June 15, 2016 by JENDEAN

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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AMAZON

Bite-sized blog post: Anna Rose Holmer

ANNA ROSE HOLMER pitched her movie The Fits (2015) in Venice before it premiered at Sundance in 2015.

She studied film at NYU as an undergraduate and went on to work as a Cinematographer before directing her first film.

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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: Nicole Conn

NICOLE CONN’s film A Perfect Ending (2012) is currently the best selling lesbian themed movie of all time.

Conn has done both narrative fiction and documentary films which includes Little Man (2005), a documentary about her experiences having a son born 100 days premature.

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Bite-sized blog post: Deborah Kaplan

DEBORAH KAPLAN writes regularly with her creative partner Harry Elfton who she met while a student at NYU. Her directorial debut Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and was made with Elfont.

They have gone on to work on other projects together including Josie and the Pussycats (2001) and worked on a script of the famous book “Men are from Mars. Women are From Venus.” which has yet to be made.

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Bite-sized blog post: Veronique Doumbe

VERONIQUE DOUMBE works as an editor and has directed both documentary and narrative fiction. Her company name Ndolo translates to Love in Douala (a language of Cameroon).

One of her documentaries Woman to Woman (2013), she directed with her daughter. The film addresses mother/daughter relationships through interviews with mothers and daughters from various backgrounds in New York City.

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Bite-sized blog post: Diane Bell

DIANE BELL is a yoga teacher as well as a director. Her first feature film Obselidia (2010) premiered at Sundance.

After successfully getting her feature in Sundance and receiving an award for it she started her production company Rebel Heart.

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Bite-sized blog post: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan

BERTHA BAY-SA PAN was born in New Jersey and raised in Taiwan and returned to the US to study at Boston University and get her MFA in Film from Columbia University.

Her first feature film Face (2002) premiered at Sundance. She followed it up with the feature Almost Perfect (2011).

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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: Ann Marie Bryan

ANN MARIE “JADE” BRYAN is the first (and only at the moment) deaf person to graduate from the NYU film production program. She received her BFA and went on to a non-profit DeafVision Filmworks.

She has worked in narrative and documentary and continues to break barriers. Her feature length fiction film If You Could Hear My Own Tune (2011) is about a deaf women looking for love.

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