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Mimi Maynard
Acting
Biography
Mimi Maynard has spent the last 15 years as a Producer, Casting and Voice Director of Animated Features. Her credits include Fly Me To The Moon, the first stereoscopic 3D animated feature, Sammy's Adventures: A Turtle's Tale grossing over 100 million dollars and nominated for Best Animated Feature -European Film Awards, won for Best Feature Film Cartoon Movies 2010 and Trophee du Film European, A Turtle's Tale Escape From Paradise (sequel to Sammy's Adventure), Turtle Vision 3D Animated Ride Attraction, Sammy and Ray 3D Animated Ride Attraction, Fly Me To The Moon 3D Animated Ride Attraction, Thunder and The House of Magic, The Wild Life aka Robinson Crusoe and The Legend of Big Foot all in 3D Stereoscopic Animation. Mimi and her Partner, Paulette Lifton, are currently adapting, casting and voice directing for various independent animation companies all over the world. Ms Maynard and Ms Lifton are developing an animated series with Nancy Cartwright and Spotted Cow Entertainment. Ms. Maynard along with Ms. Lifton have Cast and Directed numerous projects for both animation and live action including dubbing for many International Companies over the last 15 years. Prior to her animation credits, Mimi worked on many TV and Film projects as an Actress as well Sound Design and ADR and Voice Over. Her dubbing experience includes, scheduling, casting, celebrity casting, voice directing, and hiring the talent for translating, transcribing, writing, music lyricist singers, conductor, and music lyric replacement. On the production side, she was co-owner of various production companies recruiting talent and developing projects for Management, Television and Motion Pictures. She produced and oversaw development of the Japanese television series Gundam into an American made-for-television movie.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Hawmps!
In old-west Texas, the cavalry's horses can't take the heat. So the military sends them camels instead, and assigns one man to convince the unit that the camels are a good idea.
Washington Mistress
Maggie Parker, a U.S. Senator's ambitious aide, falls head over heels for her boss' chief adversary, Michael Reynolds, a high-powered lobbyist who happens to be married with children. Both mismatched lovers become involved in a long-running affair.
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
The name Michael O'Hara has become synonymous with law enforcement. There have been three generations of Michael O'Haras and all have been exemplary policemen. When Michael O'Hara III's child was born he was told that they would not be able to have any more children, and there has always been a Michael O'Hara, so he named his child Michael O'Hara IV despite the fact that she is a girl. Now Mike has a tendency to get involved with police matters and not always with good results, which annoys her father. And despite being told repeatedly to stay out of it, she continues her amateurish detective activities.
Go Ask Alice
A 15-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Blood Sport
A searing commentary on the "win at all costs" mentality of American high school sports. David Lee Birdsong is the smalltown quarterback hoping to escape with a college scholarship and a pro career. David's father is the overbearing taskmaster vicariously living through his son. The third side of the triangle is Coach Marshall, a hypercritical and cruel man who sees David as the key to his future success. David's lockstep commitment to his father and coach is altered when he witnesses a teammate die after a grueling practice.
Underground Aces
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.
Private Benjamin
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Hart to Hart
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
Harrad Summer
Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
The Experts
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they've actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training, is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies, and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?
Production
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy races across the beach to the ocean while avoiding being caught by seagulls and crabs. Thus begins Sammy's incredible fifty-year ocean journey where he overcomes obstacles, both natural and man-made, while trying to fulfill his dream of travelling around the world. Along the way he meets his best friend, a fellow turtle named Ray, and never forgets about Shelly, a turtle he saved that first day on the beach and the one he's always loved.
Latte and the Magic Waterstone
When a greedy bear steals a magic stone to keep the forest’s water for himself, a brave hedgehog and a timid squirrel must work together to retrieve it.