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Sigal Erez is an actress, screenwriter, and film producer born to a Moroccan/Jewish family. She best known for her starring role as Miranda in the 2000 American film Across the Line .
Sigal Erez was born into a Moroccan/Jewish family. As her father was a merchant marine, Sigal was exposed to life and cultures in various countries, from Chile to Israel. She comes from an international family, in which 4 languages are spoken. Sigal moved to the United States on her own to enroll in and complete the Lee Strasberg full program in New York. Her ability to write, act, and direct was quickly recognized. She was later accepted to a master's program in screenwriting at UCLA's acclaimed Writer's Program. She thinks outside of the box, and has always been ahead of her time. In 2000, Sigal wrote, co-produced, and played the lead role in the Boarder-Thriller American film Across the Line .
Across the Line went on to win the Silver Award at the Worldfest Houston, and opened the Latin Film Festival in San Diego, California. Sigal played an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, who was ultimately portrayed as a hero and protagonist. While people loved the story, they were not in favor of portraying an illegal immigrant as the protagonist. However, Sigal insisted, and in 2020, Across the Line is available on multiple platforms and has been viewed by over 5 million people.
Sigal also worked as a television writer and created 13 episodes for a TV drama called "Hotel San Miguel" for Televisa, under renowned writer and show runner, Sabina Berman.
Her screenplay "The Battle of Evermore", co-written with Martin Spottl, advanced to the semi-finals at the prestigious Nichol's Fellowship. Sigal was hired to write creative proposals that led to successful ventures. Sigal has also worked as a ghost writer for various, accomplished figures.
Sigal's Films and scripts have won numerous awards. Her most recent film "Whats Your Number" has been screened at over 20 festivals and has won many awards, including at South Film Arts Festival, finalist at the Nazareth Film Festival, Semi-finalist in the Los Angeles Cinefest, Social Impact Award at the Marina Del Rey Film Festival, and Best Movie at the Anthem Libertarian Film Festival.
Sigal's new TV Pilot made it to the top 100 in the Launch Pad competition Launch Pad. Sigal is currently in pre-production for her Film Serial Beauty, under her production company "High Water Films". In September 2020, Sigla wrote and directed two music videos for Mrs. Judith Withmore. Sigal is a writer with materials in all genres. She truly believes that the visual media of story-telling is the ultimate tool for breaking assumptions, opening minds, and sharing unique stories with a real impact.
Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce and star in a long-running hit when she premiered her serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs. Her career achievements included winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, both for Best Lead Actress.
Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Ayako Fujitani is a Japanese writer and actress. She is fluent in English and Japanese.
Dorothy Allison is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Susan Swan is a Canadian author. Born in Midland, Ontario, she studied at McGill University. Her list of works includes The Western Light (2012), What Casanova Told Me (2004), and The Wives of Bath (1993). Swan's latest novel is The Dead Celebrities Club (2019). The Globe and Mail called it a timely tale of greed and corruption, worthy of the age. The Wives of Bath was made into the film Lost and Delirious in 2001, starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, and Mischa Barton. The film was listed in the official selection in the Sundance Film Festival. Her first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, about a Canadian giantess who exhibited with PT Barnum is being made into a television series.
Susanna "Susan" Kohner is an American former actress who worked in film and television. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in Imitation of Life (1959), for which she was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award. She played a light-skinned black woman who "passed" for white as a child and young adult.
Babel is a 2006 psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Arriaga's and Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, following Amores perros and 21 Grams. It is an international co-production among companies based in the United States, Mexico and France. The film portrays multiple stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico and the United States.
Diana Lynn Ossana is an American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd. She won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Writers' Guild of America Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for her screenplay of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, along with McMurtry and adapted from the short story of the same name by Annie Proulx. She is a published author in her own right of several short stories and essays.
Reyna Grande is a Mexican author living in the United States.
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her Licence ès Lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics.
Linda Woolverton is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals. She is the first woman to have written an animated feature for Disney, Beauty and the Beast, which is also the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. She also co-wrote the screenplay of The Lion King, and adapted her own Beauty and the Beast screenplay into the book of the Broadway adaptation of the film, for which she received a Tony Award nomination and won an Olivier Award.
Gloria Calderón Kellett is an American writer and actress. Kellett is the co-showrunner of One Day at a Time.
Courtney Hunt is an American director and screenwriter. Her debut feature film, Frozen River, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Libby Fischer Hellmann is an American crime fiction writer who currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Most of her novels and stories are set in Chicago; the Chicago Sun-Times notes that she "grew up in Washington, D.C., but she has embraced her adopted home of Chicago with the passion of a convert."
Across the Line is a 2000 American drama film directed by Martin Spottl and starring Brad Johnson and Sigal Erez. Johnson plays a small-town Texas sheriff who falls for an illegal immigrant (Erez) who witnessed a murder on the Mexican border. While not an overtly political film, Across the Line portrays illegal immigrants in a generally positive light and dramatizes their motivations and problems from a sympathetic point of view. In La Opinion Jean Rodriguez Flores wrote, "The film Across the Line isn't just about the difficulties of crossing illegally into the United States, but it also reflects the tragedy of hundreds of people who are forced to leave their families for the "promised land." Some critics praised the film for its emotional intensity, authenticity, and integrity, but others questioned it for turning the plight of illegal immigrants into mainstream entertainment. Independently financed and produced, Across the Line was distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment.
Malavika Avinash is an Indian actress, television personality and politician who is the current State spokesperson for Bharatiya Janata Party of Karnataka. She is known for her work in Kannada and Tamil films. She hosted Baduku Jataka Bandi, a television show that aired on Zee Kannada. She is in the ensemble cast in the Kannada movie K.G.F: Chapter 1.
Return to Hansala is a 2008 Spanish film directed by Chus Gutiérrez. It won the Golden Pyramid Award at the 32nd Cairo International Film Festival and was also screened at the 2008 Dubai International Film Festival.
Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin is a Palestinian film director and producer living in Jaffa, Israel.
Zohra Al Fassiya was a Moroccan singer and poet. Considered as the queen of the melhoun and gharnati genres, and one of the pioneers of modern Arabic music, she was the first female recording artist in Morocco, and her songs were widely celebrated throughout Morocco and Algeria, where she collaborated with lyricists and musicians from Oran and Tlemcen. Although her songs were mostly secular in nature, many of the melodies have later been modified to be fit religious Jewish liturgical songs as well.
Sigal Bujman is a filmmaker who co-created the original travel series Fantastic Festivals of the World (2003-2010). Fantastic Festivals of the World was broadcast internationally on the Travel Channel and Discovery Network. Sigal writes, directs and produces documentaries since 2000. She partnered with Marc Pingry in 2002. Their work is published on PBS, National Geographic and Discovery Channels.
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