At its June 10–12, '05 event in Palm Springs, the Southern California Writers' Conference's Script-to-Screen track made its sophmore bow in the desert. A condensed version of the Indie Filmmaker's Bootcamp, the STS enables participants to write, cast and craft a short film with professional filmmakers over the course of three days.

With a storyline developed Friday, in which a hired killer confides his life – and death – in a suicidal woman, The Hit Me was shot on location Saturday thru Sunday noon, with the rough cut seen here completed mere hours later.

The STS filmmakers were:

• Nicholas Berry, gaffer
• Anton Diether, screenwriter
• Stan Foster, executive producer
• Michael Steven Gregory, director
• Ross Kallen, producer
• Jim Orr, cinematographer
• John Rosenberg, editor
• Thomas B. Sawyer, screenwriter

To see the polished version of The Hit Me check in October (hopefully), when all the titles, color correction, sound effects, credits, proper music, etc. have been incorporated.

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