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MAUREEN FOLEY

Director, Writer, Producer

Maureen Foley's debut feature film, HOME BEFORE DARK, was named Best American Independent Film at the 1997 Hamptons International Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize. Co-produced by Scout Productions, it appeared at various other festivals including Vancouver, The International Festival of Women's Cinema, and the Nantucket Film Festival.

Hailed by critics as "...Literate, low-key and quietly powerful...," it was acclaimed in Variety, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and numerous other media outlets. In the US, it was exhibited theatrically and has aired on Showtime, Lifetime, and PBS. Its television rights were licensed to over forty countries.

AMERICAN WAKE, Maureen's second feature film, had its world premiere at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Co-produced by small angst films, its foreign rights have been licensed to Horizon Entertainment. Recently, it was chosen by WNET/Thirteen, the flagship New York PBS station, as the launch film for "Reel 13," a new broadcast series on independent film.

Critics have called the film a "small gem," "luminous and authentic," "a love letter to Cambridge." Maureen wrote, produced and directed both films, which have been licensed to Netflix.

She is the author of four other screenplays:
"The Mentor," based on the novel by Sebastian Stuart.
"The Silence in the Garden," based on the novel by William Trevor
"Criminals," based on the novel by Margot Livesey, and
"The Code Breakers," based on the lives and work of John and Elizabeth Friedman, the famous WWII code-breakers.

She also wrote and directed the award-winning corporate documentary, "For The Cure", for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The creation of four PSAs from the film was underwritten by the National Football League, and the spots aired nationally during Super Bowl Week.
Prior to her work in film, Maureen was in the editorial department of The Atlantic Monthly. She also assisted Julia Child in the development of the PBS series "Cooking With Master Chefs." A graduate of Smith College, she has taught at Harvard Business School, Harvard University Extension, Boston University and its affiliated Center for Digital Imaging Arts.

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Alice Dungan Bouvrie brings over 20 years of experience in the film industry to her role as documentary Producer and Director. She holds a Master's Degree in Film Production from Boston University, a Master's Degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, and is a graduate of the DGA Producers Training Program out of New York. She is an active member of the Director's Guild of America, and an active member and former board member of Women in Film & Video/New England. Bouvrie worked as an Assistant Director on feature films, TV series and specials, commercials and industrials for seven years then began producing documentaries as an independent in 1993, forming Mineral King Productions, a video documentary production company based in Arlington, Massachusetts. Mineral King Productions produces broadcast-quality documentary videos with an intercultural emphasis. The organization was created in response to a need for culturally based video projects that would bring depth and immediacy to topical subject matter.
Dungan Bouvrie won the Special Jury Award in the Environmental Category at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1994 for her first film co-produced with Teresa Metcalf entitled, "Living Under the Cloud: Chernobyl Today". Her recent film, "Iditarod... A Far Distant Place" won Best Cinematography at the New England Film Festival 2000, and First Place Audience Award for Documentary at Film Fest New Haven 2000. Recently completed "Prison Pups" (produced in association with WGBH, 2006) is currently traveling the festival circuit. Other films produced include "Am I Home Yet? 5 Au Pairs in Boston" and "William Wyman Artist Potter" both for the educational market. Current works in production include: "Land Sea Sky":Sovereignty and Subsistence in the Alaska Native Community, and "The Girls Next Door": Transgender issues of acceptance and identity.

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