Susan Orlean: Author + Staff Writer, The New Yorker
SUSAN ORLEAN is the author of 12 books, including “The Orchid Thief,” which was made into an Academy Award winning movie called “Adaptation,” starring Nicholas Cage, Chris Cooper, and Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean. Orlean is also a longtime staff writer for “The New Yorker” magazine.
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Film Director Maria Giese Leads the Battle for Gender Equality in the Film Industry
In 2015, after four years of activism in the Directors Guild of America, MARIA GIESE became the person who instigated the biggest industry-wide Federal investigation for women directors in Hollywood history. She is now the subject of a feature-length documentary “This Changes Everything,” which includes commentary by Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, and many others.
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