Thursday, June 24, 2021

Frances Glessner Lee Documentary Film June 2021 Update

 


I'm happy you care enough about Frances Glessner Lee to check in and see how the documentary film - a follow up to Of Dolls & Murder - is going! Thank you.

As a recap: we tried for years and years to get funding for this documentary but no foundation nor film funding organization would help. We went the traditional and non-traditional routes but still no luck.

As much as people say the support female filmmakers and stories about women in science, something doesn't add up.

Still, we persevere. I fit in re-edits whenever I can. Funding would make this film amazing but for now, I'm just doing everything in my power to keep Murder in a Nutshell: The Frances Glessner Lee Story alive. Frances deserves at least that much. 😉

I find some unexpected moments of sheer joy and wonderment as I go about re-editing. I'm glad we didn't give up on this film project. I almost did, but filmmaker Matt Ehling said, "C'mon it's all there. We just need to tease it out more." And so we are. 

Wish me luck and keep the questions coming! 

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Happy Birthday Frances Glessner Lee!

Happy Birthday, Frances Glessner Lee! (March 25, 1878 - January 27, 1962)

Some call her the Mother of Forensics but I prefer the Patron Saint of Forensics.

She changed the world of criminology with her Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and so much more. 

My documentary filmmaking team and I are working on getting her story out this year. I've been working hard on a new edit of Murder in a Nutshell: The Frances Glessner Lee Story. It's a bit different than the rough cut that screened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

To honor Frances on her birthday, I recommend that you make something miniature, or solve a murder or watch our first documentary film on her Of Dolls & Murder




A preview of the work in progress.