Tag / Columbia

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Bite-sized blog post: Lisa Gottlieb

Lisa Gottlieb

LISA GOTTLIEB credits her opportunity to make the gender role reversal comedy classic Just One of the Guys (1985) to the lawsuit filed against Columbia Pictures in the early eighties by the Original Six and the DGA.

Gottlieb has gone on to direct for television and teach filmmaking at various Universities including USC.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

YOUTUBE

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Chatting With The Just One Of The Guys Director
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Black Friday (post-production)
 1998Boy Meets World (TV Series) (1 episode)
– The Eskimo (1998)
 1995Across the Moon
 1994Dream On (TV Series) (1 episode)
– ‘Tis Pity She’s a Neighbor (1994)
 1988Freddy’s Nightmares (TV Series) (1 episode)
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Bite-sized blog post: Courtney Hunt

 

Courtney Hunt

COURNEY HUNT went to law school before attending Columbia film school and used her legal background to work and pay for film school.

Her first feature film Frozen River (2008) won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

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Little Miss Darkness – Courtney Hunt’s first film won Sundance, but it’s hardly cute.
Director Courtney Hunt Begins Shooting Follow-Up to Frozen River
Interview
Under the Radar Interview
Time Out
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2011-2013Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Presumed Guilty (2013)
– True Believers (2011)

 2009-2010In Treatment (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Adele: Week Five (2010)
– Jesse: Week Three (2010)
– Mia: Week Seven (2009)
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Bite-sized blog post: Rebecca Thomas

2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards at Santa Monica Beach - Arrivals Featuring: Rebecca Thomas Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 23 Feb 2013 Credit: FayesVision/WENN.com

REBECCA THOMAS’ first short Ivan Sings (2009) premiered at Sundance before she went to Columbia University for her MFA in filmmaking.

Thomas directed her first feature Electrick Children (2012) while still a student at Columbia. The television pilot she directed Little Darlings has recently been picked up and she is slated to direct the live-action film of The Little Mermaid and the movie of John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska.

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Rebecca Thomas in Talks to Direct ‘Little Mermaid’ Starring Chloe Moretz
Variety
‘Looking for Alaska’ Taps Rebecca Thomas to Direct
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2009Ivan Sings (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Kimberly Pierce

Kimberly Peirce

KIMBERLY PEIRCE began working on her first feature Boys Don’t Cry (1999) while a graduate student at Columbia film school. She started by making a self-funded short catching the attention of  producer Christine Vachon who would help her turn it into a feature.

The remake of the Stephen King classic Carrie (2013) directed by Peirce was only one of two female helmed films to be in the top 100 grossing films of that year.

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HULU

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TRANS TRANSLATED: BOYS DON’T CRYDIRECTOR KIMBERLY PEIRCE ON 20 YEARS OF QUEER CULTURE
Kimberly Peirce’s Remake of Carrie Struggled With Vagina-Phobic Execs Who Couldn’t Say “Vagina”
‘Carrie’ Is Back. So Is Kimberly Peirce.
Deadline
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Manhattan (TV Series) (1 episode)
– 33 (2015)
2015Halt and Catch Fire (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Play with Friends (2015)
 2015TURN: Washington’s Spies (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Valley Forge (2015)
 2013Carrie
 2008Stop-Loss
 2006The L Word (TV Series) (1 episode)
– Lifeline (2006)
 1999Boys Don’t Cry
 1995Boys Don’t Cry (Short)
 1994The Last Good Breath (Short)

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Bite-sized blog post: Bette Gordon

At home with independent film pioneer Bette Gordon Friday, April 2, 2010 on Reade Street in New York. (N.Y.Post/Chad Rachman)

When BETTE GORDON attended film school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA film program she was one of two woman and one of her professors joked when they were working with a Bolex camera “do you girls even know how to use that thing?” She became an expert and has gone on to teach film classes at Columbia as well as continuing to direct award winning features including Luminous Motion (2000) based on the novel by Scott Bradfield and  Handsome Harry (2009).

Her most recent feature starring Josh Charles and Julia Stiles, Border Crossers is in post-production.

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Border Crossers Film page
Artists in Conversation
Interview
Columbia Film School Website
New York Times
Film Directors Site
Porn and Being Poor, Then & Now: Bette Gordon Interview, Tribeca 2009

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2003Life on the Line (TV Movie)
 1998Luminous Motion
 1994Love Street (TV Series) (1 episode)
– See Me (1994)
 1989-1991Monsters (TV Series) (4 episodes)
– Desirable Alien (1991)
– Habitat (1990)
– Jar (1989)
– The Mother Instinct (1989)
 1986Seven Women, Seven Sins (segment “Greed – Pay to Play”)
 1983Variety
 1974I-94 (Short)
 1974Michigan Avenue (Short)