Shereen Noon
Shereen Noon is an independent filmmaker who is of Swedish and Pakistani decent. She grew up in Illinois, Michigan, and Pakistan. She is the founder of Santa Fe's Tano Media Institute, an educational program that guides and supports women filmmakers and the International Women Filmmaker’s Organization (IWF) which is based in L.A. Noon attended CSULB and began her work on films in 1993.
She wrote, directed, and co-produced Body: The Value of Women, a documentary on body image and self-esteem of women in America. She also produced the indie film Paper, Rock, Scissors about a man who leads a very successful life but is depressed. She is in the process of writing a script on the relationships between women.
The website to Body: The Value of Women was down so I wasn’t able to view any clips for the film. Hopefully it will be up later. http://www.thevalueofwomen.com/
It was harder than I thought it would be to find “Women of Color” filmmakers. Noon’s films are shown at festivals and screenings, but as much as I looked, unable to be purchased by the normal consumer. I found out about Shereen Noon at the website http://www.whirledwydeweb.com/iwf/shereennoon.html and at http://imdb.com. I did look at the top 25 list at the website for the magazine Filmmakers and was surprised of how few women filmmakers there were.