Month / January 2016

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Bite-sized blog post: Nancy Savoca

Nancy-Savoca

NANCY SAVOCA graduated with an MFA from NYU and then went on to self-fund her first feature True Love (1989) which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. She then went on to direct Dogfight (1991) for Warner Brothers.

She continues to direct independent films and for television. Her company Cine-Si is a collaboration with her husband, film producer Rich Guay.

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Where to watch her films:

iTunes

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Twitter
Nancy Savoca’s Website
Interview
Roger Ebert Article
Los Angeles Times
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015If There Be Thorns (TV Movie) (attached)
 2003Dirt
 2002Reno: Rebel Without a Pause (Documentary)
 2001The Mind of the Married Man (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Anywhere, Anytime (2001)
 2000Third Watch (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Know Thyself (2000)
 1996If These Walls Could Talk (TV Movie) (segments “1952”, “1974”)
 1995Murder One (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Chapter Five (1995)
 1995Dark Eyes (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Pilot (1995)
 1991Dogfight
 1989/ITrue Love
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Bite-sized blog post: Leslie Harris

Leslie Harris

Leslie Harris with Redford

 

LESLIE HARRIS was the first African American woman to win a Special Jury Prize at Sundance with her debut feature film Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992). She got distribution for the film with Miramax for the self-financed, self-produced feature which she edited on her own in her apartment.

Harris teaches at New York University and is fundraising for her feature I Love Cinema. 

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Finder her on Twitter
Leslie Harris’ Blog
SUBWAY RIDER Leslie Harris’s Low-Budget Trip.
20th Anniversary Screening Of ‘Just Another Girl On The I.R.T.’ + Panel Discussion w/ Leslie Harris (NYC)
Entertainment Weekly
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

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Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Holofcener

 

Nicole Holofcener

 

At the beginning of her studies at Columbia’s MFA program NICOLE HOLOFCENER considered herself a screenwriter  but soon realized she liked directing her own work.

After graduating she directed her first feature, a Sundance Film Festival favorite Walking and Talking (1996) and her character driven comedies have led to comparisons with Woody Allen but she has a style all her own.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

HULU

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Interview
Nicole Holofcener Nails It
Variety
Nicole Holofcener’s Beautiful Imperfections
DGA
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

One Mississippi (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Pilot (2015)
2015Orange Is the New Black (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Fake It Till You Fake It Some More (2015)
 2015Inside Amy Schumer (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Last F… Able Day (2015) … (segment “Last Fuckable Day”)
2015Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Kimmy Goes to a Party! (2015)
 2015Togetherness (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Ghost in Chains (2015)
 2011-2013Parks and Recreation (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– The Pawnee-Eagleton Tip Off Classic (2013)
– Jerry’s Retirement (2013)
– Smallest Park (2011)
– Eagleton (2011)
 2013Enough Said
 2011-2013Enlightened (TV Series) (2 episodes)
– The Key (2013)
– Not Good Enough Mothers (2011)
 2011I Hate That I Love You (TV Movie)
 2010Please Give
 2009Bored to Death (TV Series) (1 episode)
– The Case of the Stolen Sperm (2009)
 2006Friends with Money
 2003-2004Six Feet Under (TV Series) (2 episodes)
– Bomb Shelter (2004)
– Timing & Space (2003)
 2002Leap of Faith (TV Series) (pilot)
 2002Gilmore Girls (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Secrets and Loans (2002)
 2001Lovely & Amazing
 1998-2000Sex and the City (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– Are We Sluts? (2000)
– No Ifs, Ands or Butts (2000)
– Three’s a Crowd (1998)
– Bay of Married Pigs (1998)
 1999Cold Feet (TV Series) (pilot)
 1996Walking and Talking
 1991Angry (Short)

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Bite-sized blog post: Lena Dunham

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LENA DUNHAM began her career making short films that got tons of hits on Youtube.

Her parents told her that they would pay for her to go to graduate school or fund a feature film. Dunham chose to make her first feature Tiny Furniture (2010).

She went on to utilize social media to gain notoriety and create the hit series Girls for HBO.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
It’s Different for ‘Girls’ – Lena Dunham’s new show is like nothing else on TV.
Find her on Instagram
Lena Dunham Website
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Girls (TV Series) (7 episodes, 2013 – 2014) (written by – 29 episodes, 2012 – 2015) (created by – 20 episodes, 2015 – 2016)

– Episode #5.9 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.8 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.7 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.6 (2016) … (creator)
– Episode #5.5 (2016) … (creator)
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 2014/IIICover Girl (Short) (writer)
 2013Choose You (Short)
 2013/IBest Friends (Short) (written by)
 2012Nobody Walks (written by)
 2010Tiny Furniture (written by)
 2009Creative Nonfiction (written by)
 2009Delusional Downtown Divas (TV Series) (writer)
 2007Tight Shots (TV Series)
 2006Dealing (Short) (written by)
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Bite-sized blog-post: Joan Micklin Silver

Joan Micklin Silver

 

A producer once told her, “Feature films are expensive to make and expensive to market and women directors are one more problem we don’t need.” In response  her husband insisted that they raise the funds and give her the chance to make a movie.

Silver went on to direct Hester Street (1975) and along with her husband and a few others successfully self distributed – before the age of the internet.

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Where to watch her films:

FANDOR

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Facebook
“Women Directors are One More Problem We Don’t Need”: Joan Micklin Silver on Chilly Scenes of Winter
Turner Classic Movies
Film Directors Site
Jewish Women’s Archive
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2003Hunger Point (TV Movie)
 2002Charms for the Easy Life (TV Movie)
 1999Invisible Child (TV Movie)

 1995Sisters (TV Series) (1 episode)

– For Everything a Season: Part 1 (1995)
 1992A Private Matter (TV Movie)
 1991Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (TV Movie) (segment “2”)
 1989Loverboy
 1985Finnegan Begin Again (TV Movie)
 1976Bernice Bobs Her Hair (TV Movie)
 1973The Fur Coat Club (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Ana Lily Amirpour

Ana Lily Amirpour

The feature debut of ANA LILY AMIRPOUR, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014),  an “Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western” which includes a graphic comic as supplemental material and is based on a short she made of the same name, premiered at Sundance.

Amirpour moved to the United Stated from England when she was little and first became exposed to movie making and American culture by watching the making of video of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. She then went on to study film at UCLA.

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Where to watch her films:

NETFLIX

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Find her on Instagram
Filmmaker Interview
The skateboarding Iranian vampire diaries
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Film School Shorts (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Growing Pains (2013)
 2012I Feel Stupid (Short) (story) / (writer)
 2012The Garlock Incident (story)
 2012A Little Suicide (Short)
 2011Pashmaloo (Short)
 2010Ketab (Short)
 2010/ITrue Love (Short)
 2009/IIYou (Short) (story)
 2009Six and a Half (Short) (writer)
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Bite-sized blog post: Clea DuVall

Clea DuVall

CLEA DUVALL began her career as an actress and has appeared in numerous movies and television shows.

Her success as an actress has given her the opportunity to transition into directing and her first feature film The Intervention premieres at Sundance.

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Where to watch her films:

VIDEO INTERVIEW ON HER SUNDANCE PREMIERE

Stay Tuned for distribution of her THE INTERVENTION after its Sundance premiere.

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Clea DuVall’s directorial debut will be a partial But I’m A Cheerleader reunion
Clea DuVall Making Directorial Debut With Film Starring Cobie Smulders, Melanie Lynskey
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

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Bite-sized blog post: Sian Heder

 

Sian Heder

SIAN HEDER attended the AFI Directing Workshop for Women where she directed her first short film Mother (2006) which made it into Cannes’ Cinefondation.

After completing that program Heder went on to join the writing team of Men of a Certain Age and Orange is the New Black. She directed another short starring Zachery Quinto, Dog Eat Dog (2012) which she funded with a Kickstarter campaign.Her first feature premieres at Sundance in 2016 with Netflix already in place as a distributor.

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Where to watch her films:

Do a Search on NETFLIX …  her film Tallulah coming soon…

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Twitter
Website for Short Film Mother
Los Angeles Times
Netflix Buys Sian Heder’s ‘Tallulah,’ Starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney
Ellen Page, Allison Janney to star in Route One’s ‘Tallulah’
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2012Dog Eat Dog (Short)
 2006/IMother (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt

KELLY REICHARDT almost missed the debut her first feature film at Sundance, River of Grass (1994) because she couldn’t afford the plane ticket across country and got stuck on a train that took five days instead of three to make the trek.

Many of Reichardt’s films are set and shot in Oregon and she is known for character driven pieces including Wendy and Lucy (2008) starring Michelle Williams who she reunites with for her most recent film Certain Women premiering at Sundance.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (PRIME-STREAMING)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE

FANDOR

 

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Interview with Gus Van Sant
To make the movies she wanted, Kelly Reichardt had to go it alone.
Variety Honoree Kelly Reichardt: Still on the Side of the Outsiders
Kelly Reichardt: ‘My films are just glimpses of people passing through’
Senses of Cinema
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2009Travis (Video short)
 2006Old Joy
 2001Then a Year (Short)
 1999Ode
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Bite-sized blog post: Elizabeth Wood

Elizabeth Wood

ELIZABETH WOOD runs a production company with her husband Gabriel Nussbaum where they directed and produced their first feature, Wade in the Water (2007), a documentary of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Wood has been included in the 2016 Variety list of “10 Directors to Watch” and her first feature narrative film White Girl (2016), Executive Produced by Christine Vachon premieres at Sundance!

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Where to watch her films:

INDIEPIX FILMS

VIMEO

Stay tuned for distribution of her Sundance Premiere White Girl

Read more about her:

ONLINE
Find her on Twitter
Find her on Instagram
Bank Street Films Website (Wood’s production company)
WHITE GIRL’ BE THIS GENERATION’S ‘KIDS’?
Variety – 10 Directors to Watch
Wade in the Water website

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2011Loft (Short)
 2010/IIAutopilot (Short)
 2010/ICut Throat (Short)
 2007Wade in the Water, Children (Documentary)