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Fawn Yacker

American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer

Summary

American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer

Fawn Yacker is an American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. She also co-found the LGBT organization "The Last Closet".

About

In 2009, she co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed with director Dee Mosbacher a one-hour documentary film entitled Training Rules, about the controversial women's basketball program ran by Rene Portland at Pennsylvania State University collegiate sports. Fawn Yacker is a founding member of The Nuclear Beauty Parlor.

She co-founded the LGBT organization "The Last Closet", with the goal of ending homophobia in men's professional athletics and providing support.

Yacker is credited on several films directed by Oscar-winner Debra Chasnoff, including: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (1991), It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School (1996), Let's Get Real (2006), It's Still Elementary (2007), and Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up (2009) as a cinematographer, and That's a Family! (2000) as a co-producer.

Filmography

Director

  • 2009: Training Rules - co-director with Dee Mosbacher

Producer

  • 2000: That's a Family! - co-producer with Debra Chasnoff, and Ariella J. Ben-Dov.
  • 2009: Training Rules - co-producer with Dee Mosbacher

Cinematographer

  • 1983: Sippie
  • 1987: Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age
  • 1989: Sacred Passion (V)
  • 1991: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
  • 1993: Sex Is...
  • 1996: It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
  • 2006: Let's Get Real
  • 2005: Waging a Living
  • 2007: It's Still Elementary (V) (aka It's Still Elementary: The Movie and the Movement
  • 2009: Training Rules
  • 2009: Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up

References

References

  1. "Training Rules {{!}}".
  2. Alhlou, Yousur. (2012-10-30). "Supervisors to LGBT Athletes: Step Out of the Closet".
  3. Zeigler, Cyd. (2012-09-18). "The Last Closet launches, aims to open closet doors for gay pro athletes".
  4. Avery, Dan. (2012-09-19). ""The Last Closet" Campaign Tackles Homophobia In Men's Pro Sports".
  5. "Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up".
  6. (2000). "That's a family! [videorecording]". Stanford University.
  7. (2016-04-30). "Gay Identity, New Storytelling and The Media". Springer.
  8. (2001). "Newsletter of Film Arts Foundation, the Bay Area Organization of Independent Film and Videomakers". Film Arts Foundation.
  9. "Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up".
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