Lisanne Sartor
Los Angeles, CA
Moving Image
Lisanne Sartor gained early notoriety for:
1) Calling her fourth-grade teacher a female chauvinist for not letting girls play kickball (a clear outrage).
2) Teaching sex-ed seminars to her fifth-grade cohorts using Judy Blum’s FOREVER (how proud were Sartor’s parents? Surprisingly, not very).
3) Calling her eighth-grade teacher a bitch for unfairly penalizing another student (While Sartor’s principal shared her opinion, he told her she should keep such opinions to herself. Lesson not learned).
Sartor’s outspokenness led her to become a Los Angeles DGA assistant director. After seven years, she had a bad back, nerve damage in her feet and a Biblical appreciation for caffeine. She quit to write and direct. Since then, she’s worked with numerous production companies, received a UCLA Screenwriting MFA, and participated in the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, the WGA Feature Writers Access Project and the AFI/Fox Bridge Program. She is an alumna of Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Gullkistan and Storyknife residencies. She’s taught screenwriting at UCLA, Stephens College, the Disney Launchpad Shorts Incubator and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. She has been the Board President for the screenwriting educational non-profit, the CineStory Foundation, since 2009, and a board member since 2004. She’s written thirty + screenplays, penned a Lifetime MOW, and directed five successful short films.
All her projects are drawn from her family history of secrets and lies and her vengeful, loyal nature. She’s never looked back.