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Tracie Laymon(I)

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Catalina Film Festival Award Winner Filmmaker Portraits 2021
Tracie Laymon was selected to be an IFC Icon in this 3 minute short on her and her work.
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Named to IFC's "Icons and Film Innovators", Tracie Laymon is an independent writer and director hailing from Houston and Austin, Texas. Tracie moved to Russia at 14 and attended the American School of Moscow. Back in Houston, she was accepted into the magnet program at Bellaire Foreign Language Academy, focusing on Russian language studies, and later returned to Moscow as a foreign exchange student. At 17, she survived a near-fatal accident and learned to walk again through an extended period of intense rehabilitation.

While studying at the University of Texas, Tracie interned for Richard Linklater's company Detour Film ("Boyhood", "Dazed and Confused"), worked as a photographer and video journalist for Time Warner News, and directed multiple short films and award-winning music videos in the Austin area.

Tracie's directorial projects have won jury awards at SXSW and many other festivals and competitions. She received a grant to make a segment of the women's anthology film "Girls!Girls!Girls!", starring Elaine Hendrix and Octavia Spencer, and won the Jury Award for Short Film of the Year from the Women's Image Network. Her original scripted material has also won multiple awards, including Best Screenplay at the LA Comedy Festival.

Tracie directed the the first half hour series for Hulu "Goodnight Burbank", featuring Dominic Monaghan, which was further acquired by Mark Cuban for HDNet. She also wrote and directed "Mixed Signals", which premiered at Oscar-qualifying LA Shorts in 2018 and won her multiple awards for Best Director in 2018 and 2019 (Women Texas Film Festival, Independent Shorts Awards, and The Method Fest in Beverly Hills.)

Tracie recently directed a comedic and dramatic proof of concept project for Tess Allen's "Matched" and shadowed as observing director on Showtime's "Shameless". She also taught animation for several organizations including Ghetto Film School and live action filmmaking on the Stanford and Berkeley campuses.

Her latest short film "Ghosted" garnered Best Director awards at Big Bear Film Summit, Big Sur Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival and the Hollywood Gold Awards. It also won Best Short Film at Seattle, the audience award for Best Short Film at Big Bear Film Summit, and Best Writer at the Seattle Film Festival.

Given her personal history with her car accident as well as her own gender identity, she is a passionate advocate for the inclusion and representation of both actors with disabilities and gender non-conforming actors on screen.
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Director Tracie Laymon and actors Joseph D. Reitman and Alyssa Suede on the set of Ghosted
Director Tracie Laymon on the set of Ghosted
Set of Tracie Laymon's film Ghosted
Still from Tracie Laymon's film GHOSTED
Still from Tracie Laymon's Film GHOSTED
Director Tracie Laymon and friends celebrate her Best Director Win at Big Bear Film Summit
2021 Catalina Film Festival VIP Party
2021 Catalina Film Festival VIP Party
Director Tracie Laymon and cinematographer Anthony Hardwick on the set of GHOSTED (2020)
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Known for

Ghosted (2020)
Ghosted
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Short
  • Producer(produced by)
  • 2020
Mixed Signals (2018)
Mixed Signals
Short
  • Producer
  • 2018
One Small Step for Neil
  • Producer
    Matched (2020)
    Matched
    TV Movie
    • Director
    • 2020

    Credits

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    Producer

    • Two Joysticks and a Couch
    • Ghosted (2020)
      Ghosted
      • (produced by)
    • Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult (2020)
      Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
    • Edwin Modlin II and Jill Awbrey in All We Have Left (2019)
      All We Have Left
    • Mixed Signals (2018)
      Mixed Signals
    • Jim Meskimen, Lucy Butler, Tracie Laymon, John Rosario, Fernando Camargo, and Taylor Nicolette in Ruby (2017)
      Ruby
    • A Hidden Agender
    • Inside
    • Gwendolyn Hanson in Hostage (2008)
      Hostage
    • Up
    • Worse (2005)
      Worse

    Writer

    • Ghosted (2020)
      Ghosted
    • Mixed Signals (2018)
      Mixed Signals
    • Jim Meskimen, Lucy Butler, Tracie Laymon, John Rosario, Fernando Camargo, and Taylor Nicolette in Ruby (2017)
      Ruby
    • A Hidden Agender
    • Jennifer Ann Henry, Elaine Hendrix, Shana Betz, Octavia Spencer, Barbara Stepansky, French Stewart, America Young, Sarah Maria Newman, Jenn Fee Catalino, Ahna O'Reilly, Lauren Miller Rogen, Quyen Tran, Lena Bubenechik, Nan Tepper, and Barrett Perlman in Girls! Girls! Girls! (2011)
      Girls! Girls! Girls!
    • Goodnight Burbank (2011)
      Goodnight Burbank
      • (uncredited)
    • Inside
    • Up
    • Worse (2005)
      Worse

    Director

    • Ghosted (2020)
      Ghosted
    • Matched (2020)
      Matched
    • Mixed Signals (2018)
      Mixed Signals
    • Mark Radcliffe: Santa Monica Daze
    • A Hidden Agender
    • Jennifer Ann Henry, Elaine Hendrix, Shana Betz, Octavia Spencer, Barbara Stepansky, French Stewart, America Young, Sarah Maria Newman, Jenn Fee Catalino, Ahna O'Reilly, Lauren Miller Rogen, Quyen Tran, Lena Bubenechik, Nan Tepper, and Barrett Perlman in Girls! Girls! Girls! (2011)
      Girls! Girls! Girls!
    • Goodnight Burbank (2011)
      Goodnight Burbank
    • Inside
    • Alyssa Suede: Falling from Mars
    • Up
    • Worse (2005)
      Worse
    • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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    • Other works
      Directed the music video for 54 Seconds' "better?", which received the jury award for Best Music Video at the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in 2004.

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      Broke her back in a car accident as a teenager. After two back surgeries and major muscle atrophy, she had to learn to walk again while in high school in Houston, Texas. She cites this experience as one of both the best and worst experiences of her life as well as the inspiration behind her first production company 'Fractured and Fused Films'.

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