shila Ommi! This piece was originally commissioned by the L.A. County of the Dept. of Mental Health. Heidi helped as part of the Production team to bring this new shorter version of Shila’s vision to the screen!

B) WMMIFF Screened the short comedic film, “NO RESERVATIONS”, where Heidi played a hilarious, manic Swedish character! Since she does VO, this was a FUN one to do! Written by the team Flip Kobler & Cindy Marcus, & directed by fab director, Steven LaMorte.

C) WMMIFF Screened “HER & HIM” - a HIlarious film, with terrific characters! Heidi played a super Funny character in this! It looked FAB up on the screen, and the audience loved it! Written by lead actors Susan O’Connor & Christopher Frederick, & directed by great director, Eric Michael Kochmer.

D) WMMIFF Screened the Webs series Heidi “Scripty-ed” on, “EX-SISTERS-IN-LAW” - Terrific episodes were selected- loved by all! Hilariously written by lead actors Allison Youngberg & Suzan Miliel, & also directed by Suzan.

E) WMMIFF Screened the wonderful feature film, Heidi “Scripty-ed” on in 2019, “SMOKE, LILLIES & JADE”. This is a beautiful film, and it has WON awards for the story, of how the 2 main characters come together in a love relationship, against all odds. Written by Robert Philipson & Co-Directed by the Emmy award-winning team Deondray Gossfield & Quincy LeNear Gossfield!

12) 2021: Heidi shot several characters for the sketch show “The Groad Show”, a zoom-inspired comedic tale of the devil on Earth helping one man with his relationships, written/dir. by Stephen Kogon.

13) Please. look up on imdb.me/heidischooler.com OR resumes.actorsaccess.com/heidischooler for the most current info. with regards to Heidi’s newest projects, Thanks so much!!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR 2020:

1) BEG. 2020: Heidi shoots the second section of her episode in the role of Scarlett Watkins for the TV Series “First List” (AKA “CYPHER”), starring Martin Dinglewall, & directed/written by award-winning Majdi Smiri! - NEW INFO: This series can now be seen on the ROKU Channel!

2) JAN. 2020: Heidi shoots the role of a Sexy Brunette in the parody “The Covid Bunch”, a take-off on “The Brady Bunch” song/theme for the “Shelter Skelter - Comedy Under Quarantine” comedy troupe. = Proving that people STILL are creating during this Covid situation in our Industry.

3) MAY 2020: Heidi shot a reprise of her Ella character for a short comedic film “Love Craft”- a short film inspired by the dating woes (or comedic scenarios) in the dating scene written/directed by Michael Beardsley. - Heidi also brought along Millicent (her Mouse puppet side-kick from her short film, “Millicent & Me and The Apple Tree”), to join in on the craziness of what people are looking for when they are dating out there, in the world today.

4) OCT. 2020: The TV show “CYPHER”, Heidi played Scarlett Watkins in, has been voted a part of the Top 10 TV shows in South Aftrica, & it now also is a part of Netflix Tunisia’s top shows. - NEW INFO: This series can now be seen on the ROKU Channel!

5) NOV. 2020: The comedic short film, “Art Attack”, which Heidi has written, is being read as part of the We Make Movies community, with a fantastic cast! This is a fun, female-driven comedy, that definitely is uplifting & hilarious! More details ahead re: this script!

6) NOV. 2020: Heidi is part of the Production team that assists director Shila Ommi to re-shape her award-winning feature film, into a powerful short film version called, ““BEAUTY’S STORY: HER VOYAGE WITHIN”. - Stay tuned to hear more about where this will be screening soon!

7) 2020: Heidi performs in the script reading of the wonderful thriller script “Tarot 911”, written by great writer David "O’Hara at the community called, We Make Movies.

8) DEC. 2020- 2021 - Heidi was & still is a part of the 19-person cast that has been LIVE streaming the Tom Cavanaugh suspense thriller called “Now, Now, Now” during this Covid time. It has won over 4 awards to date and counting, in several Fringe Festivals Nationwide, utilizing the zoom format to tell a compelling story with Orson Welles overtones a la “The War of the Worlds” . It next will be seen as part of the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

9) DEC. 2020 - 2021: Heidi recorded a Radio Drama (Podcast) called THE BELLING PROGRAM - and played the Lead of the evil Dr. Naomi Belling, as well as the Narrator. This original story was written and Dir: by Logan Weisberg, & will be on FL. Radio & iTunes.