About The Exchange Girl

The Exchange Girl is a new documentary short about women working in highly dangerous conditions in silent film post-production. Those positions did provide women with an entry point to film work, but those jobs suddenly disappeared with the coming of sound. This film explores why. The film also explores how Margaret Booth one of the great editors, started her legendary, Oscar winning career that way career that way.

I'm a filmmaker and college professor in Los Angeles, and this film is based on my PhD research at Berkeley and my book out with Routledge.

I also worked in NYC indie film during the transition from analog to digital technology. This was far lethal times as careers and not lives were list. Please click this link for a recent article in Deadline on the short film or please read below.

So far,:

Winner of the Best Documentary at The Glendale International Film Festival and

Winner of the Best Short Documentary Award at the City of Angel’s Women’s Film Festival
Winner of the Best Short Documentary Award at the Oxford International Film Festival

Selected by:

American Documentary and Animation Film Festival And Film Fund (AmDocs)

Brooklyn Film Festival

City of Angel’s Women’s Film Fest

DaVinci Film Festival

Frozen River Film Festival

Glendale International Film Festival

Golden Gate International Film Festival

Idlewild Film Festival

Indie Street Film Festival

LA Independent Women Film Awards

NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival