The Archer with Director Valerie Weiss at SXSW

Award-winning Filmmaker and Scientist, Valerie Weiss has directed
three feature films, an American Girl Special for Amazon Studios,
and will be directing upcoming TV episodes of NBC's Chicago Med and
USA's Suits. Her work has been called "daringly light" for the way
it embraces controversial topics in an enchanting way and spans the
genres of action, thriller, drama, sci-fi and comedy.
RogerEbert.com calls her second feature, A LIGHT BENEATH THEIR
FEET, “Emotionally raw and uncommonly observant...By turns
endearing, unsettling, and ultimately moving, [it] is a triumph of
empathetic filmmaking." Valerie’s third feature, THE ARCHER, is a
feminist coming-of-age action film best described as “Thelma and
Louise” meets “First Blood” and premiered at the 2017
SXSW Film Festival. Holding a Ph.D. in X-ray Crystallography from
Harvard University has uniquely enabled Valerie to transform
abstract material into compelling visual stories. Valerie is a
member of the Directors Guild of America, an alumnus of the AFI DWW
Program, a participant in the WeForSheDirectHer Program, the
inaugural Fox Bridge Program and is repped at Gersh and John Bauman
Management. Get an exclusive look inside Valerie’s newest film, The
Archer, in this interview! For more information on Laura Powers and
her work you can go to her website www.laurapowers.net and you can
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