Sandy McLeod

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Sandra Ann McLeod (* before 1970 ) is a film producer , film director , documentary filmmaker and former actress .

Career

McLeod's film career began in 1978 when she first appeared in front of the camera and starred in the musical comedy Rockers . In the thriller Fatal Embrace by Jonathan Demme she got the role of Dorothy and so she was seen in front of the camera with Roy Scheider and Christopher Walken . In the thriller Variety , she plays the ambitious author Christin, who sells tickets for porn cinema in Manhattan and pursues her sexual desires during the course of the film. The script was written by the writer Kathy Acker . 1984 in Swing Shift and 1986 Dangerous Friend she was seen in small roles, among other things as an interviewer and secretary.

Sandy McLeod has been behind the camera since 1985 and was responsible for the music videos for Louise Mandrell for the song Some Girls Have All the Luck and for the cover song for British band UB40 and rock singer Chrissie Hynde I Got You Babe . She made her directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Doll Day Afternoon, for which she also wrote the script. Subsequently, she was also responsible for the television film Red Hot and Blue (1990), in which John Malkovich , Bill Irwin , Annie Lennox , Deborah Harry and Jean Paul Gaultier can be seen, also as a director. She has dedicated herself to documentaries since 1988 and has been the producer for Haiti Dreams of Democracy (1988), John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography via John Szarkowski and Seeds of Time (2013).

For her short documentary film Asylum , McLeod received an Oscar nomination in the category " Best Documentary Short Film " at the 2004 Academy Awards . The award went to the director Maryann DeLeo for her contribution Chernobyl Heart

She worked several times with the former US film director Jonathan Demme . As an actress, she stood in front of the camera in Deadly Embrace , Swing Shift and Dangerous Girlfriend for him and as a producer she was responsible for the production design on his works for UB40 and Chrissie Hyndes music video for I Got You Babe , the documentary Haiti Dreams of Democracy Swim to Cambodia (1987).

Sandy McLeod was married to her husband Sam Dryden († 2017), former head of agricultural development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , until his death.

Filmography (selection)

play

Director

  • 1987: Doll Day Afternoon (short film)
  • 1990: Red Hot and Blue (TV movie)
  • 1998: John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography (TV documentary film)
  • 2003: Asylum (documentary short film)
  • 2013: Seeds of Time (documentary)

production

  • 1985: Louise Mandrell: Some Girls Have All the Luck (music video)
  • 1985: UB40 and Chrissie Hynde: I Got You Babe (music video)
  • 1988: Haiti Dreams of Democracy (TV documentary film)
  • 1998: John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography (TV documentary film)
  • 2013: Seeds of Time (documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The 76th Academy Awards - 2004. Oscars.org, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Dryden, who led Gates ag initiative, dies. (No longer available online.) August 11, 2017, archived from the original on August 14, 2017 ; accessed on February 28, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maysville-online.com
personal data
SURNAME McLeod, Sandy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McLeod, Sandra Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Film producer, film director, documentary filmmaker and former actress
DATE OF BIRTH before 1970