January 1, 2017 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Fay Ann Lee

FAY ANN LEE is an actress, writer, producer and director. She self-produced and directed her script Falling for Grace (2006) after shopping it around only to hear the screenplay could only be made by changing the main character from Asian American to White or Hispanic. The film went on to premiere at Tribeca.

According to her website, “The Sundance Kabuki Theatre in San Francisco was the first theatre that agreed to open up “Grace”. Without any marketing dollars, Lee and her editor, Michelle Botticelli, stood outside the theatre handing out custom fortune cookies to lure in prospective audience members.”

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Bite-sized blog post: Steph Green

STEPH GREEN was nominated for an Oscar for her short film Push Hands (2004).

Her feature directorial debut Run & Jump (2013) was picked up by IFC/Sundance Selects and she has gone on to direct for numerous television series.

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Bite-sized blog post: Christina Voros

CHRISTINA VOROS is a cinematographer who has directed several narrative shorts and feature documentaries. She studied film at NYU and poetry and theatre at Harvard.

Her documentary about the fashion industry The Director: An Evolution in Three Acts (2013 premiered at Tribeca.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jillian Schlesinger

JILLIAN SCHLESINGER’s documentary Maidentrip (2013) was shot with a mostly female crew about a female sailor. The film premiered at SXSW.

Schlesinger studied creative writing and linguistic anthropology as an undergraduate at Brown University.

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Bite-sized blog post: Joan Tewkesbury

JOAN TEWKESBURY has worked in theater, film and television as a dancer, choreographer, actress, writer, director and producer.

She wrote several screenplays for Robert Altman before directing her first feature Old Boyfriends (1979) which was released by Embassy Pictures. She went on to direct for various television shows.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Steinman

JENNIFER STEINMAN began her career as an editor with CBS. She co-founded the company Smush Media.

Her feature directorial documentary debut Motherland (2009) premiered at SXSW.

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Bite-sized blog post: Audrey Ewell

AUDREY EWELL has directed two documentary features and a short narrative with her producing partner Aaron Aites who was also her life partner before he passed away from cancer in 2016.

Her documentary Until the Light Takes Us (2008) is about the Norwegian black metal scene of the early 1990s.

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