Filmmakers Biography

Ann Tweedy is a writer, producer and filmmaker who has been involved in many elements of film production for twelve years.

As a writer, she has written several film scripts, two of which, Consume, Be Silent and Die (co-written with Academy Award winning filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi and Requiem for a Dream) and The Bleeding Hearts Club were optioned for development.

As a producer, she worked for several years with Florentine Films' Larry Hott and Diane Garey creating documentaries such as Revolutionary Roads, a history of the construction of highways in America; Roger Baldwin and the ACLU, both shown nationally on PBS, and 99 Years and 99 Minutes, which featured 99 minute-long interviews with artists, writers, musicians, etc. who expressed their ideas on one year of the past 20th century, shown regionally.

Ms. Tweedy also worked as the production secretary at WGBH's National Productions for several producers working on diverse documentary projects for Frontline, American Experience and Nova.

For feature films, Ms. Tweedy has worked on Dreamworks' SKG's In Dreams, directed by Neil Jordan and filmed on location in western Massachusetts to low-budget independently produced films such as Florentine Films/Hott Productions first feature The Boyhood of John Muir. She has experience in accounting, budgeting, casting, logistics, location and production management, payroll, scheduling, hiring and assembling crews and, last but not least, diplomacy.

Ms. Tweedy has experience as a writer and editor for journals, magazines, newspapers and Web sites. She has worked as Research Editor for Disney Magazine and as a movie reviewer and NFL pundit as the avatar Sherri Ferri, syndicated nationally on Cox Communications' Web sites in major U.S. cities. She has written educational guides on math, literacy, science and history for students K-12 for the Channing L. Bete Company and distributed to school systems nationally. She has also written and directed several episodes for the serial play Manifestations for the Collective: Unconscious Theatre, formerly in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

She is presently working on co-producing a documentary film on King Philip and the early Colonial and Native Nations war in New England.