Malindi Fickle
| Malindi Fickle | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship |
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| Occupation | Actress, Filmmaker, Editor, Producer, Writer |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | Jason Brand |
| Children | 3 |
Malindi Fickle is an actor/director who was based out of New York City but now resides in Honolulu, HI. She attended New York University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2002. She got her start in acting in an indie film called "Eyes of the Prey" and eventually made the transition into directing in 2006 with "By The People".
Malindi cites her favourite film being as Paper Moon (film) but only after she worked on her film "Suck it Up Buttercup" as she was able to look back on it when she first saw it at the age of 9 with her father and get a better understand of the film itself and why her father had allowed her to watch it.
Malindi started out in the New York theatre scene where she was a director and actor.
She got her training at "The School for Film & Television" and "Michael Howard Studios" for acting. She got her first part in Eyes of the Prey by playing an extra in the courtroom scenes of the film. She got her first lead when she played Megan in Jacklight. She continued to star in movies such as Everything Relative (as Candy) and St. Andrew's Girls (as Jennifer) before making her way into directing.
Her first attempt at directing was with the film "By the People", a film about keeping democracy alive which was shown nationwide on PBS. She created the company Hyperbaric Productions in order to produce it. Her next project was "Suck it Up Buttercup" which was released in 2014 and is about drug addiction. Unlike her previous film, which was a documentary, this one was in the genre of drama. The shooting of "Suck it Up Buttercup" happened over 28 days but took over 2 years of editing to get it to where she felt comfortable with the finished product.
Attended New York University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2002.
Malindi Fickle currently resides in Honolulu, HI with her family. She has also lived in New York City, where she also based her company out of while there and also lived in Tokyo, on two separate occasions. She was also able to get her start in New York City when she was there by breaking into theatre.
She is married to Jason Brand, president in Tokyo of Merrill Lynch Pacific Rim and has 3 children with him.
She created Hyperbaric Productions in order to help produce films in which she wanted to create.
The film "By The People" takes an inside look into the elections that were held in 2004 in the United States. This election was held between the Democratic representative John Kerry and Republican George W. Bush The film was released in 2006, two years after the elections. There was an even more closer look at this election because of the 2000 chad controversy which plagued the balloting in which numerous ballots needed to be thrown out because of voting machines not recording the votes correctly.
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