June 2, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Katie Aselton

The Duplass brothers are known for their indie film making as well as their acting – KATIE ASELTON is part of that production team and directed her first feature, which was self-funded thanks to her acting work, The Freebie (2010).

Her second feature was the the indie thriller Black Rock (2012).

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Bite-sized blog post: Chloe Zhao

CHLOE ZHAO studied political science at Mount Holyoke College before attending NYU for an MFA in film and then writing and directing her first feature Songs my Brothers Taught Me (2015).

The film premiered at Sundance in 2015.

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Bite-sized blog post: Hilary Brougher

HILARY BROUGHER teaches at Columbia University film school in NYC. Her first featue film The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997) was produced by Good Machine.

Her second feature Stephanie Daley (2006) premiered at Sundance.

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Bite-sized blog post: Sophie Hyde

The same year Richard Linklater came out with his Academy Award winning film Boyhood (2014) SOPHIE HYDE went to Sundance with her film 52 Tuesdays (2013), a film where the story unfolds and is shot every week for a year with actors and crew gathering every Tuesday to shoot a new scene.

52 Tuesdays won the World Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance in 2014.

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Bite-sized blog post: Marielle Heller

MARIELLE HELLER first wrote and directed her feature film The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) as a play based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner.

The film premiered at Sundance and led to her directing for Amazon’s Transparent and Hulu’s Casual.

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Bite-sized blog post: Karyn Kusama

KARYN KUSAMA’S first film Girlfight (2000) premiered at Sundance and after its success she went on to direct the studio feature Aeon Flux (2005).

Her most recent feature The Invitation (2015) was part of the new narrative fiction funding offspring of Chicken & Egg – Gamechanger films.

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Bite-sized blog post: Neema Barnette

NEEMA BARNETTE is the first African-American sticom director and she has directed numerous sitcoms.

Barnette has joined forces with Ava Duvernay on her new show Queen Sugar which brags an all female directing slate. She graduated with a BA from the City College of New York and an MFA from NYU Tisch School o f the Arts.

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Bite-sized blog post: Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy may be a famous French actress but she’s also a director. Her first feature film Looking for Jimmy (2002) was shot in real time in Los Angeles – only stopping the shoot when camera batteries had to be changed.

She went on to write and direct Two Days in Paris (2007) and the sequel Two Days in New York (2012).

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Bite-sized blog post: Courtney Hunt

COURNEY HUNT went to law school before attending Columbia film school and used her legal background to work and pay for film school.

Her first feature film Frozen River (2008) won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay.

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Bite-sized blog post: Darnell Martin

DARNELL MARTIN was rejected three times from NYU film school before finally attending to get her MFA. While not getting into NYU she was working on sets and finally was accepted after a personal recommendation from Spike Lee who she worked with as an AC on Do The Right Thing.

Martin is touted as the first African American female to direct a studio film with her first feature I Like It Like That (1994). She has gone on to direct the feature film Cadillac Records (2008) and an adaptation of Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) as well as numerous television series.

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