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Susanna Fogel was born on 8 October 1980 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Booksmart (2019), The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) and The Flight Attendant (2020).- Art Department
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Jennifer Yuh Nelson was born on 7 May 1972 in South Korea. She is a director, known for Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Love, Death & Robots (2019) and The Darkest Minds (2018).- Director
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Desiree Akhavan was born on 27 December 1984 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a director and actress, known for Appropriate Behavior (2014), The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) and The Bisexual (2018).- Director
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Over the course of an accomplished creative career, Olympian turned Writer-Director Gigi Gaston has optioned many screenplays to Miramax, New Line, Universal, and Fox, directed music videos, features and an award winning Sundance documentary and managed musicians on labels including Sony, RCA, Warner Brothers, Wind-Up and RYKO. Recently returned to screenwriting full time after successful runs in each of those artistic pursuits, as of summer 2018 she is at work on multiple projects in various stages of development, including Fly Girls, a limited series set in the world of female WWII pilots with Executive Producer Tommy Thompson.
A native of Greenwich Connecticut and lifelong storyteller, Gaston began pursuing Olympic Equestrian Show Jumping at 11, and became the youngest rider ever to win an Olympic Competition when she took top honors at the Washington International Horse Show. Continuing to ride competitively, she also began to write and optioned her first script, Like a Lady, to Weinstein and Drew Barrymore. Additional script sales and options followed, including Mockingbird, an action-sci-fi-love story based on the award-winning Walter Tevis novel of the same name to Mary Parent and Steve Tisch, an historical drama Madame Lepescue, which Universal purchased for director Ron Howard in a high six-figure deal, as well as Adaptive Ultimate for Leonard Goldberg, Strays for Sid Sheinberg, and Unreliably Yours to Garry Marshal, and Island of the Blue Dolphin for Universal Family.
Gaston made her directorial debut shortly thereafter with Sundance Channel documentary, The Cream Will Rise, showcasing the elusive, Grammy nominated singer/songwriter, Sophie B.Hawkins to rave reviews. Since that time she has directed countless music videos (including Olivia Newton John's hyped 2001 reprisal of I Honestly Love You), as well as the action-heist Rip It Off, starring Nastassia Kinski, Alyson Hannigan and Jennifer Esposito, produced by Tucker Tooley.
In 2013, she wrote and directed the hit musical play, Room 105: The Highs and Lows of Janis Joplin, which starred Sophie B. Hawkins in the title role and was held over for an extended run in Los Angeles. Critics hailed it as "enlightening," "an absolute must-see," and "impressively written and directed," bestowing writer/director Gaston "kudos for going deep." Gaston spent the next few years developing stage projects on both coasts with colleagues including Tony Award Winning Artist Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers and Hairspray), famed Broadway Producer Jed Bernstein and Tony/Emmy/Drama Desk Award Winning actress Kristin Chenoweth before returning to screenwriting in 2015, scripting a comedy adaptation of Mike Shroposhire's novel The Pro for Bumbershoot Productions. She has also completed the heartbreaking love story drama Alone Together: The Life of Teddy and J. Paul Getty.
In addition to Fly Girls, Gaston just completed The Libby Holeman Story, a diverse female project of famed singer Libby Holeman torn between the richest man in America and the richest female. She also developing a female vigilante movie, The Mark of the Eagle, as well as in development to direct Dixie Silver, an action packed female stripper on the run, that she plans to direct.- Director
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Jennifer Liao most recently directed 2 episodes of FROM, a new contemporary sci-fi horror series produced by Epix, MGM, Midnight Radio, and AGBO. Her other directorial credits include "Imposter" for The CW anthology series Two Sentence Horror Stories and Lifetime's first Asian-American holiday movie, A Sugar & Spice Holiday, for which she received a DGC Award nomination. Jennifer made her feature directorial debut with the supernatural dark comedy End of Days, Inc., and also directed the thriller Grandma Dearest a.k.a. Deranged Granny, starring Wendie Malick and Amanda Righetti, which premiered on Lifetime. Jennifer previously directed and wrote multiple episodes of the Canadian TV crime drama Blood and Water, nominated for Best Drama at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. She also produced the feature film Sex After Kids, wrote for the social media storytelling project Crushing It! A Social Media Love Story, and is an alum of TIFF Writers' Studio.- Director
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Originally from California and raised in Europe, Caryn Waechter is a director and photographer based in New York City and Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA film program where she concentrated in Directing. Once a classically trained dancer, Caryn compares her film work to choreography of images. Her CU thesis film GOD IS GOOD has garnered a number of awards including the New Line Cinema Award for Best Director, Columbia University Faculty Selects, Kodak Film Grant, Narrative Short Finalist at the IFP Market and Top Prize at the Chinese-American Film Festival. Caryn is also a main contributor to Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald's YouTube documentary LIFE IN A DAY, where her footage on one specific day was picked from 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Her directorial debut feature film THE SISTERHOOD OF NIGHT premiered at the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival where she won Best Female Director Award from Tangerine Entertainment.- Actress
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Nadine Crocker is a Director, Writer, Actress, and Producer. Her latest film, Desperation Road, was released worldwide in 2023. It stars Mel Gibson, Garrett Hedlund, Willa Fitzgerald, Ryan Hurst, and Woody McClain. The film was produced by Nadine Crocker and Cassian Elwes and was released by Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment.
Her award-winning feature film "Continue" will be released in theaters in September 2024 for Suicide Prevention Month. Crocker Wrote, Directed, and Produced. Alongside her producing partner, Jay Seals, and Husband, Anthony Caravella-Crocker. "Continue" is based on Crocker's life and the true story of surviving a suicide attempt when she was 23. The film's message is focused on suicide prevention with the hope of saving lives from suicide. Part of the film's proceeds will go to charity for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. Crocker has created her nonprofit, "Continue On," which she started to coincide with the film. Rachel Bilson, Olivia Allen, and Lea Griffin joined the board to support Nadine and create impact and change. The Continue On Organization will continue to elevate mental health and suicide prevention stories on our way to our highest goal of creating a subsidy to pay for mental health services for underprivileged youth.
Continue also stars Shiloh Fernandez, Emily Deschanel, Lio Tipton, Kat Foster, Anthony Caravella, and Jay Seals. Continue has screened at several film festivals, the most recent being Mammoth Film Festival. Continue, and Crocker was nominated in every category at the Festival, with 8 total nominations. Crocker won "Best Director" and "Best Achievement In First Time Filmmaking." The film has taken home awards at nearly every festival it has attended, previously winning Grand Jury "Best Feature Film," and Crocker won "Best Actress" at the Beverly Hills Film Festival. It currently has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
You also may have seen her as Scorcher on CW's "Supergirl". Or as Juliet in "Rodeo & Juliet" on Netflix, or possibly scaring the shit out of people with her flesh falling off as Marcy in Eli Roth's 2016 remake of his original film "Cabin Fever". She is a talented actress with a chameleon-like ability to shape her character and bring it up off the page and into your memory forever.
Nadine Crocker was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised in Fresno, California. Knowing she was destined for more than an ordinary life, Nadine dropped everything and moved to Los Angeles, California, on her own at 16. Her greatest desire is to create IMPACT and change the world through storytelling and art.- Director
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Courtney Paige is an award winning actress, writer and director born on August 5th in Kelowna, BC. Canada. She fell in love with performing at a young age and became a member of the Kelowna Community Theatre Company when she was eleven. Paige made her breakout performance as Annika on E! Entertainment's, The Arrangement and guest starred in the CW Lost Boys pilot for Warner Brothers, directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Courtney's five time Leo nominated, feature length directorial debut, The Color Rose, now known as The Sinners, was acquired by Arclight Films and Untitled Entertainment. Courtney wrote, directed and produced Chapel, a crime thriller starring Jeremy Sumpter and Lochlyn Munro. She has two upcoming feature films at the packaging stage. Paige has been featured in the Cannes market, Hollywood Life, Galore Magazine, Screen Daily and the Vancouver Sun. She is listed as one of the most influential young entrepreneurs in The New York Journal and is on the panel of jurors for Diversity in Cannes, Holly Short's, LAFA and other festivals. She is one of the founders and CEO of Yeehaw Films, a production company slated for pictures with Wagner Entertainment, Buffalo 8 and Wonderfilm. Paige's company was featured in Yahoo finance, bringing safer film finance opportunities to the film industry. Courtney owns an acting school and podcast platform with two partners called Cinema Sports Club. She aims to be an advocate for female filmmakers and has a solid foundation of training with Leonardo Dicaprio's acting coach, Larry Moss and a therapist who gave her a better understanding of psychology, Larry Shaw. Paige is a master with human behavior and brings a method acting, actor's director approach to her artistry. She understands all actors work differently and aims to help actors pull their deepest and most organic performances. Paige aims to leave a legacy on a global level for change amongst artists, capitalism and corruption to society. Shedding light on taboo and thought provoking subject matter.- Actress
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Born two months premature at four pounds, Kate Noelle Holmes made her first appearance on December 18, 1978, in Toledo, Ohio. She is the daughter of Kathleen Ann (Craft), a philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr., a lawyer. She is of German, Irish, and English ancestry. Her parents have said that her strong-willed personality is probably due to her early birth. Being the youngest in the Holmes clan, completing the family of three other sisters and one brother, Katie was always the baby.
As a teenager, she began attending modeling school. When she was sixteen, her teacher invited her to go to a modeling competition with other girls from her class. She competed in the International Modeling and Talent Association by singing, dancing, and reciting a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). By the end of that time in New York, Katie won many awards. But she said she didn't want to model because it wasn't challenging enough. So when she was seventeen, Katie went to Los Angeles to audition for movies. Luckily, on her second audition, she was cast in the movie, The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee. Katie's character was Libbets Casey, a rich New Yorker, who is pursued by two of the main characters. It was a small part, but it marked the beginning of her professional acting career.
After the excitement of her first movie, Katie began sending in audition tapes for pilot shows. During that time, she was also starring in her all-girls Catholic high school musical, Damn Yankees, as Lola. After Kevin Williamson received her audition tape for his new show, Dawson's Creek (1998), the producers wanted her to come to Hollywood right away and read live for them. But because they wanted her to come on the opening night for Damn Yankees, Katie had to tell them she couldn't make it. Fortunately, the show's producers wanted her so much for that role, they rescheduled her callback and the result was she got the part as Joey Potter. During her first year with Dawson's Creek (1998), Katie was able to do two movies, Disturbing Behavior (1998) and Go (1999), and, for the former, she won Best Breakthrough Female Performance at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards.
The following year, she starred next to Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys (2000), playing Hannah Green, a published author and a boarder at her teacher's (Douglas) house, who has a crush on him, and tries to seduce him. Her first leading role came in 2002, with Abandon (2002). She played a college student named Katie Burke, who is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her boyfriend who vanished two years prior. With Dawson's Creek (1998) coming to a close after six years in May of 2003, it was a bittersweet moment for all the cast. Accustomed to being in North Carolina filming ten months out of a year, the cast members now had the opportunity to make more movies.
Katie demonstrated this in October, when she had two new movies, Pieces of April (2003) and The Singing Detective (2003), coming out in that month alone. Pieces of April (2003) is a charming Thanksgiving movie about April (Holmes), the black sheep of her family, who wants to give her family the perfect dinner before her mother passes on. The Singing Detective (2003) is a dark musical where the main character (Robert Downey Jr.) was a writer in a hospital for skin conditions who writes a dark world of seduction and murder in his mind. Katie Holmes played the kind Nurse Mills who tends to his every need. She also gets to lip sync and dance in this movie. In 2004, she starred in the romantic movie First Daughter (2004), in which she played the President's (Michael Keaton) daughter, Samantha, who wants to go to college without any Secret Service tagging along. In 2005, Holmes co-starred in Batman Begins (2005), where she played Rachel Dawes, a childhood sweetheart and love interest to Batman/Bruce Wayne.
Katie has a daughter with her ex-husband, Tom Cruise.- Director
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Jessica M. Thompson is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker who won the Audience Award at SXSW for her feature writing-directorial debut, "The Light of the Moon", starring Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, In The Heights). The film enjoyed a limited theatrical release to sold-out screens and heralds a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score. Critics called the film "harrowingly effective" (Variety), "honest and complex" (The Hollywood Reporter), and Film Inquiry remarked that "for any filmmaker, this would be an unmitigated triumph, but for a first-time filmmaker this is revelatory."
Jess went on to helm the Showtime/Sky limited series "The End", produced by the Oscar-winning See-Saw Films (The Power of the Dog, The King's Speech). The series received five-star reviews from The Guardian and The Times.
Her second directorial feature, "The Invitation", a Sony Pictures' gothic-thriller, premiered #1 at the worldwide box office and #2 when later released on Netflix, being streamed over 12 million times in two weeks.
Jess founded Stedfast Productions in 2010.- Director
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Anna Foerster is known for Underworld: Blood Wars (2016), Outlander (2014) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004).