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Liselle Mei |
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Born
in London, Liselle began her studies in fine arts, photography and modern
languages, winning the Moy Keightley Award for artistic achievement
’90 and the D’Honte Award for languages ‘90. She went
on to learn film making at New York University, graduating with honors
in 1995. Her thesis film, Ana: Portrait in Days won the 1st place Wasserman
Award at NYU’s First Run Film Festival ‘96. The film also
placed 1st in the categories of Directing, Production Management, Cinematography,
Production Design, and Musical Score. It toured the world festival circuit,
won the Empire State Award for Best Experimental Short ‘96 and
a Student Academy Award nomination. Liselle has been working as a fiction writer/director and producer. She has written several original feature length screenplays, and is in development with a digital feature to be shot next year. Her most recent film, The Lower East Side Stories, is a series of four portraits of women living in the Lower East Side of New York City. She is a recipient of the Women In Film Finishing Fund Award 2003 and the Jerome Foundation’s NY Media Arts Award 2003. |
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Born
in Jerusalem, Danae studied film and television at New York University.
She was awarded the Cinematography Achievement Award, graduating with
honors in 1995. Her first documentary Never, Again, Forever about the
Jewish Defense League, explores the characters and lives of Jewish Fundamentalists
in Brooklyn and the Occupied West Bank. The film participated in over
20 international festivals, was broadcast on Austrian TV and won a Golden
Spire Award from the San Francisco Film Festival ‘95 and an Achievement
Award from the Chicago Film Festival ‘95. Since then, Danae has been working full time as a documentary filmmaker. Wild Mint, tells the story of a group of childhood friends in Israel- their experience of growing up under the influence of strong ideology and the first Intifada they oppressed. She wrote, produced and photographed Cut, an Israeli Palestinian production about the lives of a community from Kurdistan, settled in Israel on the grounds of a former Palestinian village. The film was broadcast in Israel and participated in many international festivals and competitions. She received a Cinematography Award from the Jerusalem Film Festival ‘99. She is currently developing a documentary in Guatemala about the consequences of its 30-year brutal civil war. Danae has also worked as a documentary cinematographer in Central and South America, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. She is a recipient of the Eastman Kodak Cinematography Award. |
