Filmmakers I've Met
These are directors/producers I have met in person. The list is in order of when I met them.
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David Mickey Evans was born on 20 October 1962 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a director and writer, known for The Sandlot (1993), Untitled 'Sandlot' Prequel and Radio Flyer (1992).- Producer
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Francesca Soans is known for Rebirth (2010), Notes Towards a History (2002) and Sons of Jacob Synagogue (2013).- Producer
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Beau Batterson is known for Auction Insider: The John Zimmer Collection (2014), The Last Minute Till Midnight (2020) and Amelia 2.0 (2017). He has been married to Abby Batterson since 20 December 2008.- Director
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Thirty-one years ago, filmmaker Julie Dash broke racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography) Daughters of the Dust. She became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of her feature film. The Library of Congress placed Daughters of the Dust and her UCLA MFA senior thesis Illusions in the National Film Registry. These two films join a select group of American films preserved and protected as national treasures by the Librarian of Congress. Dash recently designed two rooms for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and VOGUE, In American: An Anthology of Fashion, featured at the NYC Met Gala 2022.- Producer
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Alice Elliott is an Academy Award nominated director, a writer, producer, university level teacher, advocate for the disabled, cinematographer, and a member of New Day Films, an educational distribution cooperative. Her short documentary, The Collector of Bedford Street, was nominated for an Academy Award and was the recipient of the Jewish Image Award, the TASH Image Award and more than twelve additional festival honors. The film also received the Henry Hampton Award given by the Council on Foundations. The Collector of Bedford Street aired on HBO/Cinemax and has screened at over 75 film festivals around the world.
Alice Elliott was the director, co-producer, and the principal verite photographer on her latest film, Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, which aired on PBS for National Disability Awareness Month October 2009. The film has screened at over 25 film festivals and won eleven festival awards including Best of Festival at the 2008 Superfest, Best Documentary at Talking Pictures, and the Audience Award from 'The Way We Live' Film Festival in Munich, Germany.
Alice has been producing documentaries for almost twenty years. Her first film, Diamonds in the Rough, is an hour long documentary about a gifted, inner-city high school baseball team located in the largely Dominican, Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Diamonds in the Rough won a Chris Award, a NEMN Apple Award and First Place in the Documentary Category at the South Beach Film Festival. Alice co-produced Grist for the Mill, a personal video diary about the effects of divorce on adult children. Grist for the Mill aired on HBO/Cinemax.
Alice is currently teaching directing The Miracle on 42nd Street, a feature length documentary about the thirty year old innovative housing project called Manhattan Plaza. The towers on 42nd Street provide subsidized housing for performing artists. Alice is a full time faculty member at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and also runs the boutique documentary film company, Welcome Change Productions, in New York City. She is a member of New York Women in Film & Television and has served as secretary and Board Member. Alice is also a member of The Arc of the United States, Sullivan County and Illinois.