August 21, 2016August 21, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Michele Josue

MICHELE JOSUE headed to Los Angeles after graduating from Emerson College and started working as an editor and in the Art department of several features.

Her debut feature film Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine (2014) is a documentary about the tragic death of her friend Matthew Shepard.

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Bite-sized blog post: Leigh Janiak

LEIGH JANIAK co-wrote her first feature Honeymoon (2014) with her friend Phil Graziadei and it premiered at SXSW. Producer Patrick Baker had hired Janiak to work for the production company he was helming and two years later read the script and signed on to produce.

Janiak has gone on to direct for television and is attached to direct a remake of The Craft.

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Bite-sized blog post: Anne Renton

ANNE RENTON hails from Australia but directs in Los Angeles.

Her first feature film The Perfect Family (2011) stars Kathleen Turner and Emily Deschanel and tackles religion’s taboos concerning homosexuality. She has gone on to direct for television including the TV series Bones.

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Bite-sized blog post: Laura Dern

LAURA DERN is of course well known as an actor but she has also had a turn at directing a few short segments for television.

Laura Dern was a director on the Lifetime series Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013), five stories surrounding mental illness all directed by women. The series was a follow-up to the series Five of stories about women and breast cancer also all directed by women.

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Bite-sized blog post: Alison Eastwood

ALISON EASTWOOD has followed in her father’s footsteps (Clint Eastwood) and directed films.

Eastwood began studying acting and then moved into directing with her first feature film Rails and Ties (2007).

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Bite-sized blog post: Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg

RICKI STERN and ANNIE SUNDBERG met while students at Dartmouth and have since gone on to direct several documentaries together, a reality series following Anna Wintour’s and Diane Von Furstenberg’s Fashion Fund competition and have formed a company, Break Thru Films.

Their documentary The Trials of Daryl Hunt (2006) was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Their latest endeavor Marathon: The Patriots’ Day Bombing is part of the HBO slate of films announced for this year.

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Bite-sized blog post: Lacey Schwartz

LACEY SCHWARTZ studied law at Harvard. She directed the documentary Little White Lie (2014) which was screened as a part of the PBS series Independent Lens.

She has also worked as a producer.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jessica Bendinger

JESSICA BENDINGER wrote and produced the film Bring it On (2000).

Bendinger worked as a writer and creative consultant before directing the feature film Stick It (2006) for Disney.

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Bite-sized blog post: Beeban Kidron

BEEBAN KIDRON began as a filmmaker in London where she directed the mini-series of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit (1990) for the BBC. She also started Film Club, an after-school program for kids in England and Whales.

She moved to Hollywood to direct Used People (1992) with Shirley MacLaine and directs both narrative fiction and documentary.

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Bite-sized blog post: Lauren Greenfield

LAUREN GREENFIELD is a photographer and artist as well as a filmmaker. She has been nominated for a DGA award for Best Director in the documentary realm and for commercials.

Greenfield received the Sundance Directing Award for her film The Queen of Versailles in 2012.

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