Bite-sized blog post: Kate Chaplin

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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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

YOUTUBE

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Her Website
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Her podcast

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Ingénue
 2012Home Security (Short)
 2012Love Dance (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Fogel

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

Magnolia Pictures site links for Life Partners

NETFLIX

Read more about her:

ONLINE

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Tribeca Women Directors: Meet Susanna Fogel (Life Partners)
Interview
WGA Article about Chasing Life
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Chasing Life (TV Series) (1 episode)

 2008Joni & Susanna (TV Series)

 

Bite-sized blog post: Victoria Mahoney

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE

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Filmmaker Magazine
Her Website
Indiewire Interview
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Queen Sugar (TV Series) (1 episode) (pre-production)

Episode #1.5 (2016)
 2014Bleach (TV Movie)

 2013The Conversation (TV Series) (1 episode)

UK Special (2013) … (2013)
 2013Exhale (TV Series) (2013)
 2013Searching (Short)
 2012Wracked (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Valerie Breiman

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.

 

Bite-sized blog post: Aleta Chappelle

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Aleta Chappelle Professional Biography
Tribeca
Rolling Stone
University of Nottingham

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2004Return of Fire (Video)
 2002Fire (Video)
 1999Goosed

Bite-sized blog post: Amy Berg

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

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ONLINE

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Disarming Films Website
Huffington Post
Deadline
Indiewire Interview
Variety
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Janis: Little Girl Blue (Documentary) (as Amy J. Berg)
 2015Prophet’s Prey (Documentary)
 2014/IAn Open Secret (Documentary)
 2012West of Memphis (Documentary)
 2007Polarized (Short)
 2006Deliver Us from Evil (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Styron

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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Where to watch her films:

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

AMAZON (Streaming)

AMAZON (DVDs/BluRays for PURCHASE)

HULU

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Interview
9/12: From Chaos to Community website
NYWIFT event
Website for her film Out of my Head
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

All Downhill From Here (TV Series) (1 episode)

 20069/12: From Chaos to Community (Documentary)

 2001100 Centre Street (TV Series) (1 episode)

Bottlecaps (2001)
 1998Shadrach

Bite-sized blog post: Marcy Boyle & Rachel Holzman

DPYX

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

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ONLINE

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Interview
Starburst Magazine Interview
Filmmaking Team DPYX Creating The Debra Hill Documentary
Ms. in the Biz

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Bite-sized blog post: Shira Piven

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

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ONLINE

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Alliance of Women Film Directors
New York TImes
Chicago Tribune
Wikiepdia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Lifecasters (TV Movie documentary)
 2012The Beast and the Angel (Documentary short)

Bite-sized blog post: Laura Lau

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find Silent House on Twitter
Directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau SILENT HOUSE Interview
Complex Interview
Interview

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2011 Silent House