Jana Sue Memel
Jana Sue Memel (born 7 March 1955,
Life and career
Jana Sue Memel was born on 7 March 1955 in Los Angeles.[1] She graduated from USC Gould School of Law,[4] but spent only six month in the practice of law, becoming a Hollywood agent.[citation needed] As an agent she specialized in representing first-time writers and directors, but then she moved into the ranks of independent producers.[5]
In 1986 Memel along with a producer Jonathan Sanger founded the Chanticleer Film’s Discovery Program.[6] Chanticleer Films has produced numerous short films for Showtime as well as the full-length “Lush Life”.[7][8] Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987), the very first film produced by Chanticleer, won an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category.[6] Two other nominations in the same category Memel received in 1993 together with Jonathan Darby for film Contact (1992) and in 1994 together Peter Weller for Partners (1993).[2] In 1995 four of the five films nominated in the Live Action Short Film category were Chanticleer Films productions.[6] Year later, in 1996, Memel won her second Academy Award together with Christine Lahti again in the category Live Action Short Film for the love story Lieberman in Love (1995).[2]
Memel produced over 25 movies and over 65 life-action shorts, some of which won Writers Guild and Director Guild Awards, Emmys, CableACE Awards and the Humanitas Prize.[3] In total she has been nominated 11 times for her short films and three of those nominations turned into wins.[9] Memel has also produced numerous television shows.[10] Memel made three films as a film director: action drama Champion (2000), science-fiction comedy Random - Nothing is as it seems (2001) and the documentary short film You Can Do This Parents (2016).
Since 2007 Memel is communications consultant founder of “The Hollywood Way”.[4] She is also Executive Director of the Schools of Entertainment at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.[3]
Memel has three daughters.[4]
Filmography (selected)
Films:[11]
- 1998 Everything That Rises (co-executive producer)
- 1996 Desert's Edge (executive producer)
- 1995 Lieberman in Love (director)
- 1995 Take out the Beast (executive producer)
- 1995 Down Came a Blackbird (executive producer)
- 1995 Contact (executive producer)
- 1994 Partners (executive producer)
- 1994 Two over Easy (executive producer)
- 1994 Texan (executive producer)
- 1994 On Hope (executive producer)
- 1994 Leslie's Folly (executive producer)
- 1994 Override (executive producer)
- 1993 12.01 (executive producer)
- 1993 Lush Life (executive producer)
- 1993 A Hard Rain (executive producer)
- 1993 Witness (executive producer)
- 1993 The Day My Parents Ran Away (executive producer)
- 1993 So I Married an Axe Murderer (co-producer)
- 1992 Without a Pass (executive producer)
- 1989 Teach 109 (producer)
- 1989 Private Debts (producer)
- 1987 Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (producer)
- 1986 Tough Guys (co-producer)
References
- ^ a b "Jana Sue Memel, Born 03/07/1955 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ a b c "Jana Sue Memel". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ a b c d "Motion Pictures & Television Faculty". Academy of Art University. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ a b c d "Jana Memel: HollywoodWay; Marketing Branding Presentations Workshops". The Hollywood Way. 2013-12-01. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ "Jana Sue Memel, Oscar-winning Film Producer". Speakerpedia. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ a b c "Chanticleer Films Discovery and Directed By Shorts Collection". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2015-10-13. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ "What They've Always Wanted to Do Is . . ". Los Angeles Times. 1994-10-02. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
- ^ Lush Life, retrieved 2019-12-14
- ISBN 978-1-4406-2134-5.
- ISBN 978-1-305-95470-0.
- ^ "Jana Sue Memel". BFI. Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
External links
- Jana Sue Memel at IMDb
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