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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. |
