May 17, 2016 by JENDEAN

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: Aleta Chappelle

ALETA CHAPPELLE works primarily as a casting director but has always been interested in storytelling on a larger scale. She studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and then went on to cast films for Francis Ford Coppola who executive produced her directorial feature debut Goosed (1999).

Her most recent film Romeo and Juliet in Harlem (2015) was funded via a crowdfunding campaign and brings her back to her classical theatre roots.

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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: Kate Kaminski

In addition to directing her own films (narrative and documentary), KATE KAMINSKI is the founder and Artistic Director of the Bluestocking Film Series, a festival specializing in films with complex female protagonists.

You can watch one of her features, The Crew (2012) on her company vimeo page (Gitgo Productions).

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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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HULU

Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Fox

JENNIFER FOX is a documentary filmmaker who recently directed a narrative fiction film starring Laura Dern and Ellen Burstyn, The Tale.

She is president of Zohe Film Productions, an independent New York Film company.

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Bite-sized blog post: Kathi Carey

KATHI CAREY segued from working as an actor to filmmaking and directed numerous episodes of a talk-show series called Casting Q’s created by Bonnie Gillespie.

She has shadowed several television directors, continues to direct shorts and has features in development.

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Bite-sized blog post: Valerie Faris

Teaming up with her husband VALERIE FARIS created the show The Cutting Edge for MTV and then went on to form production company Bob Industries where they have directed numerous commercials.

They continued to work together directing music videos and documentaries before teaming up for their first feature film Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

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