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A native New Yorker, Ellen Sherman took a circuitous path to writing and producing TV and film after an acting career which included Broadway, TV, and the lead in a highly forgettable avant-garde Mexican horror film. She’s worked as a journalist, screenwriter, and documentarian who produced an award-winning feature doc revealing the world of heterosexual crossdressers. She spent nine memorable years at NBC’s “Dateline” producing one-hours primarily about rich, attractive people who kill each other. She’s lived in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and London. Her gloriously misspent youth is the basis for the novel “CHELSEA MANOR STREET: Bad Girls Go Everywhere.”

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Gillian Gordon is an award-winning film/television producer, executive and educator who has worked in Los Angeles, London and Asia. She was a Senior Lecturer and Chair of the MA Producing program at Royal Holloway, University of London for 12 years and spent 3 years in Singapore with Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Active in Hollywood film development, Gordon has also worked as a development executive at Film & General Productions and ITV. She has assumed hands-on responsibility for ground-breaking films, television, TV commercials and music videos as well as producing TV series for the BBC and ITV.

Having spent thirty years in London, she recently moved back to the US where she was the inaugural Executive Director of the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center. Currently she is Executive Producer at Visionaire Media and recently produced “Footsteps on the Wind,” the award-winning animation short dealing with child refugee migration and featuring a song by Sting. She has been commissioned to write a book for Palgrave MacMillan on “Creative Producing”.