August 28, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Holly Morris

HOLLY MORRIS has worked as a correspondent and author as well as directing documentary films.

Morris is the founder of Adventure Divas, a PBS documentary series, a unique character driven travel series.

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Bite-sized blog post: Nanette Burstein

NANETTE BURSTEIN is a commercial director as well as an award winning documentary filmmaker who directs television and narrative fiction film – and she co-owns a bar in NYC.

Burstein studied at NYU and her first feature On the Ropes (1999) was nominated for an Oscar and won the Sundance Jury Special Jury prize for a documentary.

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Bite-sized blog post: Millicent Shelton

MILLICENT SHELTON received an MFA at NYU and has gone on to direct for numerous television series. Her entree into the world of film was as a wardrobe assistant on Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989).

Shelton’s feature film directorial debut Ride (1998) and was the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for her directing of an episode of 30 Rock.

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Bite-sized blog post: Peggy Holmes

PEGGY HOLMES is a choreographer, dancer and director. She choreographed the scene with Michelle Pfeiffer on the piano in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989).

Her film directing debut was The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning (2008). She has gone on to direct other Disney projects.

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Bite-sized blog post: Abby Epstein

ABBY EPSTEIN directed for the theater for a number of years before adding documentary filmmaking to her repertoire. She formed a theatre company in Chicago (Roadworks Productions) and then went on to form Ricki & Abby Films with Ricki Lake.

Epstein’s first documentary Until the Violence Stops (2003) stemmed from her work on Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues.

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Bite-sized blog post: Caroline Suh

CAROLINE SUH has produced many documentaries and directed for the Sundance series Iconoclasts.

She directed the documentary Frontrunners (2008) and most recently directed a short film about gender inequity in the film industry, The 4% – which also can be viewed as a series of shorts on the Epix website.

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Bite-sized blog post: Michele Josue

MICHELE JOSUE headed to Los Angeles after graduating from Emerson College and started working as an editor and in the Art department of several features.

Her debut feature film Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine (2014) is a documentary about the tragic death of her friend Matthew Shepard.

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Bite-sized blog post: Leigh Janiak

LEIGH JANIAK co-wrote her first feature Honeymoon (2014) with her friend Phil Graziadei and it premiered at SXSW. Producer Patrick Baker had hired Janiak to work for the production company he was helming and two years later read the script and signed on to produce.

Janiak has gone on to direct for television and is attached to direct a remake of The Craft.

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Bite-sized blog post: Anne Renton

ANNE RENTON hails from Australia but directs in Los Angeles.

Her first feature film The Perfect Family (2011) stars Kathleen Turner and Emily Deschanel and tackles religion’s taboos concerning homosexuality. She has gone on to direct for television including the TV series Bones.

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Bite-sized blog post: Laura Dern

LAURA DERN is of course well known as an actor but she has also had a turn at directing a few short segments for television.

Laura Dern was a director on the Lifetime series Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013), five stories surrounding mental illness all directed by women. The series was a follow-up to the series Five of stories about women and breast cancer also all directed by women.

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