SOMEONE LIKE ME (Feature Workshops w/10+ directors and a set of twin female hair-dressers: https://vimeo.com/159649439

Walking on Solano Ave. in North Berkeley I looked in a hair salon and saw the twins, dressed identically, cutting hair. The mirrors made them QUADRUPLETS! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/someonelikeme/

Margaret and Mary Craig, who enjoyed being as identical as possible.

SOMEONE LIKE ME is a love story unlike any most of us can understand. We can all experience the love of a mother, father, friend, spouse, brother or sister. Few of us can know the love of a twin—it is a truly spiritual experience. Mary and Margaret share this special bond. Craig (Craig Strong) and Finn (Finn Curtin), their respective boyfriends, are privileged guests in this world. When the identical twins suspect each other's boyfriends of infidelities and disinterest they hatch a plot to test the men. Switching identities becomes the ultimate test of their twinship.
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Actors/Male Leads, Finn Curtin and Craig Strong.

Since my Feature Workshops began producing movies in 1993, with a film called BLUES FOR THE AVATAR, we have produced 17 feature films. SOMEONE LIKE ME (1997) was our second attempt at the impossible – completing a feature in just ten days (five-days shooting, five-days editing). And the ten writer/director collaborators were a wildly diverse bunch.

Cast ands crew of SOMEONE LIKE ME, including DP Gary Rohan (cinematographer on PROSPECTS: <https://vimeo.com/ondemand/prospects>), on dolly, framing shot).

Here's their list, updated for their recent accomplishments: Doreen Alexander (Child) – author of "Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind," Ned Barth – baritone opera star, Mark Fogarty – filmmaker/Rhode Island Film Collaborative, Greg Gerson – cartoonist, Steve Heffner – Emmy-nominated editor/filmmaker, Andrew Hettinger – filmmaker, Virginia Saenz McCarthy – filmmaker/social activist, James O'Brien – scriptwriter, Mark Toscani – artist, and Robert J. Weythman – filmmaker. Produced by Morgan Schmidt-Feng and Rick Schmidt. LEAD ACTORS; Finn Curtin – actor (Black Irish, Jonah), and Craig strong. DP Gary Rohan, sound Greg Von Buchau with boom Jack Childs, & crucial Assistant Director Brad Marshland. Music by Paul Baker, Suzanna Aguayo (end credits).

Real-Life Stories

“Wouldn’t tell her age”––Craig Strong.

“Star 65”—Finn Curtin.

“Relationship at 14”. Margaret Craig.

“Engaged to be marriedº––Mary Craig.

“Dancing to accordions”Brandie Smith.

“Men at Arms Length” Doreen Alexander.

Security Guard story”––Mark Forarty

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"Forty-plus years after his 1975 feature filmmaking debut, American Independent Rick Schmidt remains a free-wheeling derring-do filmmaker holding fast to the notion that people's real lives are more truly dramatic, hilarious, exciting and as exasperating as those manufactured by Hollywood's minions. Most everyone falls in and out of love, rejects and gets rejected, contends with failure and success, hatred, ambition, the death of loved ones...It's all there.

To capture real life on film, Schmidt fashions a creative weave out of the threads of narrative, documentary, and docu-drama film forms. His actors draw on their own experience enabling him to create a unique blend of fact and fiction. In the end, Schmidt makes art and life intermingle and imitate each other."
— Vic Skolnick, CINEMA ARTS CENTRE (<https://cinemaartscentre.org/about-us/mission/>)