Bite-sized blog post: Drew Denny

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DREW DENNY began her adult life as a documentary photographer traveling the world. She has gone on to make music and movies.

Her feature film The Most Fun I’ve Had with My Pants on (2012) was an AFI Official Selection, screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival along with other film festivals around the world.

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VIMEO
AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Olivia Mori

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OLIVIA MORI is an accomplished costume designer who studied film at the Rhode Island School of Design before directing her first documentary feature Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2012).

They crowdfunded the production (which required licensing much music) through Kickstarter.

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Filmmaker Magazine Interview
KICKSTART THIS! DREW DENICOLA, DANIELLE MCCARTHY & OLIVIA MORI’S ROCKIN’ DOC “BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME”
WPRK Radio Interview
Zimbio
New Zealand International Film Festival
Light in the Attic

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

2012Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (Documentary) (co-director)

Bite-sized blog post: Patricia Birch

Patricia Birch in attendance for 28th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, Gerald Lynch Auditorium at John Jay College, New York, NY June 7, 2010. Photo By: Rob Rich/Everett Collection

PATRICIA BIRCH is a choreographer and directorIn addition to choreographing for iconic television series (Saturday Night LiveBoardwalk Empire) she has also choreographed for feature films including Penny Marshall’s Big (1988) with the famous scene of Tom Hanks dancing on the life-size piano.

Her directorial credits include Grease 2 (1982). She won an Emmy for directing Unforgettable, with Love: Natalie Cole Sings the Songs of Nat King Cole (1992).

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From Anybodys to Somebody: The Uber-Versatile Pat Birch Gets a Well-Deserved Award
A Life in the Theatre: Choreographer Patricia Birch
 Television Academy
Broadway World
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 1994Cyndi Lauper: 12 Deadly Cyns… and Then Some (Video documentary) (videos “Money Changes Everything”, “True Colors”)
 1987The Gershwin Gala (TV Movie)
 1986Callanetics (Video)
 1982Grease 2