October 15, 2016October 16, 2016 by JENDEAN

Bite-sized blog post: Christina Kallas

CHRISTINA KALLAS’ feature film 42 Seconds of Happiness (2016) was an immersive experience for the actors, rehearsed for a year and a half and shot in five days. It is now on the festival circuit and will be screened at the Orlando Film Festival this month. She has also been nominated for the Emerging Director Award of the New Filmmakers Forum at this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival.

Kallas teaches at both Columbia and The New School in New York City. She has written several books about the art of screenwriting and film.

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Bite-sized blog post: Dana Nachman

DANA NACHMAN began her career as a journalist and worked on documentaries in the Bay Area for NBC.

Her first feature documentary Witch Hunt (2008) was narrated by Sean Penn and addresses inadequacies in the criminal justice system.

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Bite-sized blog post: Jennifer Siebel Newsom

JENNIFER SIEBEL NEWSOM’s feature directorial debut Miss Representation (2011) tackled representations of women in the media.

Newsom has also worked as an actor in film and television and has a business degree from Stanford. Her second documentary The Mask You Live in (2015) looks at masculinity in American society.

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Bite-sized blog: Jennifer Congdon

JESSICA CONGDON co-directed the documentary Race to Nowhere (2010) with Vicki Abeles. She produced, edited and wrote Miss Representation (2011) and works regularly as an editor.

Congdon studied at UC Berkeley and the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently directing a series on food and travel Places and Plates.

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Bite-sized blog post: Vicki Abeles

VICKI ABELES is an advocate for children and families as well as a filmmaker. Her feature documentary film Beyond Measure is about the American educational system.

Abeles was an associate producer on Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Miss Representation (2010) after directing her first documentary Race to Nowhere (2010) which she has self distributed.

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Bite-sized blog post: Elena Rossini

ELENA ROSSINI directed the documentary feature film The Illusionists (2015) which is “a feature-length documentary about the marketing of unattainable beauty ideals around the world.”

Rossini also started a multimedia project “celebrating the professional lives of women and providing real role models for the younger generations.” NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG WOMEN

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Bite-sized blog post: Patricia Riggen

The DGA makes the claim that Patricia Riggen “may be the only Mexican-born woman directing movies in Hollywood today.” Riggens received her MFA in film from Columbia.

Her first feature film Under the Star Moon (2007) premiered at Sundance.

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Bite-sized blog post: Claudia Myers

CLAUDIA MYERS is an Associate Professor of Film at the American University in Washington D.C. She was on Independent Magazines Ten Filmmakers to watch in 2015.

Her feature film Kettle of Fish (2006) premiered at Tribeca and stars Mathew Modine.

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Bite-sized blog post: Sharon Shattuck

SHARON SHATTUCK is an animator and director. Her feature documentary From This Day Forward (2015) premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

She formed her company Sweet Fern Productions with Flora Lichtman and they co-created the New York Times Doc Series Animated Life.

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Bite-sized blog post: Karen Moncrieff

KAREN MONCFRIEFF, after obtaining her B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University (a much more academic and esoteric pursuit than many may realize – I know from having went to one of the few Performance Studies programs in existence myself), moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career in film.

Her feature directorial debut Blue Car (2002) was distributed by Miramax.

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