Month / May 2016

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Bite-sized blog post: Bronwen Hughes

Bronwen Hughes

BRONWEN HUGHES is best known for directing for television including for the popular Breaking Bad series.

She also directed the feature film Forces of Nature (1999) starring Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock.

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Where to watch her films:

HULU

AMAZON

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Professional Artists Lab
NPR
Slated
Find her on LinkedIn
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Damien (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Number of a Man (2016)

 2015Teen Wolf (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Condition Terminal (2015)

 2015Allegiance (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Blowback (2015)

 2013-2015Motive (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Fallen (2015)
– Against All Odds (2013)
– Creeping Tom (2013)

 2014Stalker (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Manhunt (2014)

 2014The Mysteries of Laura (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Mystery of the Sex Scandal (2014)

 2014Black Box (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Free Will (2014)
– Kodachrome (2014)
 2013Over/Under (TV Movie)

 2011Fairly Legal (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Pilot (2011)
 2010Tangled (TV Movie)
 2010Cutthroat (TV Movie)

 2009White Collar (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Pilot (2009)

 2009Royal Pains (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Crazy Love (2009)

 2008Burn Notice (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Bad Blood (2008)

 2008Breaking Bad (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Crazy Handful of Nothin’ (2008)

 2006-2007The L Word (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Lacy Lilting Lyrics (2007)
– Legend in the Making (2007)
– Lobsters (2006)
 2003Stander
 2001Earth Angels (TV Movie)
 1994Amy Grant: Building the House of Love (Video documentary) (video “Lucky One”)

 The Kids in the Hall (TV Series) (3 episodes, 1994) (film segment director – 3 episodes, 1994)

– Episode #5.20 (1994) … (film segment director)
– Episode #5.19 (1994) … (film segment director)
– Episode #5.17 (1994)
– Episode #5.16 (1994)
– Episode #5.15 (1994) … (film segment director)
– Episode #5.18 (1994) … (film segment)
 1990Love Hurts (TV Series)
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Bite-sized blog post: Ali Scher

Ali Scher

ALI SCHER got her MFA from USC after directing theatre as an Undergrad. She won a Student Emmy and won the DGA Jury Award for Best Female Filmmaker.

She went on to create her own webseries Candy Land and her first feature Jessica Darling’s It List produced by Disney is set to come out this year.

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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

CANDY LAND WEBSERIES

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Find her on LinkedIn
Find her on Instagram
Filmmakers Spotlight: Ali Scher of “The Maiden and The Princess”
The Maiden and the Princess website
Her Website

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Just Jacques (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Student Election Debate (2015)
– The Duel (2015)
– Basketball (2015)

 2015OMG! (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Just Jacques (2015)

 2012CandyLand: A Web Series (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– The Real Lucy (2012)
– Keep Your Friends Close (2012)
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Bite-sized blog post: Katherine Nolfi

Katherine Nolfi

KATHERINE NOLFI studied film as an Undergraduate at NYU.

She has written several features and co-directed her first feature film Upstate (2010) with director Andrew Luis.

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Where to watch her films:

YOUTUBE

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Facebook
Find her on Instagram
Talking Upstate, collaboration, and filmmaking with Andrew Luis and Katherine Nolfi from The LAFF
Screenwriters Colony Profile
Indiewire Interview

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2011Mouth Babies (Short)
 2010Upstate (co-director)
 2009Unlimited (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Kate Chaplin

Kate Chaplin

KATE CHAPLIN has directed two features and founded her own production company Karmic Courage.

Ingenue (2013), her first feature can be watched on YouTube. Chaplin has a podcast where she talks movies!

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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

YOUTUBE

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Her Website
Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
Find her on LinkedIn
Her podcast

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Ingénue
 2012Home Security (Short)
 2012Love Dance (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Fogel

Susanna Fogel

SUSANNA FOGEL’s first feature Life Parnters (2014) was based on a play she co-wrote with her screenwriting partner and friend Joni Lefkowitz.

The film was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and the two of them went on to create Chasing Life, a tv series about a woman battling cancer for ABC.

 

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

Magnolia Pictures site links for Life Partners

NETFLIX

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Find her on Facebook
Tribeca Women Directors: Meet Susanna Fogel (Life Partners)
Interview
WGA Article about Chasing Life
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Chasing Life (TV Series) (1 episode)

– As Long as We Both Shall Live (2015)
 2008Joni & Susanna (TV Series)

 

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Bite-sized blog post: Victoria Mahoney

Victoria Mahoney

VICTORIA MAHONEY began her career as an actress where she first met Ava Duvernay, appearing in a short film directed by Duvernay. Mahoney went on to direct her first feature Yelling to the Sky (2011) which won critical acclaim a the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW.

Mahoney is slated to direct an episode of Duvernay’s television series Queen Sugar.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Filmmaker Magazine
Her Website
Indiewire Interview
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Queen Sugar (TV Series) (1 episode) (pre-production)

– Episode #1.5 (2016)
 2014Bleach (TV Movie)

 2013The Conversation (TV Series) (1 episode)

– UK Special (2013) … (2013)
 2013Exhale (TV Series) (2013)
 2013Searching (Short)
 2012Wracked (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Valerie Breiman

Valerie Breiman

VALERIE BREIMAN’s film Love & Sex (2000) was based on her relationship with Adam Rifkin, who also wrote a script on the subject of their relationship that didn’t make it to the screen.

Breiman began her career as an actress and started directing with her first feature Going Overboard (1989), an Adam Sandler film.

 

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

iTUNES

Read more about her:

ONLINE

An ex-rated tale of love and hate:Valerie Breiman and Adam Rifkin both wrote screenplays of their one-time romance – but it was her gentle touch that made it on to celluloid
Investigating the Opposite Sex: Her 13 Affairs vs. His Three
The Guardian Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2012Overnight
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Bite-sized blog post: Aleta Chappelle

Aleta Chappelle

ALETA CHAPPELLE works primarily as a casting director but has always been interested in storytelling on a larger scale. She studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and then went on to cast films for Francis Ford Coppola who executive produced her directorial feature debut Goosed (1999).

Her most recent film Romeo and Juliet in Harlem (2015) was funded via a crowdfunding campaign and brings her back to her classical theatre roots.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Aleta Chappelle Professional Biography
Tribeca
Rolling Stone
University of Nottingham

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2004Return of Fire (Video)
 2002Fire (Video)
 1999Goosed
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Bite-sized blog post: Amy Berg

Amy Berg

AMY BERG’s recent film Janis: Little Girl (2015), about the life of singer Janis Joplin screened at the Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim.

She founded Disarming Films, a documentary production company.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Find her company on Facebook
Disarming Films Website
Huffington Post
Deadline
Indiewire Interview
Variety
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Janis: Little Girl Blue (Documentary) (as Amy J. Berg)
 2015Prophet’s Prey (Documentary)
 2014/IAn Open Secret (Documentary)
 2012West of Memphis (Documentary)
 2007Polarized (Short)
 2006Deliver Us from Evil (Documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Styron

Susanna Styron

After receiving an MFA in filmmaking from AFI, SUSANNA STYRON directed her first feature film Shadrach (1998) based on a short story written by her father, the famous novelist William Styron

She went on to direct for television and while wading through the difficulties of development that is so often associated with narrative fiction films she directed a documentary with an incredible cast of real life heroes from the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

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Where to watch her films:

9/12:FROM CHAOS TO COMMUNITY (DVD’s for PURCHASE)

AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

HULU

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Interview
9/12: From Chaos to Community website
NYWIFT event
Website for her film Out of my Head
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

All Downhill From Here (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Arm’s Control” (2016)
 20069/12: From Chaos to Community (Documentary)

 2001100 Centre Street (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Bottlecaps (2001)
 1998Shadrach