Wendy Cooper-Porcelli
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Wendy Cooper-Porcelli started as an actress in her hometown of Ohio when she was a child. Upon moving to Los Angeles in the 80's she started film classes at UCLA and started working behind the camera. Her first job was as a casting director with Bob Morones and Oliver Stone on Platoon. She continued to work in casting for years while taking classes at UCLA. She transferred to the then expanding film program at Pitzer College where she graduated in 2000. She entered Claremont Graduate University in the Cultural Studies Department with an emphasis in Ethnographic Film. At this time she also ran the nonprofit, Women's Multimedia Center, which she co-founded, from 1998 until 2003 when she had to give up the reigns in order that she could travel to Nashville, TN to shoot her directorial debut, Dear Mr. Cash. It premiered appropriately at the Nashville Film Festival in 2005. It won awards at the Sarasota Film Festival and the Honolulu Film Festival.
She won the Cubby Broccoli Award for her short film, Matrimorphosis.
She won the Cubby Broccoli Award for her short film, Matrimorphosis.