Meryl H. Joseph
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    Office:   917.992.5938
  •  Address
    58 River Street,
    Great Barrington, MA, 01230, United States of America
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    http://meryljoseph.com

Meryl H. Joseph

(She/Her)
Producer/Director
Full Bio
It’s been awhile since you’ve heard from me, why? For the past two years (yes, during lockdown and beyond), I've been writing. This deep dive into 3 new screenplays has recently taken me to France, in an incredibly creative adventure surrounded by immersion into the culture and inspiration from the surroundings.

I’m back from 3 months in an ‘artist in residency’ program …7 weeks in Noyers sur Serein at La Porte Peinte, Centre pour les Arts, and 5 weeks in Paris, finalizing the trio of films that will be made in France and environs. The films are lyrically styled in magical realism, myth and narrative and seen through the female gaze and the eyes and wisdom of Ancestors. This experience was truly a magic carpet ride –– life-changing and creatively awe-inspiring.
I am so grateful.

These quotes shed some light on my endeavors. Please contact me for further information: mj@meryljoseph.com

"Filmmaker Meryl Joseph pioneered a surprising surrealism in her photos of the village and of Paris while working on developing three France-based film projects." (Michelle Anderson, Directrice/Founder, La Porte Peinte, Centre Pour Les Arts, Noyers sur Serein, France)
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"Joseph's works are postmodern appropriations of a mythic past.

Contemporary and early human experience
meet on the common ground of art and spirituality."
(Keith Shaw, Berkshire Eagle)

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"Meryl's three screenplays are fascinating! She is a brilliant writer and an artist of great clarity. She has great command of the female voice that is still so lacking in the contemporary world, blending poetry with story.

As an avid fan of magical realism, I am entranced by Meryl’s approach and how she moves through many dimensions of time at once, altering the reader/viewer’s chronoception at every turn." (Bonnie DeVarco, Buckminster Fuller Foundation)

Professional Credits
Director (film and theatre)/Screenwriter/ Field Producer/Set, Location Photography/ Production Designer - Theatre: Lighting, Projections, Set and Immersive Sound
Industry Awards
(selects)Cine Golden Eagle/ AFVA Festival Award,Best Educational Documentary - Media Access Awards, L.A./Screenings/Nikelodeon/TLC/Metro Channel (nyc)/Sierra Club Film Festival (opener)/Museum of National History (NYC)/National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wash.,DC./Cinematique, L.A./finalist,Okomedia Environmental Film Festival, Freiburg,Germany
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