June 24, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Dena Hysell

DENA HYSELL has directed documentary and narrative fiction films. She started out as a producer after studying at Stanford and has served on the board of the non-profit Mobile Film Classroom which teaches kids storytelling and filmmaking skills.

Her directorial debut was a documentary about business people who survived and thrived despite the economic crisis, The Paladins (2012).

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Bite-sized blog post: 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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Bite-sized blog post: 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.

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Bite-sized blog post: 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.

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Bite-sized blog post: Natalia Leite

NATALIA LEITE’s feature film Bare (2015) premiered at Tribeca.

She has directed documentaries for Vice Media as well as music videos and shorts since moving to NYC from Brazil. She co-created Be Here Nowish with Alexandra Roxo.

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Bite-sized blog post: 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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Bite-sized blog post: 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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Bite-sized blog post: 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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Bite-sized blog post: Bronwen Hughes

BRONWEN HUGHES is best known for directing for television including for the popular Breaking Bad series.

She also directed the feature film Forces of Nature (1999) starring Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock.

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Bite-sized blog post: Ali Scher

ALI SCHER got her MFA from USC after directing theatre as an Undergrad. She won a Student Emmy and won the DGA Jury Award for Best Female Filmmaker.

She went on to create her own webseries Candy Land and her first feature Jessica Darling’s It List produced by Disney is set to come out this year.

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