Bite-sized blog post: Sanaa Hamri

<> on March 4, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

SANAA HAMRI began her career directing music videos after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She originally hails from Morocco where her father was a painter and author and her American mother was a teacher.

She has directed several popular television series shows and is an Executive Producer on the hit series Empire.

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It’s who you know! Hollywood filmmaker Sanaa Hamri on her mentors
‘Empire’ Executive Producer Sanaa Hamri: “We’re No Longer Scared Telling The Real Truth”
Variety
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Empire (TV Series) (6 episodes)

Past Is Prologue (2016)
More Than Kin (2016)
Et Tu, Brute? (2015)
My Bad Parts (2015)
Our Dancing Days (2015)
 2015/IStudio City (TV Movie)

 2011-2015Shameless (TV Series) (4 episodes)

I’m the Liver (2015)
Daddyz Girl (2011)

 2014Rectify (TV Series) (1 episode)

Weird as You (2014)

 2014Hemlock Grove (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2013-2014Elementary (TV Series) (4 episodes)

No Lack of Void (2014)
The Marchioness (2013)
Ancient History (2013)
Details (2013)

 2014Glee (TV Series) (1 episode)

New New York (2014)

 2013Full Circle (TV Series) (1 episode)

Robbie & Celeste (2013)

 2013Hit the Floor (TV Series) (1 episode)

Pilot (2013)
 2013Lovestruck: The Musical (TV Movie)

 2013Nashville (TV Series) (2 episodes)

 201290210 (TV Series) (2 episodes)

Hate 2 Love (2012)

 2010Life Unexpected (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2009Acceptance (TV Movie)

 2007Men in Trees (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2007Desperate Housewives (TV Series) (1 episode)

Bite-sized blog post: Ami Canaan Mann

Ami Canaan Mann

AMI CANAAN MANN is the daughter of Michael Mann (the director who made a point of seeking out a woman director to work on his television series Miami Vice and hired Jan Eliasberg to help put the action on the screen). She grew up in Indiana with her mom but has succeeded int he world of Hollywood directing television and making feature films.

Mann began as a writer, writing for TV shows such as NYPD Blue.  Her film Jackie & Ryan screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2014.

 

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Ami Canaan Mann: A graduate of the family business strikes out
Venice Spotlight: Ami Canaan Mann On ‘Jackie & Ryan’
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Chicago Med (TV Series) (1 episode)

Disorder (2016) … (as Ami Mann)

 2015The Blacklist (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2012Dakota (TV Series) (3 episodes)

Almost Up $6,640 (2012)
Down $1,170 (2012)
Down $770 (2012)

 2010Friday Night Lights (TV Series) (1 episode)

I Can’t (2010)

 2003Robbery Homicide Division (TV Series) (1 episode)

Hellbound Train (2003)
 2001Morning

Bite-sized blog post: Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt

Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt

MARION LPISCHUTZ and ROSE ROSENBLATT are documentarians who teamed  up to create Incite Pictures and make movies.

They are known for documentaries about social issues and with strong central characters such as The Education of Shelby Knox (2005) about a young woman who fights for sex education and gay rights in Lubbock, Texas.

 

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WNYC
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Women Make Movies
U.S. director Dennie Gordon, on filming ‘My Lucky Star’ in China
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

MARION LIPSCHUTZ

Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

Young Lakota (2013)
 2012Young Lakota (Documentary)
 2005The Education of Shelby Knox (Documentary)
 2000Live Free or Die (Documentary)
 1998Fatherhood USA (TV Mini-Series documentary)
 1997The Abortion Pill (TV Movie documentary)
ROSE ROSENBLATT

Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

Young Lakota (2013)
 2012Young Lakota (Documentary)
 2005The Education of Shelby Knox (Documentary)
 2000Live Free or Die (Documentary)
 1998Fatherhood USA (TV Mini-Series documentary)
 1997The Abortion Pill (TV Movie documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Mariette Monpierre

Mariette Monpierre

MARIETTE MONPIERRE began her career producing commercials in NYC. She hails from the Carribean where she located and filmed her feature Elza (2011).

Her directorial debut was part of Paris la métisse, a group of shorts.

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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2011Elza

Bite-sized blog post: Dennie Gordon

Dennie Gordon

DENNIE GORDON graduated from Yale’s School of Drama in Directing to working in film and television and has directed over forty episodes of television as well as feature film What a Girl Wants (2003) and New York Minute (2004).

She was the first American woman to direct in China with her feature My Lucky Star (2013) which she shot in Hong Kong.

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U.S. director Dennie Gordon, on filming ‘My Lucky Star’ in China
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Feed the Beast (TV Series) (1 episode)

Episode #1.7 (2016)

 2016Bloodline (TV Series) (1 episode)

Part 18 (2016)

 2014-2016Kingdom (TV Series) (4 episodes)

Cut Man (2016)
Help Wanted (2016)
The Gentle Slope (2014)

 2014-2015Madam Secretary (TV Series) (4 episodes)

Lights Out (2015)
The Rusalka (2015)
Need to Know (2014)

 2015Under the Dome (TV Series) (1 episode)

Legacy (2015)

 2015Power (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2015Grace and Frankie (TV Series) (1 episode)

The Sex (2015)

 201512 Monkeys (TV Series) (1 episode)

Paradox (2015)

 2013-2014Hell on Wheels (TV Series) (3 episodes)

Reckoning (2014)
Chicken Hill (2014)
Range War (2013)

 2014Rectify (TV Series) (1 episode)

Sleeping Giants (2014)

 2009-2013Burn Notice (TV Series) (8 episodes)

Brothers in Arms (2013)
Under the Gun (2012)
Eyes Open (2010)
Hard Time (2010)
Fast Friends (2010)

 2011Suits (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2009-2011White Collar (TV Series) (3 episodes)

Vital Signs (2010)
Threads (2009)

 2011Outsourced (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2009-2011Royal Pains (TV Series) (2 episodes)

 2011The Cape (TV Series) (1 episode)

Scales (2011)

 2010Hellcats (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2010The Glades (TV Series) (1 episode)

Breaking 80 (2010)

 2010The Good Guys (TV Series) (1 episode)

Silvio’s Way (2010)

 2010Notes from the Underbelly (TV Series) (1 episode)

The Weekend (2010)

 2010True Jackson, VP (TV Series) (1 episode)

True Date (2010)

 2010The Deep End (TV Series) (1 episode)

An Innocent Man (2010)

 2009The Ex List (TV Series) (2 episodes)

The Other Foot (2009)
 2009PRIVATE: The Casting Call (TV Series)
 2009Private (TV Series) (series director)

 2008Samantha Who? (TV Series) (1 episode)

The Birthday (2008)

 200712 Miles of Bad Road (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2007Hell on Earth (TV Movie)

 2007Aliens in America (TV Series) (1 episode)

Homecoming (2007)

 2006-2007The Loop (TV Series) (4 episodes)

Fatty (2007)
Yeah, Presents (2007)
The Phantom (2007)

 2007The Wedding Bells (TV Series) (1 episode)

 200730 Rock (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2006Haversham Hall (TV Movie)
 2006Our Thirties (TV Short)

 2006What About Brian (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2006The Office (TV Series) (2 episodes)

Boys and Girls (2006)
The Secret (2006)
 2006Mermaid (TV Movie)

 2005Kitchen Confidential (TV Series) (1 episode)

Rabbit Test (2005)

 2005Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2005Beautiful People (TV Series) (pilot)
 2003Beat Cops (TV Movie)

 2001-2002Grounded for Life (TV Series) (6 episodes)

Dust in the Wind (2002)
Safety Dance (2002)
We Are Family (2002)

 1997-2002The Practice (TV Series) (6 episodes)

Judge Knot (2002)
Legacy (1999)
The Trial (1998)
 2002Glory Days (TV Series) (pilot)
 2001Joe Dirt

 2001DAG (TV Series) (2 episodes)

Guns and Roses (2001)
Prom (2001)

 1999-2000Jack & Jill (TV Series) (3 episodes)

 1997-2000Ally McBeal (TV Series) (4 episodes)

Out in the Cold (2000)
Love Unlimited (1999)
Theme of Life (1998)
The Kiss (1997)
 1999Outreach (TV Series) (pilot)

 1998-1999Sports Night (TV Series) (4 episodes)

The Reunion (1999)

 1999Snoops (TV Series) (1 episode)

Bedfellas (1999)

 1999Tracey Takes On… (TV Series) (1 episode)

End of the World (1999)
 1998Real Life (TV Series)

 1998Dawson’s Creek (TV Series) (1 episode)

Crossroads (1998)

 1997Nash Bridges (TV Series) (1 episode)

Sniper (1997)
 1997Michael Hayes (TV Series)

 1996-1997Party of Five (TV Series) (3 episodes)

Hitting Bottom (1997)
Christmas (1996)
Deal with It (1996)

 1996Relativity (TV Series) (1 episode)

No Job Too Small (1996)
 1996Dangerous Minds (TV Series)

 1996Chicago Hope (TV Series) (1 episode)

Life Lines (1996)

 1995Picket Fences (TV Series) (1 episode)

 1994A Hard Rain (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Jerusha Hess

Jerusha Hess

JERUSHA HESS wrote the cult film Napoleon Dynamite (2004) directed by her husband Jared Hess who she met while studying film at Brigham Young University.

She went on to direct the film Austenland (2013) based on the novel by Shannon Hale about the world of Jane Austen fans.

Bite-sized blog post: Anna Rose Holmer

Anna Rose Holmer

ANNA ROSE HOLMER pitched her movie The Fits (2015) in Venice before it premiered at Sundance in 2015.

She studied film at NYU as an undergraduate and went on to work as a Cinematographer before directing her first film.

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Moviemaker Magazine review of The Fits

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015The Fits
 2010Twelve Ways to Sunday (Documentary) (as Anna Farrell)

Bite-sized blog post: Cynthia Mort

Cynthia Mort

CYNTHIA MORT wrote and produced for television sitcoms including Roseanne and Will and Grace before making her directorial debut with Nina (2016), a screenplay she wrote about Nina Simone.

Unfortunately that production was plagued with problems, including a lawsuit filed by Mort against the producers who she felt hijacked the production which took 11 years to get made.

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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2016 Nina

Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Conn

LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 13: Filmmaker Nicole Conn and mother of Nicholas Baba-Conn attends the First Annual Courageous Beginnings Awards honoring heroes of neonatology, the care of premature infants sponsored by Good Beginnings, the support group for the neonatal intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at the Pacific Design Center on January 13, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)

NICOLE CONN’s film A Perfect Ending (2012) is currently the best selling lesbian themed movie of all time.

Conn has done both narrative fiction and documentary films which includes Little Man (2005), a documentary about her experiences having a son born 100 days premature.

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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014Jen Foster: She (Video short)
 2005Little Man (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Deborah Kaplan

Deborah Kaplan

DEBORAH KAPLAN writes regularly with her creative partner Harry Elfton who she met while a student at NYU. Her directorial debut Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and was made with Elfont.

They have gone on to work on other projects together including Josie and the Pussycats (2001) and worked on a script of the famous book “Men are from Mars. Women are From Venus.” which has yet to be made.