Susan Miller, Tina Cesa Ward; Anne Makepeace

Program Title: Endeavours - Women in Film
Description: Susan Miller is an Obie Award-winning playwright, as well as an author, screenwriter, producer and occasional performer. She created the critically-acclaimed one-woman Show "My Left Breast", and is the co-creator, with director Tina Cesa Ward, of the critically-acclaimed and groundbreaking LGBT-themed web series, "Anyone But Me".

Anyone But Me is wrapping up after three seasons in cyberspace. Susan Miller talk about the show's influence as well as working in the web medium.

Anne Makepeace is writer, producer and documentary filmmaker. Her most recent film is "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân", which chronicles the attempts of Jessie Little Doe Baird, a native-american linguist at MIT, to revive the Wampanoag language of her people. It recently had its broadcast debut on the PBS program, Independent Lens. Her previous documentary, about architect I.M. Pei, is now available on DVD.

Makepeace has won numerous awards, including the Best Documentary at Telluride Film Festival for her film "Coming To Light", which was also a finalist the Academy Awards in 2001. Her film "Baby, It's You" won the documentary competition at SXSW Doc festival in 1998. She has twice been a writer/director fellow at the Sundance institute, and served on the documentary jury for the 2011 festival. She lives in the tri-state area

Host(s): Dan McPeake
Featured Speakers/Guests: Susan Miller & Tina Cesa Ward; Anne Makepeace

Credits: written & produced by Dan McPeake

Comments: