July 12, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Alicia Dwyer

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ALICIA DWYER directed for the Independent Lens series The Calling.

Her work with PBS and ITVS on The Calling led to their distribution of her feature length film Xmas Without China (2013). She has also produced fiction films, including the feature Hostile Border (2015).

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ITVS – THE CALLING

ITVS – NINE TO NINETY

VIMEO

VERACITY PRODUCTIONS WEBSITE

Bite-sized blog post: Tracy Droz Tragos

TRACY DROZ TRAGOS is a documentary and narrative filmmaker who formed her company Dinky Pictures to “tell personal, intimate stories with a focused perspective, giving voice to people, families and circumstances that otherwise would go unnoticed.”

Her first film Be Good Smile Pretty (2003) was inspired by a photograph she found of her father taken the day he died in Vietnam and was part of the Independent Lens series on PBS.

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AMAZON

NETFLIX

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Vanessa Hope

VANESSA HOPE directed several shorts about China before embarking on her feature length documentary film All Eyes and Ears (2015) addressing US-China relations.

Before becoming a filmmaker Hope studied law and worked in foreign policy. She is fluent in Chinese and and produced a web series for NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute called Law, Life & Asia.

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ALL EYES AND EARS WEBSITE

FANDOR

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Deborah Attoinese

DEBORAH ATTOINESE directed a documentary On Directing (2014) featuring directors Agnes Varda, Wim Wenders, Roland Joffe and Bille August which is available on Fandor.

Attoinese worked as a fashion photographer before making her first feature film Zoe (2001) which was screened at AFI, Palm Springs International Film Festival and other prestigious festivals.

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AMAZON

FANDOR

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Debbie Goodstein

DEBBIE GOODSTEIN’s first feature film Voices from the Attic (1988) has her going to Poland to learn about the family who hid her mother during World War II.

Her narrative film, Mighty Fine (2012), also features a fictionalized version of her family – but takes place here in the United States.

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AMAZON

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Shola Lynch

SHOLA LYNCH began her documentary career working for Ken Burns and then went on to make the Peabody Award Winning Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004).

When she was very little (from age 2-6) she worked as an actor on Sesame Street.

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AMAZON

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES

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Bite-sized blog post: Lucy Mulloy

LUCY MULLOY was nominated for a Student Academy while a student at NYU for her documentary short This Morning (2005).

Her follow-up narrative fiction feature Una Noche (2012) was set and filmed on location in Cuba.

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AMAZON

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Lucy Phenix

LUCY PHENIX is known for her social documentary films which spring from her background as a community organizer and teacher.

You Got to Move (1985), a documentary about the grassroots movement for social change in the South, is in the video collection of the MacArthur Foundation which puts it in public libraries throughout the US.

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AMAZON

MILESTONE FILMS

HER WEBSITE

Bite-sized blog post: Suju Vijayan

SUJU VIJAYAN has worked as a senior story producer on the infamous series The Bachelor but she has also directed both documentary and fiction television.

Her most recent film The Playback Singer (2013) features Bollywood star Piyush Mishra and was funded in part by a Kickstarter campaign.

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AMAZON

iTUNES

THE PLAYBACK SINGER WEBSITE

Bite-sized blog post: Shundell Prasad

SHUNDELL PRASAD is a documentarian and narrative fiction filmmaker. She grew up in New York City where she studied film at NYU and is of Indo-Carribean descent which gives her many different perspectives for the stories she tells.

Her narrative fiction feature Festival of Lights (2010) tells the story of a young woman from NYC going to Guyana to discover the truth about her family’s past.

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iTUNES

VIMEO

THE 2ND SEX & THE 7TH ART: WOMEN DIRECTORS IN FILM

Female filmmakers: Investigating their works, history and advocacy in the U.S. from 1896-present.

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