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LOIS WEBER
1879-1939

BIO EXCERPT

In 1914, a year in which she helmed 27 movies, Weber co-directed William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1914) with Smalley, who also played Shylock, making her the first woman to direct a feature-length film in the US.

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(Jeanie Macpherson, who would play a major role in cinema as Cecil B. DeMille's favorite screenwriter, also acted in the film).

In the spirit of her evangelism, she began directing, writing and then producing films of social import, dealing with such themes as abortion, alcoholism, birth control, drug addiction and prostitution.

By 1916 she had established herself as the top director at Universal Film Manufacturing (now Universal Studios), the top studio in America at the time, making her the highest-paid director in the world. The following year she formed Lois Weber Productions.

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2020 HONOREE: LOIS WEBER SPIRIT AWARD-WENDY KEELING

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Wendy Keeling is an award-winning actor, artist, director, and producer based in Florida. She began as a theatrical actor at a young age and has been involved with the film industry since 2004.

After working freelance production for several years in Nashville, Tn, Wendy started producing original content with her company 7 Mile Bridge Productions. Her short films have won many awards on the festival circuit. For many years Wendy has been working as a programmer, screener, and juror for film festivals. She is also a Co-Founder and Creative Director of the Loudoun Arts Film Festival in Virginia.

In addition to her work with festivals and behind the camera, Wendy is a talented character actor that can be seen in many films and commercials. Most recently she can be seen in the films Clown College, Don't Run, and Tales from Parts Unknown.



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PAST PARTUM
Directed by WENDY KEELING

Family Thriller Drama

When a 10 year old boy interviews his imprisoned great-grandmother for a school project, he discovers the real reason for his mother's failing health: his baby sister.

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CLOWN COLLEGE
Directed by WENDY KEELING

Horror, Dark Comedy

About a coed overcoming the memories of an overbearing father.

VIDEO MESSAGE FROM LESLIE ANN COLES-2017 RECEIPIENT

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VIDEO MESSAGE from 2018 RECIPIENT-Lorraine Portman-Click Photo

2019 HONOREE-CATHY LEE CRANE
Writer-Director-Producer
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THE MANHATTAN FRONT

Cathy Lee Crane has been making narrative/documentary hybrid films on 16mm since 1994. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for her lyrical re-combinations of archival and staged material.

Her first feature Pasolini's Last Words (2012) was supported through grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film. The film enjoyed its world premiere at the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema as a "gem of world cinema" in the Panorama International section. The film was released on DVD by Salzgeber in late 2014.

Her award-winning short films have been broadcast on European television and are distributed by Canyon Cinema and Lightcone. In addition to her short work in 16mm, she produced the experimental biography Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil (2006) that was funded by an Individual Media Artist Grant from the San Francisco Film Commission in 2001 and is distributed in North America by Films Media Group.

She has collaborated as projection designer and cinematographer for Joanna Haigood, Harun Farocki, and Strom/Carlson and was commissioned by Aurora Picture Show in Houston to premiere her own installation work for the gallery in 2015. Crane received the first North American survey of her work at LA Filmforum in March 2011 while an Artist-in-Residence in the Directing Program at California Institute of the Arts.

She was also invited to screen her complete works at the National Gallery of Art in 2015 as part of the American Originals Now series. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca College.

2016 RECIPIENT-SYLVIA KOVATCHEV

2010 RECIPIENT-RENEE MICHAELS

2006-RECIPIENT-DARLA ENLOW

2005 RECIPIENT-DONNA WHEELER

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