Mulatto Saga Gets TV Deal at the Sundance Film Festival

Actress Juliette Fairley emerged from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival last month with a syndicated television distribution deal for the short film Mulatto Saga which was adapted from a solo show she performed on Broadway in New York and at the Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks in 2010.

"I am thrilled that a part of my story will finally see the light of day on television and eventually in theaters nationwide," said Fairley who stars in the short along with Cassidy Knight, Patrick Shane, Sara Visser, Gary Fletcher, Yacine Simpore and Kaylee Souther. "It's a film whose time has come."
She carried 15 copies of her completed 7 minute short film to Sundance to distribute to heavy hitter producers such as Hustle & Flow's Stephanie Allaine, Middle of Nowhere's Howard Barish, Spike Lee and many others. Instead of a film deal, she landed a tv syndication deal.

"It was unexpected. I am surprised but very pleased," said Fairley.

Airing on NBC, CBS, ABC and the CW TV networks in August 2012, the 7 minute film discusses Fairley's difficult romantic relationship with a white boyfriend as it relates to her childhood growing up with a Caucasian French mother and an African American military father. It also features Fairley speaking French with newcomer Yacine Simpore, a French African who hails from Paris.

"My vision now is to begin filming the feature length version of my story in the Spring," said Fairley.
The New York and Los Angeles resident is best known for booking a role in the Spike Lee-directed tv pilot for NBC called MONY in 2007 and most recently a co-starring role in the Biography Channel's Celebrity Ghost Stories, a supporting role in Kent Moran's independent feature film The Challenger and in The Roots new music video for iPhone apps directed by Rik Cordero.

The stage play was directed by Charles Burnett in 2010 while the short film was directed by Michael Pinckney in 2011. A director for the feature film rendition of Mulatto Saga has yet to be named.

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