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Lisanne Sartor

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Writer
  • Director
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Lisanne Sartor
Lisanne Sartor is an award-winning writer/director whose short film "Six Letter Word" has screened at over fifty film festivals worldwide, including the Telluride Film Festival and the American Pavilion at Cannes (www.sixletterword.org). She made "Six Letter Word" via the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Her feature script of "Six Letter Word" made it to the second round of the Sundance Screenwriters lab twice. Because of that script, she was also a finalist in the 2015 Hedgebrook Screenwriting Lab and received a Hedgebrook residency for 2016. She will direct the feature, "Six Letter Word" in 2017 with Tani Cohen producing. Her most recent short is "Prick" and she will shoot her short "Heimlich," based on the short story by M.C. Moore, in spring of 2016.

After graduating Yale, Lisanne moved to Los Angeles to become a writer/director. She was waylaid when she was admitted to the DGA Assistant Director Training Program. She left ADing after seven years to get an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, where she won numerous screenwriting awards, including the Samuel Goldwyn. Her original screenplay, "Cleaverville" was produced by Alexander/Enright Productions and aired on Lifetime. She's written an MOW for the DeAngelis Group in Italy, had a script optioned by Hearst Entertainment, and developed projects with Roth-Arnold Productions and other companies. She's a UCLA screenwriting instructor and Board President of the CineStory Foundation, a screenwriting nonprofit dedicated to nurturing new screenwriting talent through writers retreats and fellowships.
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    • 1 nomination

Known for

Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rene Russo in Outbreak (1995)
Outbreak
6.6
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director(second unit)
  • 1995
Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, and Ice Cube in Anaconda (1997)
Anaconda
4.8
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director
  • 1997
Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans in The Last Boy Scout (1991)
The Last Boy Scout
7.0
  • Additional Crew
  • 1991
Six Letter Word (2012)
Six Letter Word
8.0
Short
  • Writer
  • 2012

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Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, and Ice Cube in Anaconda (1997)
    Anaconda
    • second second assistant director
    • 1997
  • Ernest Borgnine, Jonathan Silverman, Ming-Na Wen, Olivia d'Abo, Shawn Michael Howard, and Joey Slotnick in The Single Guy (1995)
    The Single Guy
    • second second assistant director
    • TV Series
    • 1995–1996
  • Ele Keats, Neal McDonough, and Paul Winfield in White Dwarf (1995)
    White Dwarf
    • second assistant director
    • TV Movie
    • 1995
  • Bye Bye Love (1995)
    Bye Bye Love
    • second second assistant director
    • 1995
  • Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rene Russo in Outbreak (1995)
    Outbreak
    • second assistant director: second unit
    • 1995
  • Get Smart (1995)
    Get Smart
    • second assistant director
    • TV Series
    • 1995
  • Mixed Nuts (1994)
    Mixed Nuts
    • additional second second assistant director
    • 1994
  • Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia in When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
    When a Man Loves a Woman
    • dga trainee
    • 1994
  • Nick Nolte and Whittni Wright in I'll Do Anything (1994)
    I'll Do Anything
    • dga trainee
    • 1994
  • Erika Eleniak, Dabney Coleman, Cloris Leachman, Jim Varney, Lily Tomlin, and Diedrich Bader in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
    The Beverly Hillbillies
    • dga trainee
    • 1993
  • Cary Elwes in Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
    Robin Hood: Men in Tights
    • dga trainee: dayplayer (uncredited)
    • 1993
  • Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus (1993)
    Hocus Pocus
    • dga trainee
    • 1993
  • Darkness Before Dawn (1993)
    Darkness Before Dawn
    • dga trainee (uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 1993
  • On the Air (1992)
    On the Air
    • dga trainee
    • TV Series
    • 1992
  • Richard Dean Anderson in MacGyver (1985)
    MacGyver
    • dga trainee (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 1991–1992

Writer

  • Heimlich (2018)
    Heimlich
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Prick (2015)
    Prick
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Six Letter Word (2012)
    Six Letter Word
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Cleaverville (2007)
    Cleaverville
    • Writer
    • TV Movie
    • 2007

Director

  • Heimlich (2018)
    Heimlich
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Prick (2015)
    Prick
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Six Letter Word (2012)
    Six Letter Word
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2012
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