Rachel Lee Goldenberg

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Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Born1984or1985(age 38–39)
Education Ithaca College (BS)
Occupations
  • Director
  • screenwriter

Rachel Lee Goldenberg (born 1984/1985) [1] is an American film director and screenwriter. She has directed a number of feature films and television episodes. She had her breakthrough after she was discovered by Will Ferrell, who gave her the opportunity to direct the Lifetime television film A Deadly Adoption , in which he starred.

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Her 1980s musical film Valley Girl was released in May 2020. She has also directed films made by The Asylum. In addition she directed web shorts for Funny or Die, including the series Lady Time. [2] Her next film, Unpregnant , premiered on September 10, 2020, on HBO Max. [3]

Early life

In 2003, Goldenberg graduated from Algonquin Regional High School in Northboro, Massachusetts. [1] She then attended Ithaca College where she obtained her B.S. in cinema and photography. [4]

Career

After graduating from college, Goldenberg moved to Los Angeles where she worked at the B movie production company The Asylum. She soon was given the opportunity to direct various films. Then she began directing and producing for Funny or Die, a website launched by actor Will Ferrell and screenwriter Adam McKay. As part of her stint at Funny or Die, she served as the White House liaison during the Barack Obama administration. In 2014, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program for producing the Obama episode of the series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis .

Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele became interested in her unusual resume of both comedy and Lifetime movies, and hired her to direct Ferrell and Kristen Wiig in the Lifetime television film A Deadly Adoption . [5]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleDirectorWriter
2020 Valley Girl YesNo
Unpregnant YesYes
2025 Swiped YesYes

Direct-to-video

YearTitleDirectorWriterEditor
2008Sunday School MusicalYesYesYes
2010 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes YesNoYes
2011 Princess and the Pony YesYesYes
2012 Grimm's Snow White YesNoNo

Television

TV movies

TV series

YearTitleEpisode(s)
2014–15 Z Nation "Sisters of Mercy"
"Zombaby!"
2015 The Mindy Project "Stay at Home MILF"
2016 Party Over Here "Suffragettes"
Angie Tribeca "Miso Dead"
"The Coast Is Fear"
Lady Time"Episode #1.104"
"Salute Your Culottes"
"Eggers Can't Be Choosers"
2017 Man Seeking Woman "Futon"
"Pad Thai"
Teachers "Held Back"
"Thirty-One and Done"
I'm Sorry "Pilot"
2019 Divorce "Away Games"
Looking for Alaska "Tell Them I Said Something..."
2020 Everything's Gonna Be Okay "Silkmoths"
"Blue Death-Feigning Beetles"
"Maggots"
"Monarch Butterflies"
2022 Minx "Not like a shvantz right in the face"
"Au revoir, le double dong"
"Norman Mailer, Samantha Shortcake"
"Oh, so you're the sun now? You're the giver of life?"
2023 Tiny Beautiful Things "Pilot"
"Yours Sugar"

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