{"id":47,"date":"2020-06-02T01:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T01:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asocialcure.com\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:47:49","slug":"filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asocialcure.com\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"The Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meissa Hampton &#8211; Writer, Director, Producer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meissa_Hampton\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meissa_Hampton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2302275\/\">https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2302275\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-wordpress  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meissa_Hampton\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" 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Apple Film Fest in New York.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her commercial and independent film performances have won \u2018Best Actor\u2019 awards from National and International festivals such as IndieFest, First Run and PictureStart Film Fests in NY and contributed to a ProMax World Gold Award for VH1s&nbsp;<em>Lyrically Speaking<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She is an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and New York Women in Film and Television.&nbsp;&nbsp;She has been an activist for gender equity in Media throughout her career and is the Founder of the&nbsp;<em>Actors Alliance for Gender Equity in Media<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2015 she authored the petition to SAG-AFTRA to promote gender equity in the industry and address sexual harassment and assault affecting performers.&nbsp;&nbsp;She has been interviewed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/jul\/18\/how-casting-couch-culture-endures-in-hollywood\">international publications<\/a>&nbsp;and as a writer for&nbsp;<a 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award for scholastic achievement.&nbsp;&nbsp;She studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory, then continued scene study, voice work and improv at top NYC studios including the Upright Citizens Brigade and HB studios.&nbsp;&nbsp;She continued her Film and Theatre studies at Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.&nbsp;&nbsp;She has expanded from acting and writing to direct her first feature film&nbsp;<em>A Social Cure,&nbsp;<\/em>which investigates the HIV\/AIDS epidemic and our path to a future free from HIV.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NICOLE MICHAELIS \u2013 Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole Michaelis studied film at Yale University and NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts.&nbsp; Since finishing her MFA, she has worked as a writing assistant to Michel Gondry, was head video producer for Nylon Magazine, and wrote and directed original content for independent clients through her production company. 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