Yvette Edery
- Additional Crew
- Producer
- Writer
Award winning director, producer, actress, Yvette Edery graduated with
a Masters degree from New York University in directing and producing
film and was immediately signed to a 3 year exclusive contract with
Abrams Artists Agency upon graduation, going on to perform puppetry in
13 countries, while performing off Broadway and acting as a production
assistant on almost every major children's television production taking
place in NYC. Yvette soon was asked to teach in the Tisch film school
at NYU and was giving master classes in performance to graduate
students, as well as teaching workshops for Princeton University,
before making her festival debut with Jillian Dillon (2009) which went
on to play at over 100 festivals internationally, winning in Toronto
and Beverly Hills. After Yvette's welcoming to the festival circuit,
culminating with festivals flying her all over the world to teach
puppetry and film workshops after her Q and A, winning awards, she
began production on a featurette which would go on to become a
permanent part of the film archives at the National Holocaust Museum in
Israel, Yad Vashem, The Heart is a Mirror (2010), also a part of the
permanent archives at the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles,
CA.Most recently, the Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center
have both purchased her films for their permanent collections.
Indiewire magazine named her as 1 in 6 female film directors to watch
in Hollywood and she has been slated to direct for Warner Brothers and
has written three feature films she will independently direct, design,
and produce, in the vein of her international hit, Jillian Dillon,
under the title of The Foretoken Collection. Yvette is also a highly
regarded makeup artist.