Carrie Preston, Mark Holmes and James Vasquez formed Daisy 3 Pictures in 2004 to create high caliber films for audiences that are often overlooked by the typical film studios. Since the formation of Daisy 3 Pictures, they have produced three productions. Their first feature, 29th and Gay, written by James Vasquez and directed by Carrie Preston was acquired by TLA Releasing for North American DVD, internet and television distribution. It also played on Italian television and Here!TV. Their second project, the short film Feet of Clay, written by David Caudle and directed by Carrie, did the festival circuit in 2007. Their second feature film, shot in the summer of 2007, Ready? OK!, was written and directed by James Vasquez. It features Carrie Preston, John Preston, Lurie Poston, Michael Emerson, and Kali Rocha. It was acquired for North American distribution in 2008 by Wolfe Releasing and was released on DVD in 2009, and is also available via digital download on iTunes and on cable TV on VH1 Networks’ LOGO.
Carrie Preston, primarily known as an actress, has been steadily working since graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School in 1994. Her films include Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity; John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, Alan Ball’s Towelhead; Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, That Evening Sun; and Seattle Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner Lovely by Surprise, directed by Kirt Gunn. Other films include: Transamerica; Straight-Jacket; Stepford Wives; My Best Friend’s Wedding; Mercury Rising; For Richer or Poorer; The Journey; The Cradle Will Rock; Guinevere; Woman Wanted.
She is a series regular on the hit HBO show True Blood, created by Alan Ball. Other TV includes: Lost; Desperate Housewives; Arrested Development; Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Numbers; Hope and Faith; Wonder Falls; Good Morning, Miami; Sex and the City; Spin City; The Inside; Union Square; Significant Others; and Trinity, as well as the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Grace and Glorie and the sitcom Emeril.
Her stage work includes: Broadway: Festen; The Rivals; The Tempest. Off-Broadway: Cycling Past the Matterhorn; Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center) Boys and Girls; Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons) Antony and Cleopatra (Public Theater); Straight-Jacket (Playhouse 91); The Libertine (Theatre Row). Regional theater: Hamlet (McCarter), Fran’s Bed (Long Wharf); Virginia Woolf (Guthrie); Taming of the Shrew (Williamstown) Cherry Orchard; She Stoops to Conquer; No Foreigners Beyond this Point (Baltimore Center Stage); Hamlet (Alabama Shakespeare)
JAMES VASQUEZ is an actor, writer, and director originally from San Diego, CA. As an actor he’s appeared Off-Broadway with the New York Public Theatre, regionally at the Old Globe Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and on film and television, portraying everything from the ditzy Ms. West Coast vying for the tiara in the musical “Pageant”, a potentially murderous hairdresser in “Shear Madness”, and a wide range of Whos down in Whoville in Jack O’Brien’s annual hit production of “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. He has been responsible for re-staging the San Diego production of “The Grinch” for the past seven years.
On a dare, James performed a stand-up routine Caroline’s Comedy Club in NYC, which led to invitations to perform at clubs on both coasts. His first feature film as a screenwriter, “29th and Gay”, played the national and international gay and lesbian film festival circuits in 2005. It was released on DVD by TLA Releasing in April of 2007, and made its here! Television debut in December of the same year. His second feature film, “Ready? OK!”, was inspired by a failed attempt in 2nd grade to participate in a school pep rally. “Ready? OK!” is his feature film directorial debut.
Mr. Vasquez is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama in New York City.
Mark Holmes is the co-founder with James Vasquez and Carrie Preston of Daisy 3 Pictures. He has served as Executive Producer on both 29th and Gay and Ready? OK!, as well as providing technical, editorial and production manager roles on most D3P work.
He comes to film production by unconventional roads, having arrived at Daisy 3 Pictures after work that ranges from a stint in the US Navy, bartending, and faux-finishing, to work as a print journalist in the 1990s. He is proficient in Final Cut Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, et al. and dabbles in several other NLEs, including Sony Vegas Pro, moving comfortably from the numerous Windows and Mac OSX platforms on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
He is responsible for the maintenance and daily running of Daisy 3 Pictures’ San Diego offices, its’ websites and administrative responsibilities.