May 17, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Kate Chaplin

KATE CHAPLIN has directed two features and founded her own production company Karmic Courage.

Ingenue (2013), her first feature can be watched on YouTube. Chaplin has a podcast where she talks movies!

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Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Fogel

SUSANNA FOGEL’s first feature Life Parnters (2014) was based on a play she co-wrote with her screenwriting partner and friend Joni Lefkowitz.

The film was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and the two of them went on to create Chasing Life, a tv series about a woman battling cancer for ABC.

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AMAZON (Streaming)

Magnolia Pictures site links for Life Partners

NETFLIX

Bite-sized blog post: Victoria Mahoney

VICTORIA MAHONEY began her career as an actress where she first met Ava Duvernay, appearing in a short film directed by Duvernay. Mahoney went on to direct her first feature Yelling to the Sky (2011) which won critical acclaim a the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW.

Mahoney is slated to direct an episode of Duvernay’s television series Queen Sugar.

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AMAZON

NETFLIX

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Valerie Breiman

VALERIE BREIMAN’s film Love & Sex (2000) was based on her relationship with Adam Rifkin, who also wrote a script on the subject of their relationship that didn’t make it to the screen.

Breiman began her career as an actress and started directing with her first feature Going Overboard (1989), an Adam Sandler film.

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AMAZON

iTUNES

Bite-sized blog post: Aleta Chappelle

ALETA CHAPPELLE works primarily as a casting director but has always been interested in storytelling on a larger scale. She studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and then went on to cast films for Francis Ford Coppola who executive produced her directorial feature debut Goosed (1999).

Her most recent film Romeo and Juliet in Harlem (2015) was funded via a crowdfunding campaign and brings her back to her classical theatre roots.

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AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

Bite-sized blog post: Amy Berg

AMY BERG’s recent film Janis: Little Girl (2015), about the life of singer Janis Joplin screened at the Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim.

She founded Disarming Films, a documentary production company.

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AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Styron

After receiving an MFA in filmmaking from AFI, SUSANNA STYRON directed her first feature film Shadrach (1998) based on a short story written by her father, the famous novelist William Styron

She went on to direct for television and while wading through the difficulties of development that is so often associated with narrative fiction films she directed a documentary with an incredible cast of real life heroes from the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

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9/12:FROM CHAOS TO COMMUNITY (DVD’s for PURCHASE)

AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

HULU

Bite-sized blog post: Marcy Boyle & Rachel Holzman

MARCY BOYLE and RACHEL HOLZMAN met while students at Barnard College in New York. They collaborated on scripts and both had written bigger budget fair that wasn’t getting produced so they decided to collaborate on a project they could do themselves. Nobody Can Cool (2015), a neo-noir-horror thriller was born!

They are now collaborating on a documentary about Hollywood producer Debra Hill who after successfully producing the Halloween movies as well as critically acclaimed movies such as The Fisher King (1991) and many others died at age 55 of cancer.

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AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Shira Piven

SHIRA PIVEN taught acting in prison through the Actors Gang prison project before directing films. Her most recent feature Welcome to Me (2014) stars Kristen Wiig and is available on Netflix.

She has been slated to direct for Transparent.

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Bite-sized blog post: Laura Lau

LAURA LAU worked with Chris Kentis as a writer and producer on the films Open Water (2003) and Grind (1997) before her co-directing debut with Kentis on Silent House (2011).

Silent House used the one-take convention before Birdman but after Russian Ark!

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