July 1, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Shola Lynch

SHOLA LYNCH began her documentary career working for Ken Burns and then went on to make the Peabody Award Winning Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004).

When she was very little (from age 2-6) she worked as an actor on Sesame Street.

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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 Mulloy

LUCY MULLOY was nominated for a Student Academy while a student at NYU for her documentary short This Morning (2005).

Her follow-up narrative fiction feature Una Noche (2012) was set and filmed on location in Cuba.

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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: Shundell Prasad

SHUNDELL PRASAD is a documentarian and narrative fiction filmmaker. She grew up in New York City where she studied film at NYU and is of Indo-Carribean descent which gives her many different perspectives for the stories she tells.

Her narrative fiction feature Festival of Lights (2010) tells the story of a young woman from NYC going to Guyana to discover the truth about her family’s past.

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Bite-sized blog post: Dena Hysell

DENA HYSELL has directed documentary and narrative fiction films. She started out as a producer after studying at Stanford and has served on the board of the non-profit Mobile Film Classroom which teaches kids storytelling and filmmaking skills.

Her directorial debut was a documentary about business people who survived and thrived despite the economic crisis, The Paladins (2012).

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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: Ami Canaan Mann

AMI CANAAN MANN is the daughter of Michael Mann (the director who made a point of seeking out a woman director to work on his television series Miami Vice and hired Jan Eliasberg to help put the action on the screen). She grew up in Indiana with her mom but has succeeded int he world of Hollywood directing television and making feature films.

Mann began as a writer, writing for TV shows such as NYPD Blue. Her film Jackie & Ryan screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2014.

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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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