Lisanne Sartor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
- Director
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.
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.
