UPDATE: Video Trailer for Celebrity Pug's Dark Comedy Set in Healdsburg

Shooting has wrapped up and editing begun in Healdsburg for "The Other Dog," a new short film by Healdsburg writer Elizabeth Cosin starring a pug named Ulysses with attitude.

Organizers plan to submit the film to the inaugural Healdsburg International Short Film Festival in September.

Formerly the , the event has been moved to Healdsburg, a village-type city in the northern section of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County "Wine Country."

More than $1,600 of the $3,000 needed to finance "The Other Dog" has been raised through a website called IndieGogo.com.

To contribute more, or to find out about the campaign, click here.

"We want to show the world that, while we are winemakers and farmers, olive oil producers, fine chefs, butchers, bakers and, yes, candlestick makers in Healdsburg, we are also writers and actors and filmmakers," Cosin said on the website.

She describes "The Other Dog" as "a kind of Coen-brothers comic thriller set in Healdsburg that is written, produced, directed, filmed, crewed and will star almost exclusively people who live right here in Healdsburg," Cosin said.

"Even the co-star, Ulysses the Pug, lives here," Cosin added.

The film is about a woman who is going through a contentious divorce and when her husband decides to use her beloved pug as a pawn, she must take matters into her own hands.

Cosin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1285688/), a correspondent for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat,  has been a writer/producer for such TV shows as Law & Order: Criminal Intent and 24 and is the author of the well-regarded mystery series featuring Santa Monica private detective Zen Moses.

She and her husband relocated to Healdsburg six years ago and live there with their two pugs, Ulysses and his uncle, Chamuco.

This will be her second short film. Most of the cast and crew are local, amazingly talented artists. Elizabeth's partner on the creative side is Elliott E. Harris, who studied cinemography and editing at Brooks Institute and attended Berkeley Digital Film Institute with an emphasis on writing and directing.

 Money raised through IndieGogo will go toward such equipment as:

Red Scarlett Digital Camera and lenses, lighting, sound mixer and equipment rental, daily pay rate for sound engineer and other crew, truck rental and transportation costs, craft service supplies, and post-production.

"Everyone who donates $15 or more will get a special “signed” photograph of our pug co-star Ulysses, a thank you card and a personal acknoweldgement on our website and social networking," Cosin said.

"For $30 or more, you'll get a special limited edition  'Feed the Pug' t-shirt produced for our film crew by fabulous local illustrator Nicole Kaufman (check out her website www.slippysalad.com)," she added.

"For $100 or more, you'll be thanked in the end credits (your name in lights!) and for $150, you'll get a copy of the limited edition movie poster for the film," she noted.

Other perks and ways to contribute are listed on the IndieGogo website page.