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- Leslie
Hill
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Representation:
Robinson &
Associates
Tel: (310)
558-4700
Direct:
Tel: (336)
777-0012
Fax: (336) 777-OO93
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DIRECTING
CREDITS
FILM
& TELEVISION
"First
Family" Warner
Bros
Associate Producer -
2nd Unit Director
Feature starring Bob
Newhart & Gilda Radner
"Hypernauts"
ABC
Directed Primetime
Pilot and episode of series
combining youth live
action/science fiction with CGI and
puppetry
"L.A.
Law" NBC
"Silence is Golden"
episode (right before series was cancelled,
alas!)
"The
Secret World of Alex Mack"
NICKELODEON
Popular series about
girl with magical powers and moral
dilemmas;
Live action and
special effects
"God,
The Universe, and Hot Fudge Sundaes"
CBS
Produced and
Directed multi-Award winning
Schoolbreak Special
starring Roxana Zal
(Received an
Emmy, 5 Emmy nominations
and a DGA
Directing Award nomination)
"The
Secret World of Dreams" NBC
Segments of 2-hour
primetime Special, including
dramatizations and
documentary interviews
"Lifestories
with Gabrielle Carteris: Rough Love"
FOX
Directed MTV-style
dramatizations and
segments for Special
on Dating Violence
"Just
For Me" PBS
Drama/Comedy kids
series
"Psychology:
The Study of Human Behavior"
PBS
Produced &
Directed 4 of the series' half-hour
shows;
(Received Series
Emmy )
Reality
Television:
Wrote/Produced/Directed
over 60 segments
of Reality
Television for CBS, NBC, USA,
Discovery Channel
and Syndication, including:
"Rescue
911",
"Missing
Reward"
"Real-Life
Heroes" (pilot)
"World
of Wonder"
"I-Witness
Video"
"Real
Stories of the Highway Patrol"
AWARD-WINNING
DOCUMENTARIES,
YOUTH
FILMS, EDUCATIONAL & DRAMEDY
--
Credits
upon request
INDEPENDENT
FILMS
"The
Tie That Binds"
"Reckoning"
"Hoofin'
It"
"Separating"
"Women's
Work"
SCREENWRITING
Independent
script selected for development
at the Sundance Lab,
"Changes in Latitudes"
Various feature/MOW projects
optioned
or network
developed.
AWARDS
Emmy,
DGA Television Directing Award
Nomination,
and 5 Emmy
Nominations for CBS
"God,
The Universe, and Hot Fudge
Sundaes"
(Producer/Director
1-hour drama starring
Roxana Zal, Millie Perkins & Jere
Burns) Series
Emmy for PBS
"Psychology:
The Study of Human Behavior"
(Producer/Director)
Women
In Film Lillian Gish Award of
Excellence
"Listen
To Me"
(Director, Dramatic
Short)
Emmy Nomination for NBC Documentary
Special
"Mommy
Who?"
(Writer/Producer/Director)
Cine Golden Eagles: Multiple Awards for
various
short films,
including American Film Institute's
"The
Tie That Binds"
starring James
Keach.
First
woman chosen for pilot IATSE-AMPTP
Camera Training
Program in 1975.
Member of
International Cinematographers Local 600
(inactive) with
credits on features such as
"Heaven Can Wait,"
"Looking for Mr. Goodbar," "China
Syndrome," "Richard Pryor Live,"
"American Gigolo,"
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "George
Stevens: American Filmmaker," & "Cat
People"
Filmmaking Grant/Awards from:
Ford
Foundation (film
study in Czechoslovakia),
California State Fellowships,
American Film Institute, Universal
Studios Internship,
DGA Educational and
Benevolent
Foundation, North
Carolina Arts Council.
BIOGRAPHY
I
really love making movies, and I'm always
looking for interesting projects
to direct. I
have a diverse
background in visual storytelling, including
film studies
in the USA (Stanford/UCLA) and
Czechoslovakia, worldwide travel
on assignment, writing/directing/producing &
camerawork,
and pioneering work
as a woman filmmaker in all these areas.
I'm well-read,
well-traveled and
well-rounded, and love the leadership
and process of
making movies. I've frequently worked with
kids
and non-actors,
coaxing successful performances from
both. I have
a good eye for visualizing
material, and enjoy the collaboration
of moviemaking. Most
important, I feel, is fulfilling the story.
Mentored early in my career by Editor/Executive
Verna Fields (I
was invited
to edit independent
films in Verna's home studio)
and
Directors of
Photography William Fraker, John Alonzo
and
John Bailey (among
the first to hire women on their camera
crews), I
spent twenty years working
within the Hollywood system. Since
1988 I've been writing, producing and directing
exclusively.
Active in mainstream DGA work as well as
independent production (including
low budget drama,
educational, PBS, and documentary),
I consider my years
of experience to be an asset to any
production.
P.S. Always on time & on budget!
MEMBERSHIPS
Directors
Guild of America
Writers Guild of
America West
IATSE International
Cinematographers Local 600
Behind the
Lens: An
Association of Professional Camerawomen
(founding
member)
OTHER
INTERESTS
Fluent
French and conversational German
Worked as a horse
trainer on 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
Avid organic
gardener
Chinese culture and
politics....
....and
MOVIES!
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