Bite-sized blog post: So Yong Kim

So Yong Kim

SO YONG KIM is a Korean born director who grew up in Los Angeles. She first delved into filmmaking through producing her husband’s film Salt (2003) and then decided she wanted to write and direct a film of her own film and embarked on her directorial debut with In Between Days (2003) which her husband produced.

Her most recent film For Ellen stars Paul Dano and premieres at Sundance 2016!

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For Ellen: director So Yong Kim on how she snared her star Paul Dano
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Lovesong (as So-yong Kim) (completed)
 2014Spark and Light (Short) (as So-yong Kim)
 2012For Ellen (as SoYong Kim)
 20113.11 Sense of Home (Documentary short) (segment “Untitled”, as So-yong Kim)
 2009Chinatown Film Project (as So-yong Kim)
 2008Na-moo-eobs-neun san (as So-yong Kim)
 2006In Between Days (as So-yong Kim)

Bite-sized blog post: Meera Menon

Meera Menon

Farah Goes Bang premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, where MEERA MENON was awarded the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize for a groundbreaking female filmmaker.

Her next film Equity, touted as the first female-driven Wall Street Movie, stars Anna Gunn (star of Breaking Bad) and premieres at Sundance!

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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2009Mark in Argentina (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Lisa Cholodenko

Lisa Cholodenko

LISA CHOLODENKO began her work in film as an Assistant Editor (post-production assistant) on Boy’z in the Hood (1991) and then went on to get her MFA from Columbia.

Her first full-length film High Art (1998) featured Ally Sheedy who was part of a group of actors from the 1980s known as the “Brat Pack.” Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right (2010)  about a lesbian couple’s relationship with their children’s sperm donor was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar the year after Bigelow won for Hurt Locker (2009).

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Focus Features – The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko: ‘I wanted to make a film that was not sanctimonious or sentimental’
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Deadline
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015The Slap (TV Series) (1 episode)
Hector (2015)
 2014Olive Kitteridge (TV Mini-Series) (4 episodes)
Security (2014)
A Different Road (2014)
Incoming Tide (2014)
Pharmacy (2014)
 2010Hung (TV Series) (1 episode)
Beaverland (2010)
 2010The Kids Are All Right
 2005The L Word (TV Series) (1 episode)
Lynch Pin (2005)
 2004Cavedweller
 2002Push, Nevada (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Letter of the Law (2002)
 2002Laurel Canyon
 2001Six Feet Under (TV Series) (1 episode)
Familia (2001)
 1999Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Same Coin (1999)
 1998High Art
 1997Dinner Party (Short)
 1994/IISouvenir (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Gina Prince-Bythewood

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, director Gina Prince-Bythewood, on set, 2008, TM and ©Copyright Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved./

 

After attending UCLA film school GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD began working in the industry as a writer on A Different World. She used her free time and experiences as a basketball player to write her first feature Love & Basketball (2000) where she worked with actress Sanaa Lathan to turn her into a realistic basketball player (her first instinct was to hire a player not an actor).

Bythewood is in talks with Fox for a new television series, Shots Fired, about the aftermath of police shootings in a small town in Tennessee, where she would reunite with Lathan

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Director Gina Prince-Bythewood: It’s Time To ‘Obliterate The Term Black Film’
‘Beyond the Lights’ Director Gina Prince-Bythewood on How to Change Hollywood for Black Filmmakers
Sanaa Lathan and Gina Prince-Bythewood Are Reuniting For a TV Series About Police Shootings
Interview
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2007 Reflections (TV Short)
 2005 Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) (1 episode)
Everybody Hates the Laundromat (2005)
 2005 Girlfriends (TV Series) (2 episodes)
Odds & Ends (2005)
Fits & Starts (2005)
 2003 The Bernie Mac Show (TV Series) (1 episode)
Magic Jordan (2003)
 2000 Disappearing Acts (TV Movie)
 1997 Bowl of Pork (Short) (as Gina Prince)
 1997 Damn Whitey (Short) (as Gina Prince)
 1997 Progress (Short) (as Gina Prince)
 1995 CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV Series) (1 episode)
What About Your Friends (1995) … (as Gina Prince)
 1991 Stitches (Short) (as Gina Prince)

Bite-sized blog post: Martha Coolidge

Martha Coolidge

MARTHA COOLIDGE was the first female president of the Directors Guild of America from 2002-2003. She got her MFA at NYU before moving to Los Angeles to begin her career as a director.

Her first feature film Not a Pretty Picture (1976) is a hybrid documentary fiction film exploring a date rape Coolidge suffered as a young woman. She went on to direct commercial fiction feature films  starting with Valley Girl (1983) which launched Nicholas Cage’s career as well as her own.

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Our Entire Belief System Must Change
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Music, War and Love (filming)
 2016Angie Tribeca (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Famous Ventriloquist Did It (2016)
 2014Madam Secretary (TV Series) (1 episode)
Passage (2014)
 2014The Night Shift (TV Series) (1 episode)
Blood Brothers (2014)
 2014Killer Women (TV Series) (1 episode)
Warrior (2014)
 2013The Glades (TV Series) (1 episode)
Glade-iators! (2013)
 2013Cult (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Good Fight (2013)
 2012The Unknown (TV Series) (4 episodes)
Life Sentence (2012)
Yesterday (2012)
Privacy Settings (2012)
Spare the Child (2012)
 2006-2011CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) (5 episodes)
Maid Man (2011)
Fracked (2010)
Redrum (2007)
Living Legend (2006)
 2011Drop Dead Diva (TV Series) (1 episode)
Dream Big (2011)
 2009Tribute (TV Movie)
 2009Psych (TV Series) (1 episode)
Truer Lies (2009)
 2009An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (Video)
 2007Weeds (TV Series) (1 episode)
Shit Highway (2007)
 2007Shark (TV Series) (1 episode)
Porn Free (2007)
 2006Material Girls
 2006Related (TV Series) (1 episode)
Not Without My Daughter (2006)
 2005Huff (TV Series) (1 episode)
 2004The Prince and Me
 2003Hidden Hills (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Concert (2003)
 2002Girls Club (TV Series) (1 episode)
Sex, Drugs and Being Madonna (2002)
 2002Sex and the City (TV Series) (2 episodes)
I Heart NY (2002)
 2001The Ponder Heart (TV Movie)
 2001Leap Years (TV Series) (1 episode)
Pilot (2001)
 2001The Flamingo Rising (TV Movie)
 2000If These Walls Could Talk 2 (TV Movie) (segment “1972”)
 1994Angie
 1992Crazy in Love (TV Movie)
 1991Bare Essentials (TV Movie)
 1989Trenchcoat in Paradise (TV Movie)
 1988CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
Roughhouse (1988)
 1987Plain Clothes
 1985-1987The Twilight Zone (TV Series) (3 episodes)
Joy Ride/Shelter Skelter/Private Channel (1987) … (segment “Shelter Skelter”)
Welcome to Winfield/Quarantine (1986) … (segment “Quarantine”)
Night of the Meek/But Can She Type?/The Star (1985) … (segment “Night of the Meek”)
 1986Sledge Hammer! (TV Series) (1 episode)
Under the Gun (1986)
 1984City Girl
 1978Winners (TV Series) (segment “, “Strawberries & Gold”)
 1978Bimbo (Documentary short)
 1974Old-Fashioned Woman (Documentary)
 1973More Than a School (Documentary)
 1972David: Off and On (Documentary short)

Bite-sized blog post: Ida Lupino

Ida-Lupino

One of the only women to work as a director in Hollywood in the 1940s IDA LUPINO began her career as an actress and succeeded directing and acting in numerous films of the era – specializing in noir.

Well before “indie film” became a household phrase she, along with her husband, ventured out on her own to direct and produce her own work outside of the studio system. As the only woman in the DGA meetings opened with, “Gentleman – and Mrs. Lupino.”

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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 1968The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series) (1 episode)
Madeira, My Dear? (1968)
 1967Dundee and the Culhane (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Thy Brother’s Keeper Brief (1967)
 1967Daniel Boone (TV Series) (1 episode)
The King’s Shilling (1967)
 1966The Virginian (TV Series) (1 episode)
Dead-Eye Dick (1966)
 1964-1966Gilligan’s Island (TV Series) (4 episodes)
The Producer (1966)
The Return of Wrongway Feldman (1965)
Wrongway Feldman (1964)
Good Night Sweet Skipper (1964)
 1966Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
Holloway’s Daughters (1966)
 1966The Trouble with Angels
 1966Honey West (TV Series) (1 episode)
How Brillig, O, Beamish Boy (1966)
 1963-1965Mr. Novak (TV Series) (3 episodes)
May Day, May Day… (1965)
Day in the Year (1964)
Love in the Wrong Season (1963)
 1964-1965The Rogues (TV Series) (2 episodes)
Bow to a Master (1965)
Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea (1964)
 1965Bewitched (TV Series) (1 episode)
A Is for Aardvark (1965)
 1964The Twilight Zone (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Masks (1964)
 1964Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Threatening Eye (1964)
 1964Dr. Kildare (TV Series) (1 episode)
To Walk in Grace (1964)
 1963-1964The Fugitive (TV Series) (3 episodes)
The Garden House (1964)
Glass Tightrope (1963)
Fatso (1963)
1963Breaking Point (TV Series) (1 episode)
Heart of Marble, Body of Stone (1963)
 1962-1963The Untouchables (TV Series) (3 episodes)
The Torpedo (1963)
The Man in the Cooler (1963)
A Fist of Five (1962)
 1962-1963Sam Benedict (TV Series) (3 episodes)
Sugar and Spice and Everything… (1963)
Everybody’s Playing Polo (1962)
Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells (1962)
 1961-1962Thriller (TV Series) (9 episodes)
The Lethal Ladies (1962)
The Bride Who Died Twice (1962)
La Strega (1962)
The Closed Cabinet (1961)
The Last of the Sommervilles (1961)
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 1961-1962General Electric Theater (TV Series) (5 episodes)
A Very Special Girl (1962)
The Little Hours (1962)
The Iron Silence (1961)
The Joke’s on Me (1961)
A Possibility of Oil (1961)
 1961The Rifleman (TV Series) (1 episode)
Assault (1961)
 1959-1961Have Gun – Will Travel (TV Series) (8 episodes)

The Gold Bar (1961)
The Trial (1960)
Lady with a Gun (1960)
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 1960-1961Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (2 episodes)
Sybilla (1960)
 1960Hong Kong (TV Series) (2 episodes)
The Turncoat (1960)
Clear for Action (1960)
 1960Dante (TV Series) (1 episode)
Opening Night (1960)
 1960Tate (TV Series) (2 episodes)
Stopover (1960)
 1959-1960Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (2 episodes)
The Man Who Believed in Law (1959)
 195977 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (2 episodes)
A Check Will Do Nicely (1959)
 1959The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) (1 episode)
A Difference of Opinion (1959)
 1958Mr. Adams and Eve (TV Series) (1 episode)
Teenage Idol (1958)
 1958Teenage Idol (TV Movie)
 1956The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) (1 episode)
The Trial of Mary Surratt (1956)
 1956Climax! (TV Series) (1 episode)
Fury at Dawn (1956)
 1956Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
 1951On Dangerous Ground (uncredited)
 1950Outrage
 1949Not Wanted (uncredited)

Bite-sized blog post: Deborah Kampmeier

 

Deborah Kampmeier

DEBORAH KAMPMEIER made her first film Virgin (2003) with a budget of only $65,000.00 thanks to digital technology and to actress Robin Wright who agreed to take part in the film despite the lack of a big budget because she loved the script and knew and respected Kampmeier. The film went on to critical acclaim and to receive the accolades of audiences.

Kampmeier’s second film Hounddog (2007) was plagued with controversy due to a rape scene involving the then 12 year old Dakota Fanning. The scene  in no way exploited Fanning due to the way in which it was shot but the controversy eclipsed the reality and ignored the horror of the story being told which is a reality for many young girls and focused on the fictional circumstances of the actress playing the scene. Kampmeier teaches acting in NYC and continues to direct.

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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016/IISplit
 2007Hounddog
 2003Virgin

Bite-sized blog post: Mira Nair

Mira Nair

MIRA NAIR began her career as a documentarian and then went on to make fiction films including one of Denzel Washington’s first features Mississippi Masala (1991).

Born and raised in India, Nair moved to the United States to study on a scholarship at Harvard before embarking on her film career.

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Lupita Nyong’o Will Star in Mira Nair’s ‘Queen of Katwe’ Film Adaptation (On Ugandan Chess Prodigy Phiona Mutesi)
MOVIE REVIEW: MIRA NAIR’S THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014Words with Gods (segment “God Room”)
 2009Amelia
 20088 (segment “How can it be?”)
 2008New York, I Love You (segment “Mira Nair”)
 2008/IMigration (Short)
 2002September 11 (segment “India”)
 2002Hysterical Blindness (TV Movie)
 2001The Laughing Club of India (TV Short documentary)
 1998My Own Country (TV Movie)
 1987Children of a Desired Sex (TV Movie documentary)
 1985India Cabaret (TV Movie documentary)
 1983So Far from India (Documentary)
 1979Jama Masjid Street Journal (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Phang

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San Francisco-based filmmaker born in Berkeley JENNIFER PHANG attended AFI for an MFA and went on to make sci-fi films Half-Life and Advantageous.

Phang is one of six women chosen for the 2015-2016 Women of Sundance Fellowship.

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ADVANTAGEOUS: A DYSTOPIAN FILM THAT’S PACKED WITH HOPE
Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jennifer Phang – ‘Advantageous’
The Mary Sue Interview
SF Society Film Society Blog
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Advantageous
 2012Futurestates (TV Series) (1 episode)
Advantageous (2012) … (2012)
 2008Half-Life
 2007Midnight Boycow (Short)
 2003The Matrices (Video short)
 2000Love, Ltd. (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Susan Seidelman

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After graduating from NYU Susan Seidelman did what many filmmakers did in the eighties and made an indie film on a shoe string budget which received critical acclaim, Smithereens (1982).

Following the success of Smithereens Seidelman went on to make the classic Desperately Seeking Susan giving her neighbor Madonna her first film role

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In Praise of Madonna’s DGAF Style inDesperately Seeking Susan
Once More Into the Groove: ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ Turns 25, New York Times
The Hollywood Interview
Interviewing Susan Seidelman: From Madonna to Menopause
Sets and the City: On the History of Smithereens
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2011Musical Chairs
2009-2010The Electric Company (TV Series) (4 episodes)
Jules Quest (2010)
 2009Madonna: Celebration – The Video Collection (Video) (video “Into the Groove”)
 2005Boynton Beach Club
 2005Stella (TV Series) (2 episodes)
Paper Route (2005)
Office Party (2005)
 2004The Ranch (TV Movie)
 2002Power and Beauty (TV Movie)
 2001Gaudi Afternoon
 1999Now and Again (TV Series) (1 episode)
 1999A Cooler Climate (TV Movie)
 1998Sex and the City (TV Series) (3 episodes)
The Baby Shower (1998)
Sex and the City (1998)
 1996Tales of Erotica (segment “Dutch Master, The”)
 1996Early Edition (TV Series) (1 episode)
Thief Swipes Mayor’s Dog (1996)
 1995The Barefoot Executive (TV Movie)
 1993The Dutch Master (Short)
 1989She-Devil
 1989Cookie