Dana White

Turning Blue Pictures, LLC

BIOGRAPHIE

[EN] Dana, is a writer, director and producer. Her last film, Involuntary, premiered at the 2024 Justice FF. Her multiple award-winning short, Turning Blue, premiered at the 2021 Cleveland International Festival and went on the screen internationally. It won the Jury Award for Best Short at the 2022 NEW YORK INDIE SHORTS AWARDS, was WINNER, 2023 New York Women in Film and Television, Online Shorts Festival presented by iWomanTV - Best Writer of a Drama, and won Best Female Filmmaker at the 2024 The Global Drama Project Film Festival. Her feature, In the Orchard, was the Winner of, Best Feature Film, 2018 Sonoma Int Film Festival, 2018 Culver City Film Festival, and the 2019 Beaufort Int Film Festival where it won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, and Actor. ​ Dana has also worked as a Senior Editor and Feature Producer for various shows for Network television and edited award-winning documentaries including, Finding Kraftland, which premiered at the 2006 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and went on to win awards at the 2007 Santa Fe Film Festival and many others. ​ Dana has an MFA in Creative Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside. She attended LAMDA where she studied Classical Theater and has a BFA from The Boston Conservatory. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at Kent State University where she teaches film and screenwriting. She founded and advises the Female Filmmakers Initiative at Kent State. “We have nothing without our voices and as female artists, it is imperative that our voices matter in the world. The Female Filmmakers Initiative seeks to empower the voices and creative spirits of women around the world.” Dana founded, For the Ages, a community of Writers, Filmmakers, and Scholars who believe in the importance and contributions of our elders to our society. It is our elders who have helped to shape and form our present and future.

FILMOGRAPHIE