July 10, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: J.A. Steel

J.A. STEEL works as an actor and stunt woman as well as a director. She studied communications at USC while she was managing and promoting rock bands.

Her feature film The Third Society (2002) garnered interest in Hollywood but executives worried that the script was “too ethnic” so Steel produced the script herself. She formed her own company Warrior Entertainment.

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Bite-sized blog post: Tracy Droz Tragos

TRACY DROZ TRAGOS is a documentary and narrative filmmaker who formed her company Dinky Pictures to “tell personal, intimate stories with a focused perspective, giving voice to people, families and circumstances that otherwise would go unnoticed.”

Her first film Be Good Smile Pretty (2003) was inspired by a photograph she found of her father taken the day he died in Vietnam and was part of the Independent Lens series on PBS.

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Bite-sized blog post: Sophie Barthes

SOPHIE BARTHES’ most recent feature film brought to the screen Flaubert’s classic Madame Bovary (2014).

Her short film Happiness (2006) premiered at Sundance in 2007.

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Bite-sized blog post: Lise Swenson

LISE SWENSON founded the ATA (Artists’ Television Access) in San Francisco in 1984 before directing her first feature film Mission Movie (2004), a massive collaborative endeavor with several of her students. She worked professionally as a producer and a director while continuing to inspire students.

Her next feature directorial endeavor Saltwater (2014) also included many of her students and after years in the making premiered in San Francisco in 2013.

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Bite-sized blog post: Vanessa Hope

VANESSA HOPE directed several shorts about China before embarking on her feature length documentary film All Eyes and Ears (2015) addressing US-China relations.

Before becoming a filmmaker Hope studied law and worked in foreign policy. She is fluent in Chinese and and produced a web series for NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute called Law, Life & Asia.

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Bite-sized blog post: Deborah Attoinese

DEBORAH ATTOINESE directed a documentary On Directing (2014) featuring directors Agnes Varda, Wim Wenders, Roland Joffe and Bille August which is available on Fandor.

Attoinese worked as a fashion photographer before making her first feature film Zoe (2001) which was screened at AFI, Palm Springs International Film Festival and other prestigious festivals.

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Bite-sized blog post: Reed Morano

REED MORANO worked as a DP for female filmmaker Courtney Hunt for the Sundance Grand-Jury award-winning Frozen River (2008)before directing her first feature Meadowland (2015).

Meadowland (2015) was produced by actor Olivia Wilde who also starred in the film. Morano is slated to direct The Handmaid’s Tale for Hulu.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jenée LaMarque

JENEE LA MARQUE studied creative writing at Stanford before taking extension courses in Screenwriting at UCLA and eventually getting her MFA in Screenwriting from AFI.

Her directorial feature debut The Pretty One (2013) stars Zoe Kazan, granddaughter of the famous director Elia Kazan.

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Bite-sized blog post: Debbie Goodstein

DEBBIE GOODSTEIN’s first feature film Voices from the Attic (1988) has her going to Poland to learn about the family who hid her mother during World War II.

Her narrative film, Mighty Fine (2012), also features a fictionalized version of her family – but takes place here in the United States.

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Bite-sized blog post: Shola Lynch

SHOLA LYNCH began her documentary career working for Ken Burns and then went on to make the Peabody Award Winning Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004).

When she was very little (from age 2-6) she worked as an actor on Sesame Street.

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