June 21, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Tiffany Shlain

TIFFANY SHLAIN has directed numerous documentary shorts and a feature documentary exploring her interest in technology Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology and a TV series exploring the same topic.

Shlain also has been nominated for an Emmy and founded the Webby Awards.

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AMAZON

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt

MARION LPISCHUTZ and ROSE ROSENBLATT are documentarians who teamed up to create Incite Pictures and make movies.

They are known for documentaries about social issues and with strong central characters such as The Education of Shelby Knox (2005) about a young woman who fights for sex education and gay rights in Lubbock, Texas.

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AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Conn

NICOLE CONN’s film A Perfect Ending (2012) is currently the best selling lesbian themed movie of all time.

Conn has done both narrative fiction and documentary films which includes Little Man (2005), a documentary about her experiences having a son born 100 days premature.

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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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VIMEO

YOUTUBE

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: Kate Kaminski

In addition to directing her own films (narrative and documentary), KATE KAMINSKI is the founder and Artistic Director of the Bluestocking Film Series, a festival specializing in films with complex female protagonists.

You can watch one of her features, The Crew (2012) on her company vimeo page (Gitgo Productions).

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VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Tracy Lynch Britton

Nicknamed “Boom Boom Britton” by her crew for her love of action sequences, TRACY LYNCH BRITTON was the first woman to direct for Baywatch.

She made her directorial debut with the low-budget thriller Maximum Breakout (1991) and continues to direct for television and has features in development!

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AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Zeinabu Irene Davis

ZEINABU IRENE DAVIS teaches film at UC San Diego and can boast an eclectic range of films, having made narrative, experimental and documentary.

Her most recent feature is a documentary about the UCLA film movement now known as the LA Rebellion (the group included filmmaker Julie Dash) – Spirits of Rebellion: Black Film at UCLA (2011).

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WOMEN MAKE MOVIES

Bite-sized blog post: Barbra Streisand

BARBRA STREISAND is a musical theater and actress powerhouse who made her directorial debut with Yentl (1983) which she fought to get made and opened the door for future directing and producing opportunities.

Much like Mary Pickford in the early days of the industry Streisand insists on shaping her own career. She was the Oscar presenter for the monumental moment when Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director.

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HULU

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