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.

We’ve been accepted at 26 festivals and won 4 awards.

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 check below for a recent article in Deadline on the short film.

So far:

Winner of the Best Documentary at The Glendale International Film Festival
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
Winner of the Best Short Documentary Award from Chicago Women Film Fest in partnership with the Chicago Women Film Institute

Selected by:

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

Brooklyn Film Festival

Chicago Women Film Fest

City of Angel’s Women’s Film Fest in partnership with the Chicago Women Film Institute

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