Tag / Indie Film

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Bite-sized blog post: Grace Lee

Grace Lee

GRACE LEE directs both documentaries and narrative fiction films. She started out as a journalist before deciding to share stories via film.

Lee then attended UCLA to study film. She is  a 2016 Sundance Institute Women’s Initiative fellow.

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Where to watch her films:

PBS

VIMEO (WOMEN MAKE MOVIES)

HER WEBSITE

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
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Her Website
American Revolutionary Website
PBS
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Off the Menu: Asian America (Documentary)
 2014Makers: Women in Politics (Documentary)
 2014P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
 2005The Grace Lee Project (Documentary)
 2004Best of the Wurst (Documentary short)
 2002Barrier Device (Short)
 2000/IIThe Ride Home (Short)
 2000Girl Meets Boy (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Chiemi Karasawa

New York, NY- February 19: Director Chiemi Karasawa attends Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me New York Premiere at the Paley Center on February 19, 2014 in New York City. Credit RTNStevens/MediaPunch

CHIEMI KARASAWA has produced almost twenty documentaries and is credited with directing two including Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013).

She has also worked as a script supervisor on numerous narrative fiction films. She founded Isotope Films.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

ISOTOPE WEBSITE

VIMEO

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Isotope Films Website
Find her movie Twitter
Find her on Facebook
Film Indpendent Interview
Reddit Conversation
Vanity Fair

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Meet the Midtown Men (TV Movie documentary)
 2013Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (Documentary) (attached)
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Bite-sized blog post: Kathleen Davison

Kathleen Davison

In the midst of post-production for her first film KATHLEEN DAVISON was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She postponed surgery to complete the film.

A graduate of Penn State’s Theatre department Davison moved to Los Angeles and started working on sets in order to learn about making movies. Her feature film Primrose Lane (2015) has garnered her critical acclaim in the festival circuit and she is healthy post-surgery!

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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

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Alumna Kathleen Davison postpones brain tumor surgery to finish her film
Primrose Lane Kickstarter page

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015We Care Dental (TV Movie)
 2015Effloresce (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Amy Williams

Amy Williams

AMY WILLIAMS studied film at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and went on to make the award winning documentary The Morrison Project (2003).

She established the production company Little Voice Films in 2009.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

Read more about her:

ONLINE

The Morrison Project on Facebook
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Little Voice Films Website
Review of The Morrison Project

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Respire (Short) (post-production)
 2008My Blood (Short)
 2003The Morrison Project (Documentary)
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Bite-sized blog post: Amanda Marsalis

Amanda Marsalis

AMANDA MARSALIS’ directorial feature debut Echo Park (2014) was picked up for distribution by Ava Duvernay’s company ARRAY and can be viewed on Netflix.

Marsalis began her career as a photographer studying at California College of Arts and Crafts.

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NETFLIX

VIMEO

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ONLINE

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ARRAY NOW
Ava Duvernay’s Array Acquires Indie Drama ‘Echo Park’

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014 Echo Park

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Bite-sized blog post: Jann Turner

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

HULU

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ONLINE

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Her Website
It’s a Nice Day for Jann Turner’s “White Wedding”
My Normal, Crazy, Mixed-Up Country — South Africa
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014-2016Jane the Virgin (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Chapter Forty Four (2016)
– Chapter Twenty-Seven (2015)
– Chapter Six (2014)

 2016Grace and Frankie (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Chicken (2016)

 2015-2016Scandal (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Trump Card (2016)
– Paris Is Burning (2015)

 2016The Catch (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Benefactor (2016)

 2015-2016Chicago P.D. (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Forty-Caliber Bread Crumb (2016)
– Get Back to Even (2015)

 2013-2016Chicago Fire (TV Series) (5 episodes)

– Bad for the Soul (2016)
– Chopper (2014)
– When Things Got Rough (2014)
– Tonight’s the Night (2014)
– A Power Move (2013)

 2016Chicago Med (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Saints (2016)

 2015Complications (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Fever (2015)

 2015The Fosters (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Faith, Hope, Love (2015)

 2015Castle (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Hong Kong Hustle (2015)

 2015Scorpion (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Forget Me Nots (2015)

 2013-2014Alpha House (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– The Civility Zone (2014)
– The Rebuttal (2013)

 2014Satisfaction (TV Series) (1 episode)

– …Through Security (2014)

 2014The Divide (TV Series) (1 episode)

– I Can’t Go Back (2014)

 2014Teen Wolf (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Time of Death (2014)

 2013The Neighbors (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Supreme Like Me (2013)

 2013Save Me (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Whatever the Weather (2013)

 2012-2013The Big C (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– You Can’t Take It with You (2013)
– Killjoy (2012)
– How Bazaar (2012)

 2013The Carrie Diaries (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Identity Crisis (2013)

 2013Emily Owens M.D. (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Emily and… The Leap (2013)

 2013Journey Into the Dark Ages (TV Mini-Series documentary) (1 episode)

– Great Women of the Middle Ages (2013)
 2005Hard Copy (TV Series)
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Bite-sized blog post: Katherine Nolfi

Katherine Nolfi

KATHERINE NOLFI studied film as an Undergraduate at NYU.

She has written several features and co-directed her first feature film Upstate (2010) with director Andrew Luis.

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Where to watch her films:

YOUTUBE

Read more about her:

ONLINE

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Talking Upstate, collaboration, and filmmaking with Andrew Luis and Katherine Nolfi from The LAFF
Screenwriters Colony Profile
Indiewire Interview

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2011Mouth Babies (Short)
 2010Upstate (co-director)
 2009Unlimited (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Kate Chaplin

Kate Chaplin

KATE CHAPLIN has directed two features and founded her own production company Karmic Courage.

Ingenue (2013), her first feature can be watched on YouTube. Chaplin has a podcast where she talks movies!

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Where to watch her films:

VIMEO

YOUTUBE

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ONLINE

Her Website
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Her podcast

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Ingénue
 2012Home Security (Short)
 2012Love Dance (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Fogel

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON (Streaming)

Magnolia Pictures site links for Life Partners

NETFLIX

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ONLINE

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Tribeca Women Directors: Meet Susanna Fogel (Life Partners)
Interview
WGA Article about Chasing Life
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Chasing Life (TV Series) (1 episode)

– As Long as We Both Shall Live (2015)
 2008Joni & Susanna (TV Series)

 

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Bite-sized blog post: Victoria Mahoney

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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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

VIMEO

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ONLINE

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Filmmaker Magazine
Her Website
Indiewire Interview
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Queen Sugar (TV Series) (1 episode) (pre-production)

– Episode #1.5 (2016)
 2014Bleach (TV Movie)

 2013The Conversation (TV Series) (1 episode)

– UK Special (2013) … (2013)
 2013Exhale (TV Series) (2013)
 2013Searching (Short)
 2012Wracked (Short)