July 2, 2016 by JENDEAN

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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Bite-sized blog post: Maya Forbes

MAYA FORBES is primarily known for her work as a producer and writer for television shows such as The Larry Sanders Show and The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story.

Her directorial debut Infinitely Polar Bear (2014) was based on her experiences growing up with her father who suffered from bipolar disorder.

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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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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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Bite-sized blog post: Alexis O. Korycinski

ALEXIS O. KORYCINSKI was a participant in the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women.

Her documentary feature Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America (2011) premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

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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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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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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: Diane Bell

DIANE BELL is a yoga teacher as well as a director. Her first feature film Obselidia (2010) premiered at Sundance.

After successfully getting her feature in Sundance and receiving an award for it she started her production company Rebel Heart.

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Bite-sized blog post: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan

BERTHA BAY-SA PAN was born in New Jersey and raised in Taiwan and returned to the US to study at Boston University and get her MFA in Film from Columbia University.

Her first feature film Face (2002) premiered at Sundance. She followed it up with the feature Almost Perfect (2011).

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