Lucy Mulloy is a screenwriter and film director from New York. She has been nomitated for the Student Academy Award. In 2010 Mulloy was awarded the Tribeca Film Festival Emerging Narrative Talent Award and in 2012 was awarded the Tribeca Film Festival Best Director Award.

Early life[link]

Mulloy studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University and Film at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.^[1] She is the daughter of acclaimed animator Phil Mulloy.

Biography[link]

Her first year short film, while studying at Tisch, This Morning received a Student Academy Award Nomination.^[1]

Mulloy spent years in Havana researching for her first feature Una Noche.

Whilst in Cuba Mulloy's story developed as she searched for young untrained talent to take the lead roles. In April 2010, with Una Noche in production, Mulloy was awarded the Creative Promise Emerging Narrative Award at Tribeca Film Festival.^[2] Mulloy is mentored by Spike Lee and in January 2010 won the Spike Lee Production Grant Award for Una Noche.^[3] Winner 2010 Adrienne Shelly Foundation /IFP Directors grant, Winner 2011 Euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers’ ‘Live The Dream’ post production grant at the Gotham Film Awards.

Una Noche premiered at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival. It went on to scoop the majority of awards at its US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Cinametography.

The film was met with huge critical aclaim:

"It's safe to say that Lucy Mulloy was born to make films."^[4] Indie Wire

Awards[link]

2005 Student Academy Award Nomination^[5] for Best Documentary Film This Morning

2010 Tribeca Film Festival Emerging Narrative Award Una Noche

2011 Gotham Award Spotlight Award For Women Filmmakers Una Noche

2012 Tribeca Film Festival Best Director of a Feature Film Award Una Noche

Filmography[link]

As Writer/Director/Producer[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Variety - Tribeca Kudos to Emerging Talent Winner Lucy Mulloy
• Lucy Mulloy on the IFP Lab experience
• Lucy Mulloy's Una Noche on IFP Indiewire
• Filmmaker Magazine IFP Lab
• A life changing night in Havana Una Noche by Lucy Mulloy
• UNA NOCHE website
• Lucy Mulloy on IMDB

Shailene Woodley
Woodley at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 10, 2011
Born	Shailene Diann Woodley (1991-11-15) November 15, 1991 (age 20) Simi Valley, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present

Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. Woodley is known for portraying Amy Juergens in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager and for co-starring alongside George Clooney in the critically acclaimed 2011 film The Descendants. For her performance in The Descendants she won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe.

Early life[link]

Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California. Her mother, Lori (née Victor), is a middle school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, is a school principal.^[1][2] She has a younger brother, Tanner.^[3] When she was 15 and a freshman, her parents divorced and she was also diagnosed with scoliosis. She was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to straighten her spine.^[4]

Acting career[link]

In 2002, she appeared in small television roles on Without a Trace and The District. In 2005, she was nominated for a Young Artist Award (YAA) in the Category: Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special—Leading Young Actress for her role in A Place Called Home as California Ford.^[5] She also originally played Kaitlin Cooper in The O.C. She appeared as Felicity Merriman in Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, for which she received a Young Artists award nomination in the Category: Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special (Comedy or Drama). This is one of two TV specials that Woodley appeared in with John Schneider. She appeared on Crossing Jordan as a young Jordan, as well as other television series including, Everybody Loves Raymond, My Name is Earl, CSI: NY, and Close to Home. In 2007, Woodley appeared in Cold Case as Sarah Gunden, the murder victim's younger Amish sister, who originally brought the case to the investigators' attention. Woodley stars in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Amy Juergens, a 15 year old who discovers she is pregnant. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends and herself as well as life at Ulysses S. Grant High School in California.

Woodley also appeared in the 2011 music video for "Our Deal" by Indie Rock band Best Coast, directed by Drew Barrymore.

In 2011 Woodley made her feature film debut in a breakout performance in The Descendants, for which she received critical acclaim and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and more than a dozen other awards.^[6] She also won the Independent Spirit Award. In this film, she starred alongside George Clooney as Alexandra King, the troubled daughter of Clooney's character.^[7] People named her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age.^[8]

Filmography[link]

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Shailene Woodley at the Internet Movie Database
• Shailene Woodley: Biography, Latest News & Videos at TV Guide