Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Gomez Fisher

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NICOLE GOMEZ FISHER’s feature narrative film Sleeping with Fishes (2013) is distributed on HBO and HBO GO.

Fisher was an actress before writing and deciding to direct Sleeping with Fishes. She has gone on to direct a short film The Beauty of Disaster (2015).

 

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VIMEO

 

Bite-sized blog post: Heather Courtney

Heather Courtney of POV on PBS, winner of 'Where Soldiers Come From', for OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY – LONG FORM at the 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards; 10/1/12

HEATHER COURTNEY won an Emmy for her film Where Soldiers Come From (2011) which was part of the PBS series POV and premiered at SXSW.

Courtney was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2014.

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PBS

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ONLINE

Find her on Facebook
Find her on Twitter
New Day Films
Filmmaker Magazine
Alpheus Media
Where Soldiers Come From Website
POV Website

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Postcards from the Great Divide (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

The Big Sort (2016)

 2016Stories of the Mind (TV Series) (1 episode)

Veterans (2016)
 2014Healing Waters (Documentary short)

 P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (1 episode, 2011) (co-director – 1 episode, 2008)

Critical Condition (2008) … (co-director)
 2011Where Soldiers Come From (Documentary)
 2006Letters from the Other Side (Documentary)

 2003Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

Bite-sized blog post: Emily Hagins

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EMILY HAGINS directed her first feature film Pathogen (2006) at the age of 12.

Her most recent film Coin Heist (2017) will be distributed by Netflix.

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Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Franklin

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NICOLE FRANKLIN produces films for TV outlets such as Showtime, BET, IFC, Nickelodeon and the Sundance Channel.

She has directed several documentary shorts, the documentary feature I Was Made to Love Her (2001). Her directorial debut in narrative fiction is coming with the film Title VII.

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Her Website
Little Brother Website
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Little Brother: The Fire Next Time (Documentary short)
 2011Little Brother: The Street (Documentary short)
 2010Little Brother: Things Fall Apart (Documentary short)
 2001I Was Made to Love Her (Documentary)
 2001The Double Dutch Divas! (Short documentary)

Bite-sized blog: Drew Barrymore

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DREW BARRYMORE is an actress who jump started her career as a child with Steven Spielberg’s E.T. (1982) and comes from the iconic Barrymore family in Hollywood.

She has tried her hand at directing first with a television documetnary Choose or Lose Presents: The Best Place to Start (2004) and then went on to direct the narrative feature film Whip It (2009), a Fox Searchlight film.

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FOX SEARCHLIGHT WEBSITE

Bite-sized blog post: Sonia Kennebeck

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SONIA KENNEBECK is an investigative journalist and filmmaker.

Her first feature documentary National Bird (2016) about the U.S. drone war premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

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National Bird Website
Women & Hollywood Interview
Interview
Filmmaker Magazine
Ten Forward Films
ITVS

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016National Bird (Documentary)
 2013Sex: Made in Germany (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog: Edet Belzberg

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EDET BELZBERG received her MA from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.

Her documentary feature film debut Children Underground (2001) won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance.

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Where to watch her films:

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ONLINE

Watchers of the Sky Website
Filmmaker Magazine
HBO Interview
Indiewire Interview
MacArthur Foundation
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014Watchers of the Sky (Documentary)
 2008The Recruiter (Documentary)
 2006Time Piece (Documentary) (segment “Bobby’s Tale”)
 2005Gymnast (Documentary)
 2001Children Underground (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Jill Campbell

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JILL CAMPBELL is a playwright and producer who directed the documentary The Hamlet of Canfield Gardens (2016) about her mentor playwright and poet Bernard Kops.

She “began her career running lines with Morgan Freeman and the Public Theatre.”

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Bite-sized blog post: Elisabeth Sperling

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ELISABETH SPERLING has an MA from Columbia Teacher’s College and has been working in documentary filmmaking since 2005.

She co-directed One Night Stand (2011) with Trish Dalton which documents the creative process pf a group of Broadway and TV professionals participating in a 24 hour play event for charity.

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AMAZON

ONE NIGHT STAND WEBSITE

Bite-sized blog post: Trish Dalton

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TRISH DALTON studied film at NYU. Her film Bordering on Treason (2013) premiered at DOC NYC. She is part of a film collective, Lucky Cat Pictures.

She co-directed One Night Stand (2011) with Elisabeth Sperling which documents the creative process pf a group of Broadway and TV professionals participating in a 24 hour play event for charity.

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Where to watch her films:

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LUCKY CAT PICTURES

ONE NIGHT STAND WEBSITE

Read more about her:

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Her Website
Find her film on Facebook
Innovation Navigation Website
One Night Stand Website
New York Times
Queens World Film Festival

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Ambience, the web series (TV Movie) (co-director) (completed)
 2016Election Year (Documentary)
 2015Ambience (TV Series)
 2014Like Everybody Else (Documentary short)
 2013Bordering on Treason (Documentary short)
 2013Southmost U.S.A. (Video documentary short)
 2007The Farm Sanctuary (Short)