Discipline: Film/Video

Gretchen Somerfeld

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
Gretchen Somerfeld is the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for her screenplay Face Value, about actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As a producer, she set up the family film Monkey Trial with Ted Field's Radar Pictures, and, as a producer, worked on the sci-fi thriller Push (Infinity Features/Icon Prods.), starring Channing Tatum, with director Paul McGuigan. Somerfeld has written, directed, and produced her own “guerrilla” feature film and three shorts, all of which have received international distribution. She graduated from NYU film school and was the winner of the Independent Filmmakers Grant from the NEA and the honored recipient of the Disney/DGA Directors Fellowship. She has worked in film and television as a script supervisor, production manager and still photographer, and has directed theater in New York and Los Angeles. She won the Script Development award at The Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and the Sloan Filmmaker Fund at the Tribeca Film Institute in 2008 for Face Value.

Studios

Monday Music

Gretchen Somerfeld worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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