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Sarah Louise Wilson is a well-rounded
artist. She writes, directs, produces, paints and acts. She received her BFA from CalArts. She has appeared in numerous national
commercials and worked with awarding winning director Heidi Van Lier in her film Monday, which premiered
at the Slamdance festival 2006. Since then with her production company, Stella Bella Productions, which she founded with Mercedes LeAnza,
she penned and starred
in her pseudo-autobiographical romantic comedy Jelly (Starring Natasha Lyonne, Ed McMahon)
which premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival 2010. Jelly also screened at WIFF
and TIFF. The film went on to win four Accolade awards. Jelly is repped by Cinetic
media and has been released on Netflix, Fancast and The Sundance Channel.She wrote and directed the short films Make Love
Stay (Ignacio Serricchio) and Olivia starring Camille Winbush
(The Secret Life of the American Teenager) and Andrew James Alan (The Lovely Bones), which premiered in
this years FRAMELINE festival along with fifteen other festivals including the prestigious Ann Arbor festival 2011. The Accidental Death of Joey by Sue is her feature film directorial debut
starring Steve Talley (American Pie) and Lin Shaye (There's Something About Mary), which she wrote
and directed with her friend Neal Thibedeau. It premiered in NYC at the HBO New York Latino International Film Festival to rave reviews
(“Stylish and strange enough to mark Sarah Louise Wilson and Neal Thibedeau as helmers to watch – Variety).
Recently she directed a
pilot for Hogtown Productions and two music videos for the bands Leopold & and his Fiction (Daniel
James) and Cowboy & Indian (Jesse Plemons, Friday Night Lights). Her
play, Life is a Dream, which was loosely adapted from Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s play Life
is a Dream, was performed at the REDCAT Spring of 2011. As of late she directed her new play Gregor’s
Big Red Balloon with Randall Whittinghill at CalArts November 2011.
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