Ian Mackley

The Hollywood Shorties (2016)
Film (Documentary, History and Sport) Composer The Hollywood Shorties is a documentary on the birth of organized sports in the American dwarf community. Beginning in the 1950s and rising to prominence in the 1980s, the Hollywood Shorties were a basketball team, the first of their kind and unique in the history of dwarf athletics. Formed from an insular community of recognizable-but-typecast actors in - wait for it - Hollywood, the team began simply as a rare outlet for little people to gather publicly. As the team's athletic skill increased, so did its membership and so too its popularity. By the early 1980s, the Shorties had created a niche in entertainment akin to the Harlem Globetrotters, playing exhibitions from Gladstone High to the Fabulous Forum with their signature blend of comedy and basketball prowess. Simultaneously, they found themselves the vanguard of a revolutionary movement to bring little people into the public eye as something other than objects of curiosity. But, in a bittersweet turn, the very popularity that ... Written by Kevin Oeser

Trick (2009)
Film (Short and Mystery) Composer A short film about mystery, murder, and the wonders of youth.

Matilda (2009)
Film (Short and Comedy) Composer When a stray cat leads her to the love of her life, Matilda will stop at nothing (including murder and car wrecks) to win his heart.

Raccoon (2008)
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