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Bite-sized blog post: Nicole Gomez Fisher

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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Bite-sized blog post: Rachel Grady

RACHEL GRADY co-directs with Heidi Ewing through their company Loki Films – they were nominated for an Academy Award for their film Jesus Camp (2006).

With Ewing she raised funds for their film Detropia (2012) at the Sundance Film Festival where they premiered 12th & Deleware (2010), an HBO Documentary Film.

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WE THE ECONOMY – 20 Short Films you can’t afford to miss

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Bite-sized blog post: Hannah Fidell

HANNAH FIDELL studied film theory at Indiana University and film at The New School in New York.

She supported herself as a waiter while making her feature film A Teacher (2013) – the film is now being adapted by HBO (working with Fidell) into a television series.

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Bite-sized blog post: Alexandra Shiva

ALEXANDRA SHIVA’s most recent documentary about autism How to Dance in Ohio (2015) premiered at Sundance and was distributed by HBO.

Shiva formed her company Gidalya Pictures while her making her first feature documentary Bombay Eunuch (2001).

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Bite-sized blog post: Lena Dunham

LENA DUNHAM began her career making short films that got tons of hits on Youtube.

Her parents told her that they would pay for her to go to graduate school or fund a feature film. Dunham chose to make her first feature Tiny Furniture (2010).

She went on to utilize social media to gain notoriety and create the hit series Girls for HBO.

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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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