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Bite-sized blog post: Clea DuVall

CLEA DUVALL began her career as an actress and has appeared in numerous movies and television shows.

Her success as an actress has given her the opportunity to transition into directing and her first feature film The Intervention premieres at Sundance.

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Bite-sized blog post: Sian Heder

SIAN HEDER attended the AFI Directing Workshop for Women where she directed her first short film Mother (2006) which made it into Cannes’ Cinefondation.

After completing that program Heder went on to join the writing team of Men of a Certain Age and Orange is the New Black. She directed another short starring Zachery Quinto, Dog Eat Dog (2012) which she funded with a Kickstarter campaign.Her first feature premieres at Sundance in 2016 with Netflix already in place as a distributor.

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Bite-sized blog post: Kelly Reichardt

KELLY REICHARDT almost missed the debut her first feature film at Sundance, River of Grass (1994) because she couldn’t afford the plane ticket across country and got stuck on a train that took five days instead of three to make the trek.

Many of Reichardt’s films are set and shot in Oregon and she is known for character driven pieces including Wendy and Lucy (2008) starring Michelle Williams who she reunites with for her most recent film Certain Women premiering at Sundance.

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Bite-sized blog post: Elizabeth Wood

ELIZABETH WOOD runs a production company with her husband Gabriel Nussbaum where they directed and produced their first feature, Wade in the Water (2007), a documentary of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Wood has been included in the 2016 Variety list of “10 Directors to Watch” and her first feature narrative film White Girl (2016), Executive Produced by Christine Vachon premieres at Sundance!

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Bite-sized blog post: So Yong Kim

SO YONG KIM is a Korean born director who grew up in Los Angeles. She first delved into filmmaking through producing her husband’s film Salt (2003) and then decided she wanted to write and direct a film of her own film and embarked on her directorial debut with In Between Days (2003) which her husband produced.

Her most recent film For Ellen stars Paul Dano and premieres at Sundance 2016!

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Bite-sized blog post: Meera Menon

Farah Goes Bang premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, where MEERA MENON was awarded the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize for a groundbreaking female filmmaker.

Her next film Equity, touted as the first female-driven Wall Street Movie, stars Anna Gunn (star of Breaking Bad) and premieres at Sundance!

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Bite-sized blog post: Deborah Kampmeier

DEBORAH KAMPMEIER made her first film Virgin (2003) with a budget of only $65,000.00 thanks to digital technology and to actress Robin Wright who agreed to take part in the film despite the lack of a big budget because she loved the script and knew and respected Kampmeier. The film went on to critical acclaim and to receive the accolades of audiences.

Kampmeier’s second film Hounddog (2007) was plagued with controversy due to a rape scene involving the then 12 year old Dakota Fanning. The scene in no way exploited Fanning due to the way in which it was shot but the controversy eclipsed the reality and ignored the horror of the story being told which is a reality for many young girls and focused on the fictional circumstances of the actress playing the scene. Kampmeier teaches acting in NYC and continues to direct.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Phang

San Francisco-based filmmaker born in Berkeley JENNIFER PHANG attended AFI for an MFA and went on to make sci-fi films Half-Life and Advantageous.

Phang is one of six women chosen for the 2015-2016 Women of Sundance Fellowship.

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Bite-sized blog post: Ava DuVernay

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After being told, “African Americans don’t go to indie films so we can’t fund your indie film with an African American cast,” AVA DUVERNAY made Middle of Nowhere (2012) without industry support and it screened at Sundance where she became the first African American woman to win Best Director at the festival. Using her experience as a publicist she formed a distribution company AFFRM to distribute her own films and those of other African American filmmakers.

Her next feature film Selma (2013) was nominated for an Academy Award and she re-branded her distribution company AFFRM to ARRAY to encompass female filmmakers as well as people of color.

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