Praise for HER LOVER HER LOVER is an evocative short pitting Sandy and Cecil, two new parents, against the past they shared, the secrets that haunt them, and the choices that brought them to their new life. Mary Healy brings a heartfelt yearning to the role of SANDY, striving to understand the effects on her life of her mother’s decisions about her lover, her unborn-child, and her life. Michael Emery is emotional and steely in turns as the lover who fears telling too much about the past and jeopardizing his future. Viewers are left wanting more and wondering what choices they might make in a similar situation. HER LOVER is a cautionary tale, a too real allegory, and a haunting expression of closeness, which brings a beautiful cinematic depth of technique in rich color and drama, to spotlight multi-layered familial emotions of deception, tension, and fear. Our brilliant cast navigates the delicate present while besieged by the treachery of memory and the past.
Writer/Director/Producer
FPP Projects
HER LOVER , the short film- post production PRESS RELEASE
HER LOVER , the feature - pre-production
THE DAY ELVIS DIED - pre production
Elizabeth Stuelke
Elizabeth Stuelke, founder of Fuzzy Pancakes Productions, has been writing and directing for over 10-years and has recently completed the Sundance Directing Actors Lab. Her short Her Lover (2024) is nominated for Best Short North America, Best Female Filmmaker USA, and Best Cinematography USA in TINFF. As a writer and director she helps tell stories about families, where she and her team explore and re-create the palpable love and distress that the closeness of family can cause. Elizabeth’s films highlight the unyielding love that can stifle and the unwavering return of love, at times, even from those most harmed.
Elizabeth is a dual member of NYWIFV and WIFV DC, and has worked with executives Steve Douglas-Craig and Grahame Wood (Maclachlan Wood). She was a director and executive producer on the WIVF DC "Making Shorts" contest winner, "Waiting for Galdot," which has garnered numerous festival selections since its premiere in Washington, DC, 2023.
And is in pre-production as Director and Co-Producer for the short The Day Elvis Died, written by Robyne Parrish, coming 2025.
Directing Projects
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HER LOVER, short in post-production. Winner at Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival Screening September 13, 2:24 pm, 2024.
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HER LOVER, feature in pre-production for Spring 2025.
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THE DAY ELVIS DIED in pre-production, written by Robyne Parrish, Spring 2025.
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WIVF DC "Making Shorts" contest winner, WAITING FOR GALDOT which has garnered numerous festival selections since its premiere in Washington, DC, 2023.
2018-2024 Acting Projects
Fuzzy Pancakes videos
Fuzzy Pancakes videos
SavingSavana_YouCanDoIt_1
Grief
Wailing
Project Descriptions
As actor, writer, producer, or director I've been involved in these films and I'm happy to showcase them here.
2023 Short Film
Director Elizabeth Stuelke
Reality clashes with the meta-verse, when seven employees gathering for a celebratory end of year Chinese dinner have their lives upended, when their fortune cookies begin controlling their fate.
2020 Feature
“Saving Savanna" tells the story of a suicidal young adult, Savanna Winslow. She ended her lease, gave away her car, and cut all ties before jumping from the local bridge. However, after her suicide attempt fails, Savanna is faced with a decision: to live or finish what she started. Written and Directed by A.C. Bryan.
2019 Music Video
Lucinda,
Writer, Singer (w/ SOLID), Producer
“Lucinda” the title represents an amalgam of all the wonderful people who took care of our first child so that I could still work while we lived in NYC. This is a tribute to them featuring family images over the years.
2018 DC 48hr Film
Child's Play,
Writer, Producer, "Tina"
A black comedy where a family on the edge of collapse gets hope for a new beginning with a little the help from the kids. Produced by Fuzzy Pancakes Productions. Written and produced by e. Stuelke, starring as “Tina."
2021 Short Film
A cop and his family cope with the aftermath of a fatal miscalculation. Directed by Nicholas Loughran Blauner.
2020 Short Film
Wailing, Director Charlie Parker
"Marion"
Mira visits her grandmother at various stages of her decline in health. The family fights over who should make decisions for Deirdre; tensions between the children run high. Mira feels like her grandmother is too far gone for her to bear and forgoes saying goodbye. At the funeral, Mira goes to look at the body but becomes upset that Deirdre's nails have not been taken care of the way she remembers from her childhood. She talks to Archie, who tells her that it would have been nice if she spent more time with her grandmother in her final days. Official selection for IndieX Film festival and Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.