May 11, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Marcy Boyle & Rachel Holzman

MARCY BOYLE and RACHEL HOLZMAN met while students at Barnard College in New York. They collaborated on scripts and both had written bigger budget fair that wasn’t getting produced so they decided to collaborate on a project they could do themselves. Nobody Can Cool (2015), a neo-noir-horror thriller was born!

They are now collaborating on a documentary about Hollywood producer Debra Hill who after successfully producing the Halloween movies as well as critically acclaimed movies such as The Fisher King (1991) and many others died at age 55 of cancer.

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Bite-sized blog post: Shira Piven

SHIRA PIVEN taught acting in prison through the Actors Gang prison project before directing films. Her most recent feature Welcome to Me (2014) stars Kristen Wiig and is available on Netflix.

She has been slated to direct for Transparent.

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Bite-sized blog post: Kate Kaminski

In addition to directing her own films (narrative and documentary), KATE KAMINSKI is the founder and Artistic Director of the Bluestocking Film Series, a festival specializing in films with complex female protagonists.

You can watch one of her features, The Crew (2012) on her company vimeo page (Gitgo Productions).

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Bite-sized blog post: Laura Lau

LAURA LAU worked with Chris Kentis as a writer and producer on the films Open Water (2003) and Grind (1997) before her co-directing debut with Kentis on Silent House (2011).

Silent House used the one-take convention before Birdman but after Russian Ark!

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AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Rachel Talalay

RACHEL TALALAY studied mathematics at Yale while running the Yale film society. Her directorial debut was doe one of the famous Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in 1991 before directing the cult classic Tank Girl (1995).

She has directed numerous television shows including the resurgence of the classic Dr. Who series and is the first woman to direct for the BBC Sherlock series.

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Bite-sized blog post: Angelina Jolie

ANGELINA JOLIE is of course best known as an actress but after establishing herself in that arena she has gone on to direct. Her first film was a documentary A Place in Time where around the world several filmmakers participated in filming at the same moment.

Her next film, the narrative feature In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) was a passion project that led her to directing subsequent projects – most recently a film in Cambodia where she previously worked as an actor and from where she adopted one of her children.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Fox

JENNIFER FOX is a documentary filmmaker who recently directed a narrative fiction film starring Laura Dern and Ellen Burstyn, The Tale.

She is president of Zohe Film Productions, an independent New York Film company.

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Bite-sized blog post: Kathi Carey

KATHI CAREY segued from working as an actor to filmmaking and directed numerous episodes of a talk-show series called Casting Q’s created by Bonnie Gillespie.

She has shadowed several television directors, continues to direct shorts and has features in development.

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Bite-sized blog post: Valerie Faris

Teaming up with her husband VALERIE FARIS created the show The Cutting Edge for MTV and then went on to form production company Bob Industries where they have directed numerous commercials.

They continued to work together directing music videos and documentaries before teaming up for their first feature film Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

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Bite-sized blog post: Meredith Edwards

MEREDITH EDWARDS is a storyteller who works in theatre and film.

She directed the feature film Imagine I’m Beautiful (2014) in the same year she directed her first short Coney Island.

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