The Smallbiz Brain: Vanessa Vassar

posted by David Wolf on Feb 18, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink | Trackback URL

Vanessa moved to New Mexico in January 2000 and began working on her first documentary AMERICAN WAITRESS. It played at many film festivals, was written up in VARIETY, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER and MARKEE MAGAZINE and sold to The Sundance Channel, Rialto-TV (New Zealand) and The Documentary Channel (Canada and USA). The internet sales have recently been signed to CINETIC MEDIA in New York. AMERICAN WAITRESS is used in many high school and university psychology and sociology curriculums.

Vanessa followed up AMERICAN WAITRESS with an artist profile documentary about an Apache artist entitled DARREN VIGIL GRAY COUNTERCLOCKWISE that she directed for the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and sold to The Sundance Channel. Her most recent documentary CINDERELLAS OF SANTA FE opened the Santa Fe Film Festival in December 2006 and won Best Documentary at the Iowa Independent Film Festival.

Vanessa is currently working on her next documentary NIGHTSHIFT, a documentary to be filmed around the world featuring the subculture of people who work at night.

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