May 26, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Diablo Cody

Diablo Cody is best known for her work as a screenwriter, having won an Academy Award for Juno (2007) and has written for TV and film before directing her first (and based on her experiences apparently) directorial endeavor Paradise (2013).

She continues to write for film and television!

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AMAZON

YOU TUBE

Bite-sized blog post: Jann Turner

JANN TURNER studied at Oxford and got her MFA from NYU. She co-wrote and directed her first feature The White Wedding in 2008.

Turner made her American television directing debut in 2012 with The Big C starring Laura Linney.

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AMAZON

HULU

Bite-sized blog post: Bronwen Hughes

BRONWEN HUGHES is best known for directing for television including for the popular Breaking Bad series.

She also directed the feature film Forces of Nature (1999) starring Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock.

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Bite-sized blog post: Ali Scher

ALI SCHER got her MFA from USC after directing theatre as an Undergrad. She won a Student Emmy and won the DGA Jury Award for Best Female Filmmaker.

She went on to create her own webseries Candy Land and her first feature Jessica Darling’s It List produced by Disney is set to come out this year.

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Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Fogel

SUSANNA FOGEL’s first feature Life Parnters (2014) was based on a play she co-wrote with her screenwriting partner and friend Joni Lefkowitz.

The film was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and the two of them went on to create Chasing Life, a tv series about a woman battling cancer for ABC.

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AMAZON (Streaming)

Magnolia Pictures site links for Life Partners

NETFLIX

Bite-sized blog post: Victoria Mahoney

VICTORIA MAHONEY began her career as an actress where she first met Ava Duvernay, appearing in a short film directed by Duvernay. Mahoney went on to direct her first feature Yelling to the Sky (2011) which won critical acclaim a the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW.

Mahoney is slated to direct an episode of Duvernay’s television series Queen Sugar.

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Bite-sized blog post: Valerie Breiman

VALERIE BREIMAN’s film Love & Sex (2000) was based on her relationship with Adam Rifkin, who also wrote a script on the subject of their relationship that didn’t make it to the screen.

Breiman began her career as an actress and started directing with her first feature Going Overboard (1989), an Adam Sandler film.

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Bite-sized blog post: Amy Berg

AMY BERG’s recent film Janis: Little Girl (2015), about the life of singer Janis Joplin screened at the Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim.

She founded Disarming Films, a documentary production company.

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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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Bite-sized blog post: Rachel Talalay

RACHEL TALALAY studied mathematics at Yale while running the Yale film society. Her directorial debut was doe one of the famous Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in 1991 before directing the cult classic Tank Girl (1995).

She has directed numerous television shows including the resurgence of the classic Dr. Who series and is the first woman to direct for the BBC Sherlock series.

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