femalefilmmakereveryday – Gillian Fritzsche

Short Film — “Carrol Lynn”

Here are production stills from the short film, “Carrol Lynn” on which I served as producer. Writer/Director James Cernero and DP Steven Carmona (who’s worked with me on the LSL Life Docuseries), […]

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Writer, Director, Mother, Superhero?

As a writer, producer, and director — primarily in film/video — I am passionate about telling entertaining and meaningful stories that inspiring positive personal and social change. I have produced […]

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Minimalist Filmmaking: On the making of my short film, Jerry & Diane

So I just wrapped production as a writer-producer-director on another […]

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Building Sustainability… On Location and In Education!

When we shot “The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan […]

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On Being A Better First AD

Back in May, I was the First AD on a series of commercials for Microsoft – specifically, for several computers that sport the new Windows 7 operating system. We shot […]

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Post-production!!

I’m currently working with Jack Maatman on Sonny, the short film I wrote and directed. Principal photography was in July and because my husband and I were moving across the […]

Producing

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher

First and most importantly, you can watch our feature comedy […]

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Sonny: Pete’s Blue Chip

Our second last location was Pete’s Blue Chip on Colorado Blvd in Eagle Rock, CA. They were such awesome people and very cool to work with! It’s an Eagle Rock institution, having been […]

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Sonny: Southern California Edison

If you’re a writer, and you’re writing a short film or a feature and you’re thinking you want to be able to shoot it “on the cheap” then my advice […]

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Principal Photography!

So I’ve been busy at work directing the short film I wrote called SONNY. Principal photography was last week – July 18 thru 23. It was an amazing experience. Quite […]

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New Film, New Way of Filmmaking

Here’s a great press release for our film, The Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher, written by the excellent Hearth Creative team in Tulsa, Oklahoma! New Film, New Way […]