Lisa Robertson accepted to the AFI Directing Workshop for Women
Lisa Robertson has been selected as one of eight women to participate in the prestigious, American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, 2010, for her short film project, COMMERCE, that she also wrote and will direct in July as part of the program.  

AFI DWW graduates include this year’s DGA award winner (for her direction of MAD MEN) Lesli Linka Glatter, who also received an Oscar nomination for the short film she made as part of the program.  Maya Angelou, Randa Haines and Tricia Brock are also AFI DWW alumni.  The program has been training award-winning directors since 1974.  

For more info on the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, and to meet the 2010 participants, visit:  www.afi.com/education/dww

For more info on Lisa’s film, COMMERCE, visit:  www.commercethemovie.com



Lisa Robertson Studio at the Animo Pat Brown School in South Central Los Angeles, with playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Jose Rivera.
December, 2009: LRS took Act III of Jose Rivera’s, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, to the Animo Pat Brown High School in South Central LA.
Morgan Lariah performed the role of Gabby and Brian Keith Gamble the role of Benito; Lisa directed the 30 minute piece.  The response from the students, aged fifteen to nineteen, was overwhelming, and Lisa emailed Jose Rivera their reaction to the material and performance.

January, 2010:  Playwright, Jose Rivera, generously agreed to participate in a Q and A with the students alongside actors Morgan and Brian.  LRS class member Giovanni Bejarano also performed a monologue from the play.  It was a stunning three hours of dialogue.  Jose has subsequently returned to the school to give writing workshops with the students.

LRS has previously taken scenes to the school from Jesus Hopped the A-Train, Danny and The Deep Blue Sea and Julius Caesar.