July 1, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Shola Lynch

SHOLA LYNCH began her documentary career working for Ken Burns and then went on to make the Peabody Award Winning Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004).

When she was very little (from age 2-6) she worked as an actor on Sesame Street.

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WOMEN MAKE MOVIES

VIMEO

Bite-sized blog post: Suju Vijayan

SUJU VIJAYAN has worked as a senior story producer on the infamous series The Bachelor but she has also directed both documentary and fiction television.

Her most recent film The Playback Singer (2013) features Bollywood star Piyush Mishra and was funded in part by a Kickstarter campaign.

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THE PLAYBACK SINGER WEBSITE

Bite-sized blog post: Sanaa Hamri

SANAA HAMRI began her career directing music videos after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She originally hails from Morocco where her father was a painter and author and her American mother was a teacher.

She has directed several popular television series shows and is an Executive Producer on the hit series Empire.

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HULU

Bite-sized blog post: Ami Canaan Mann

AMI CANAAN MANN is the daughter of Michael Mann (the director who made a point of seeking out a woman director to work on his television series Miami Vice and hired Jan Eliasberg to help put the action on the screen). She grew up in Indiana with her mom but has succeeded int he world of Hollywood directing television and making feature films.

Mann began as a writer, writing for TV shows such as NYPD Blue. Her film Jackie & Ryan screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2014.

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Bite-sized blog post: Dennie Gordon

DENNIE GORDON graduated from Yale’s School of Drama in Directing to working in film and television and has directed over forty episodes of television as well as feature film What a Girl Wants (2003) and New York Minute (2004).

She was the first American woman to direct in China with her feature My Lucky Star (2013) which she shot in Hong Kong.

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HULU

Bite-sized blog post: Jerusha Hess

JERUSHA HESS wrote the cult film Napoleon Dynamite (2004) directed by her husband Jared Hess who she met while studying film at Brigham Young University.

She went on to direct the film Austenland (2013) based on the novel by Shannon Hale about the world of Jane Austen fans.

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Bite-sized blog post: Cynthia Mort

CYNTHIA MORT wrote and produced for television sitcoms including Roseanne and Will and Grace before making her directorial debut with Nina (2016), a screenplay she wrote about Nina Simone.

Unfortunately that production was plagued with problems, including a lawsuit filed by Mort against the producers who she felt hijacked the production which took 11 years to get made.

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Bite-sized blog post: Cherien Dabis

CHERIEN DABIS is a Palestinian-American filmmaker who graduated from Columbia with an MFA before making her first Amreeka (2009).

She began her life in politics and has said that she felt she could “reach more people through fiction than politics.”

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Bite-sized blog post: Kirsten Johnson

KIRSTEN JOHNSON is a renowned cinematographer who has won numerous awards for shooting documentaries including for The Oath (2010), Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) and CitizenFour (2014).

She has also directed documentaries including the recent Sundance premiere Cameraperson (2016) which delves into her experiences shooting documentaries.

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CAMERAPERSON SCREENINGS

Bite-sized blog post: Leslye Headland

Leslye Headland directed her first feature Bachelorette (2012) based on the play she wrote with the same name.

She has just been slated to direct her first pilot for ABC.

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