Tag / women directors

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Bite-sized blog post: Kathleen Davison

Kathleen Davison

In the midst of post-production for her first film KATHLEEN DAVISON was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She postponed surgery to complete the film.

A graduate of Penn State’s Theatre department Davison moved to Los Angeles and started working on sets in order to learn about making movies. Her feature film Primrose Lane (2015) has garnered her critical acclaim in the festival circuit and she is healthy post-surgery!

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Alumna Kathleen Davison postpones brain tumor surgery to finish her film
Primrose Lane Kickstarter page

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015We Care Dental (TV Movie)
 2015Effloresce (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Amanda Marsalis

Amanda Marsalis

AMANDA MARSALIS’ directorial feature debut Echo Park (2014) was picked up for distribution by Ava Duvernay’s company ARRAY and can be viewed on Netflix.

Marsalis began her career as a photographer studying at California College of Arts and Crafts.

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ARRAY NOW
Ava Duvernay’s Array Acquires Indie Drama ‘Echo Park’

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014 Echo Park

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Bite-sized blog post: Jann Turner

Jann Turner

JANN TURNER studied at Oxford and got her MFA from NYU. She co-wrote and directed her first feature The White Wedding in 2008.

Turner made her American television directing debut in 2012 with The Big C starring Laura Linney.

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AMAZON

HULU

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It’s a Nice Day for Jann Turner’s “White Wedding”
My Normal, Crazy, Mixed-Up Country — South Africa
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2014-2016Jane the Virgin (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Chapter Forty Four (2016)
– Chapter Twenty-Seven (2015)
– Chapter Six (2014)

 2016Grace and Frankie (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Chicken (2016)

 2015-2016Scandal (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Trump Card (2016)
– Paris Is Burning (2015)

 2016The Catch (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Benefactor (2016)

 2015-2016Chicago P.D. (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Forty-Caliber Bread Crumb (2016)
– Get Back to Even (2015)

 2013-2016Chicago Fire (TV Series) (5 episodes)

– Bad for the Soul (2016)
– Chopper (2014)
– When Things Got Rough (2014)
– Tonight’s the Night (2014)
– A Power Move (2013)

 2016Chicago Med (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Saints (2016)

 2015Complications (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Fever (2015)

 2015The Fosters (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Faith, Hope, Love (2015)

 2015Castle (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Hong Kong Hustle (2015)

 2015Scorpion (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Forget Me Nots (2015)

 2013-2014Alpha House (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– The Civility Zone (2014)
– The Rebuttal (2013)

 2014Satisfaction (TV Series) (1 episode)

– …Through Security (2014)

 2014The Divide (TV Series) (1 episode)

– I Can’t Go Back (2014)

 2014Teen Wolf (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Time of Death (2014)

 2013The Neighbors (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Supreme Like Me (2013)

 2013Save Me (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Whatever the Weather (2013)

 2012-2013The Big C (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– You Can’t Take It with You (2013)
– Killjoy (2012)
– How Bazaar (2012)

 2013The Carrie Diaries (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Identity Crisis (2013)

 2013Emily Owens M.D. (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Emily and… The Leap (2013)

 2013Journey Into the Dark Ages (TV Mini-Series documentary) (1 episode)

– Great Women of the Middle Ages (2013)
 2005Hard Copy (TV Series)
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Bite-sized blog post: Bronwen Hughes

Bronwen Hughes

BRONWEN HUGHES is best known for directing for television including for the popular Breaking Bad series.

She also directed the feature film Forces of Nature (1999) starring Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock.

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HULU

AMAZON

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Professional Artists Lab
NPR
Slated
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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Damien (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Number of a Man (2016)

 2015Teen Wolf (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Condition Terminal (2015)

 2015Allegiance (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Blowback (2015)

 2013-2015Motive (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Fallen (2015)
– Against All Odds (2013)
– Creeping Tom (2013)

 2014Stalker (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Manhunt (2014)

 2014The Mysteries of Laura (TV Series) (1 episode)

– The Mystery of the Sex Scandal (2014)

 2014Black Box (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– Free Will (2014)
– Kodachrome (2014)
 2013Over/Under (TV Movie)

 2011Fairly Legal (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Pilot (2011)
 2010Tangled (TV Movie)
 2010Cutthroat (TV Movie)

 2009White Collar (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Pilot (2009)

 2009Royal Pains (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Crazy Love (2009)

 2008Burn Notice (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Bad Blood (2008)

 2008Breaking Bad (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Crazy Handful of Nothin’ (2008)

 2006-2007The L Word (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Lacy Lilting Lyrics (2007)
– Legend in the Making (2007)
– Lobsters (2006)
 2003Stander
 2001Earth Angels (TV Movie)
 1994Amy Grant: Building the House of Love (Video documentary) (video “Lucky One”)

 The Kids in the Hall (TV Series) (3 episodes, 1994) (film segment director – 3 episodes, 1994)

– Episode #5.20 (1994) … (film segment director)
– Episode #5.19 (1994) … (film segment director)
– Episode #5.17 (1994)
– Episode #5.16 (1994)
– Episode #5.15 (1994) … (film segment director)
– Episode #5.18 (1994) … (film segment)
 1990Love Hurts (TV Series)
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Bite-sized blog post: Ali Scher

Ali Scher

ALI SCHER got her MFA from USC after directing theatre as an Undergrad. She won a Student Emmy and won the DGA Jury Award for Best Female Filmmaker.

She went on to create her own webseries Candy Land and her first feature Jessica Darling’s It List produced by Disney is set to come out this year.

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CANDY LAND WEBSERIES

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Filmmakers Spotlight: Ali Scher of “The Maiden and The Princess”
The Maiden and the Princess website
Her Website

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2015Just Jacques (TV Series) (3 episodes)

– Student Election Debate (2015)
– The Duel (2015)
– Basketball (2015)

 2015OMG! (TV Series) (1 episode)

– Just Jacques (2015)

 2012CandyLand: A Web Series (TV Series) (2 episodes)

– The Real Lucy (2012)
– Keep Your Friends Close (2012)
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Bite-sized blog post: Katherine Nolfi

Katherine Nolfi

KATHERINE NOLFI studied film as an Undergraduate at NYU.

She has written several features and co-directed her first feature film Upstate (2010) with director Andrew Luis.

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YOUTUBE

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Talking Upstate, collaboration, and filmmaking with Andrew Luis and Katherine Nolfi from The LAFF
Screenwriters Colony Profile
Indiewire Interview

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2011Mouth Babies (Short)
 2010Upstate (co-director)
 2009Unlimited (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Kate Chaplin

Kate Chaplin

KATE CHAPLIN has directed two features and founded her own production company Karmic Courage.

Ingenue (2013), her first feature can be watched on YouTube. Chaplin has a podcast where she talks movies!

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FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2013Ingénue
 2012Home Security (Short)
 2012Love Dance (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Susanna Fogel

Susanna Fogel

SUSANNA FOGEL’s first feature Life Parnters (2014) was based on a play she co-wrote with her screenwriting partner and friend Joni Lefkowitz.

The film was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and the two of them went on to create Chasing Life, a tv series about a woman battling cancer for ABC.

 

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AMAZON (Streaming)

Magnolia Pictures site links for Life Partners

NETFLIX

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Tribeca Women Directors: Meet Susanna Fogel (Life Partners)
Interview
WGA Article about Chasing Life
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

Chasing Life (TV Series) (1 episode)

– As Long as We Both Shall Live (2015)
 2008Joni & Susanna (TV Series)

 

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Bite-sized blog post: Victoria Mahoney

Victoria Mahoney

VICTORIA MAHONEY began her career as an actress where she first met Ava Duvernay, appearing in a short film directed by Duvernay. Mahoney went on to direct her first feature Yelling to the Sky (2011) which won critical acclaim a the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW.

Mahoney is slated to direct an episode of Duvernay’s television series Queen Sugar.

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AMAZON

NETFLIX

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Indiewire Interview
Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2016Queen Sugar (TV Series) (1 episode) (pre-production)

– Episode #1.5 (2016)
 2014Bleach (TV Movie)

 2013The Conversation (TV Series) (1 episode)

– UK Special (2013) … (2013)
 2013Exhale (TV Series) (2013)
 2013Searching (Short)
 2012Wracked (Short)
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Bite-sized blog post: Valerie Breiman

Valerie Breiman

VALERIE BREIMAN’s film Love & Sex (2000) was based on her relationship with Adam Rifkin, who also wrote a script on the subject of their relationship that didn’t make it to the screen.

Breiman began her career as an actress and started directing with her first feature Going Overboard (1989), an Adam Sandler film.

 

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iTUNES

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An ex-rated tale of love and hate:Valerie Breiman and Adam Rifkin both wrote screenplays of their one-time romance – but it was her gentle touch that made it on to celluloid
Investigating the Opposite Sex: Her 13 Affairs vs. His Three
The Guardian Interview
Wikipedia

FILMOGRAPHY (from imdb):

 2012Overnight