Bite-iszed blog post: Anna Boden

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ANNA BODEN has teamed with Ryan Fleck to make several independent films, starting with Half Nelson (2006).

She has also directed for several television series.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

Read more about her:

ONLINE

IndieWire
Filmmaker Interview
Interview 1
Interview 2
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden Return to Their Sundance Roots with Mississippi Grind
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Billions (TV Series) (2 episodes)

Episode #2.2 (2017)
Magical Thinking (2016)

 2015The Affair (TV Series) (2 episodes)

207 (2015)
203 (2015)

 2011The Big C (TV Series) (2 episodes)

How Do You Feel? (2011)
A Little Death (2011)
 2008/ISugar
 2005Young Rebels (Documentary)
 2003Have You Seen This Man? (Documentary short)

Bite-sized blog post: Rachel Grady

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RACHEL GRADY co-directs with Heidi Ewing through their company Loki Films – they were nominated for an Academy Award for their film Jesus Camp (2006).

With Ewing she raised funds for their film Detropia (2012) at the Sundance Film Festival where they premiered 12th & Deleware (2010), an HBO Documentary Film.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

WE THE ECONOMY – 20 Short Films you can’t afford to miss

POV

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Loki Films
Detropia Website
Docuweek Interview
Hollywood Reporter: includes VIDEO
POV
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015A Dream Preferred (Documentary short)

 2014Makers: Women Who Make America (TV Mini-Series documentary) (2 episodes)

Women in War (2014)
Women in Comedy (2014)

 2013Vanity Fair: Decades (TV Mini-Series short) (1 episode)

 2013Nine for IX (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

Branded (2013)
 2013The Education of Mohammad Hussein (Documentary short) (co-director)
 2012Detropia (Documentary)

 2010True Life (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

 2010Freakonomics (Documentary)
 201012th & Delaware (Documentary) (co-director)

 2009NOW on PBS (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

 2008The Lord’s Boot Camp (TV Movie documentary)

 2006P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

 2006Jesus Camp (Documentary)
 2005The Boys of Baraka (Documentary)
 2004Mad Justice (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Heidi Ewing

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HEIDI EWING co-directed Jesus Camp (2006) which was nominated for an Academy Award.

She runs her company Loki Films with Rachel Grady and has directed and produced numerous documentaries including Detropia (2012)

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

WE THE ECONOMY – 20 Short Films you can’t afford to miss

POV

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Loki Films
Detropia Website
Docuweek Interview
Hollywood Reporter: includes VIDEO
POV
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015A Dream Preferred (Documentary short)

 2014Makers: Women Who Make America (TV Mini-Series documentary) (2 episodes)

Women in War (2014)
Women in Comedy (2014)

 2013Vanity Fair: Decades (TV Mini-Series short) (1 episode)

 2013Nine for IX (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

Branded (2013)
 2013The Education of Mohammad Hussein (Documentary short) (co-director)
 2012Detropia (Documentary)

 2010True Life (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

 2010Freakonomics (Documentary)
 201012th & Delaware (Documentary) (co-director)

 2009NOW on PBS (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

 2008The Lord’s Boot Camp (TV Movie documentary)

 2006P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

 2006Jesus Camp (Documentary)
 2005The Boys of Baraka (Documentary)
 2001Rite of Passage (TV Movie documentary)
 1999Guns in America: Gun Life (TV Movie)

 1998Investigative Reports (TV Series) (1 episode)

Bite-sized blog post: Bonni Cohen

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BONNI COHEN has a production company in San Francisco, Actual Films which she runs with her husband. She co-founded the Catapult Film Fund to help fund documentary films in development.

Her documentary Audrie & Daisy premiered at Sundance and was picked up by Netflix.

 

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Audrie & Daisy (Documentary)

 2007-2009National Geographic Explorer (TV Series documentary) (3 episodes)

Inside Bethlehem (2007)
 2006The Rape of Europa (Documentary)

 Wild on the Set (TV Series) (1 episode, 2000) (second director – 1 episode, 2000)

Snakes (2000) … (second director)
Primates (2000)
 1998Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm (TV Movie documentary)
 1994Meet Me in Miami Beach (Documentary short) (as Bonnie Cohen)

Bite-sized blog post: Kristin Hahn

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KRISTIN HAHN began her career directing the independent documentary Anthem (1997) where she set out with her friend Shainee Gabel to interview people across America about the American dream. She studied at USC.

She has gone on to work as a producer for Jennifer Aniston’s company Echo Films where she gathered a group of female directors to work on Five (2011), a group of short films about breast cancer for Lifetime television. She has since gone on to form her own production company Hahnscape which will focus on literary adaptations.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

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ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI worked as an assistant director for Mike Nichols before venturing into her career as a documentary filmmaker. Vasarhelyi is the daughter of academics and studied at Princeton.

In 2013 Vasarhelyi was named a Sundance Documentary Film Fellow and in 2015 her film Meru premiered at Sundance.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Her Website
Meet the 2015 Sundance Filmmakers #55: E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Team for Big Wall Climbing Documentary ‘Meru’
Interview
Indiewire
The New Yorker
VIDEO: Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Incorruptible (Documentary)
 2015Meru (Documentary)
 2013Touba (Documentary)
 2003/IIA Normal Life (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Siebel Newsom

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JENNIFER SIEBEL NEWSOM’s feature directorial debut Miss Representation (2011) tackled representations of women in the media.

Newsom has also worked as an actor in film and television and has a business degree from Stanford. Her second documentary The Mask You Live in (2015) looks at masculinity in American society.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Find her on Twitter
Jennifer Siebel Newsom a leader of new generation of feminists
Makers Profile
The Representation Project Website
Jennifer Siebel Newsom: The Woman Behind the Iron Mask
Governor Gavin Newsom Website
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015The Mask You Live In (Documentary)
 2011Miss Representation (Documentary)

Bite-sized blog: Jennifer Congdon

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JESSICA CONGDON co-directed the documentary Race to Nowhere (2010) with Vicki Abeles. She produced, edited and wrote Miss Representation (2011) and works regularly as an editor.

Congdon studied at UC Berkeley and the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently directing a series on food and travel Places and Plates.

Bite-sized blog post: Patricia Riggen

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The DGA makes the claim that Patricia Riggen “may be the only Mexican-born woman directing movies in Hollywood today.” Riggens received her MFA in film from Columbia.

Her first feature film Under the Star Moon (2007) premiered at Sundance.

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

NETFLIX

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Her Website
Variety
DGA
Female Directors Patricia Riggen and Jessie Nelson on Getting a Foothold in Hollywood: ‘It Hasn’t Been Fun at All’
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015The 33
 2011Lemonade Mouth (TV Movie)
 2010Revolución (segment “Lindo y querido”)
 2004Family Portrait (Documentary short)
 2002The Cornfield (Short)

Bite-sized blog post: Ivy Meeropol

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IVY MEEROPOL directed The Hill, a six part documentary series for the Sundance Channel about staffers in Congressman Wexler’s office.

Meeropol’s HBO documentary Heir to an Execution is about her search for the story of her grandparents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

 

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Where to watch her films:

AMAZON

SUNDANCE TV

Read more about her:

ONLINE

Indian Point Film Website
‘I had to know why my grandparents died’
Women & Hollywood Interview
Interview
Catapult Film Fund
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Indian Point (Documentary)

 2014Death Row Stories (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)

Killer Cop (2014)
 2004Heir to an Execution (Documentary)
 1986America Undercover (TV Series documentary) (episode “Heir to an Execution”)