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Bite-sized blog post: Leslye Headland

Leslye Headland

Leslye Headland directed her first feature Bachelorette (2012) based on the play she wrote with the same name.

She has just been slated to direct her first pilot for ABC.

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AMAZON

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Leslye Headland’s ‘Sleeping With Other People’ surprised even her
Huffington Post
Why Leslye Headland is Disappointed With the State of Indie Filmmaking
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Bite-sized blog post: Anna Mastro

Anna Mastro

ANNA MASTRO’s short film Bench Seat (2011) is a musical with a screenplay written by Neil LaBute. Mastro moved from Seattle to Los Angeles to start her career in directing.

She has gone on to direct feature films and television including for Finding Carter and Jane the Virgin.

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‘Bench Seat’ Director Anna Mastro: Crowd-Funded Short Music to Her Ears

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Awkward. (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Misadventures in Babysitting (2016)

 2016Jane the Virgin (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Chapter Forty (2016)
 2015Guidance (TV Series)

 2015Finding Carter (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Anywhere But Here (2015)

 2014-2015Royal Crush (TV Series) (12 episodes)

– The Confession (2015)
– Second Chances (2015)
– Broken Hearts (2015)
– Frenemies (2015)
– Trouble in Paradise (2015)
– Together Again (2015)
– Together at Last (2014)
– Love Hurts (2014)
– When in Rome (2014)
– First Date (2014)
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 2015Walter
 2013Jarvis Cocker: Black Magic (Video short)

 2012Gossip Girl (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Save the Last Chance (2012)
 2012/IIThe Golden Rule (Short)
 2011Bench Seat (Short)
 2008Matter (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Chloe Zhao

Chloe Zhao

CHLOE ZHAO studied political science at Mount Holyoke College before attending NYU for an MFA in film and then writing and directing her first feature Songs my Brothers Taught Me (2015).

The film premiered at Sundance in 2015.

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Meet the 2015 Sundance Filmmakers #81: Chloé Zhao Tackles Indian Reservation Relationships in ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me’
Navigating Fact and Fiction: Chloé Zhao on Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Filmmaker Magazine
Indiewire
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2010Daughters (Short)
 2009The Atlas Mountains (Short)
 2008Post (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Hilary Brougher

Hilary Brougher

HILARY BROUGHER teaches at Columbia University film school in NYC. Her first featue film The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997) was produced by Good Machine.

Her second feature Stephanie Daley (2006) premiered at Sundance.

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Variety – 10 Directors to Watch
A Director, and Mother, Confronts Infanticide
Columbia University
Rotterdam Website
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014/VInnocence
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Bite-sized blog post: Grace Lee

Grace Lee

GRACE LEE directs both documentaries and narrative fiction films. She started out as a journalist before deciding to share stories via film.

Lee then attended UCLA to study film. She is  a 2016 Sundance Institute Women’s Initiative fellow.

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PBS

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American Revolutionary Website
PBS
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Off the Menu: Asian America (Documentary)
 2014Makers: Women in Politics (Documentary)
 2014P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
 2005The Grace Lee Project (Documentary)
 2004Best of the Wurst (Documentary short)
 2002Barrier Device (Short)
 2000/IIThe Ride Home (Short)
 2000Girl Meets Boy (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Chiemi Karasawa

New York, NY- February 19: Director Chiemi Karasawa attends Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me New York Premiere at the Paley Center on February 19, 2014 in New York City. Credit RTNStevens/MediaPunch

CHIEMI KARASAWA has produced almost twenty documentaries and is credited with directing two including Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013).

She has also worked as a script supervisor on numerous narrative fiction films. She founded Isotope Films.

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ISOTOPE WEBSITE

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Isotope Films Website
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Film Indpendent Interview
Reddit Conversation
Vanity Fair

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Meet the Midtown Men (TV Movie documentary)
 2013Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (Documentary) (attached)
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Bite-sized blog post: Diablo Cody

Diablo Cody

Diablo Cody is best known for her work as a screenwriter, having won an Academy Award for Juno (2007) and has written for TV and film before directing her first (and based on her experiences apparently) directorial endeavor Paradise (2013).

She continues to write for film and television!

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YOU TUBE

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Diablo Cody: I’m Done With Directing
The misunderstood feminism of Diablo Cody
Deadline
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2013 Paradise

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Bite-sized blog post: Kathleen Davison

Kathleen Davison

In the midst of post-production for her first film KATHLEEN DAVISON was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She postponed surgery to complete the film.

A graduate of Penn State’s Theatre department Davison moved to Los Angeles and started working on sets in order to learn about making movies. Her feature film Primrose Lane (2015) has garnered her critical acclaim in the festival circuit and she is healthy post-surgery!

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Alumna Kathleen Davison postpones brain tumor surgery to finish her film
Primrose Lane Kickstarter page

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015We Care Dental (TV Movie)
 2015Effloresce (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Amy Williams

Amy Williams

AMY WILLIAMS studied film at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and went on to make the award winning documentary The Morrison Project (2003).

She established the production company Little Voice Films in 2009.

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The Morrison Project on Facebook
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Little Voice Films Website
Review of The Morrison Project

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Respire (Short) (post-production)
 2008My Blood (Short)
 2003The Morrison Project (Documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: Amanda Marsalis

Amanda Marsalis

AMANDA MARSALIS’ directorial feature debut Echo Park (2014) was picked up for distribution by Ava Duvernay’s company ARRAY and can be viewed on Netflix.

Marsalis began her career as a photographer studying at California College of Arts and Crafts.

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ARRAY NOW
Ava Duvernay’s Array Acquires Indie Drama ‘Echo Park’

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014 Echo Park