Fawn Yacker

Background

About Fawn Yacker

Fawn Yacker is a Producer/Director and a Director of Photography for film and video. Her cinematography credits include Deadly Deception (Academy Award best short documentary); In the Shadow of the Stars, contributing cinematographer (Academy Award best feature length documentary); Chuck Solomon - Coming of Age ".among the best documentaries dealing with AIDS." Kevin Thomas LA Times. Directing/producing credits include - the ninth cycle of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. She completed, Bedtime Story; a thirty minute film about making choices based on love rather than fear. Yacker's directing credits also include Can You See Me Flying, a documentary about dancer/choreographer Terry Sendgraff, screened on PBS as well as The Learning Channel's Independent Series; A Leap Across the Bar Lines directed for the Women's Philharmonic (winner of the Bronze Apple,1993), a segment for Spark, an arts program produced for PBS and Ugly Ducklings, a one hour documentary about youth suicide and bias based harassment now in distribution to schools nation wide. She has also directed award winning dramatic and comedic programs for corporate education and training. That’s A Family, which Fawn co-directed and co-produced with Academy Award recipient Debra Chasnoff (Deadly Deception), was awarded the Master Cine Golden Eagle in Fawn was also the director of photography on this educational documentary, which is part one of a three part series on diversity created for elementary school distribution and television broadcast. More recent cinematography assignments include Babe, a documentary about Babe Didrikson,(outstanding woman athlete of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s). and Straight Laced, a film about stereotypes - the third in the diversity series with Debra Chasnoff. Fawn recently completed Training Rules, another look at homophobia in sports, for which she was director of photography as well as producer/director/writer with Dee Mosbacher. Specialties: Enjoy working with children. Can direct professional as well as non-professional talent.