Biography
Marcie Begleiter was born in New York in 1954. From the mid-1980s on, she worked as a set designer and storyboard artist on numerous TV and film productions, including the punk biopic "Sid & Nancy" (UK 1986), the romance "Two Moon Junction" (US 1988), the family drama "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" (US 1994) and the multiple award-winning "Model Minority" (US 2012).
In 2001, Begleiter published her book "From Word to Image: Storyboarding and the Filmmaking Process" which turned out to be a bestseller. To this day, she continues to write for several professional film periodicals while also being a prolific teacher: She became the head of the digital media department at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and was founding director of the interdisciplinary design curriculum "Integrated Learning". At the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, she was a professor for film as well as director of the grad student program "Production Design and Visual Studies". In addition to this, Begleiter taught at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the University of California in Los Angeles, the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, the Internationale Filmschule Köln and the International Film School of Paris.
In summer 2012, Marcie Begleiter began production on her first feature film as director: Her documentary "Eva Hesse" chronicles life and work of the eponymous, late discovered artist, who escaped from Nazi Germany to the US as a child and passed away at the age of 34 in 1970.