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Leah Gottfried
Screenwriters Lab
2019-2020 Fellow
WHERE YOU LEAD (feature)
WHERE YOU LEAD: After relocating to Los Angeles to begin a new life and pursue their dreams, a religious Jewish mother and her ambitious daughter must rebuild their strained relationship with one another and reconnect to their faith. A mother/daughter love story in the vein of LADY BIRD.
Leah Gottfried is an award winning writer/director and actor who draws on her life in the Orthodox Jewish community to tell authentic stories about her world. Her short film THE SETUP won Best Short at the Washington Jewish Film Festival where critics called it “clever, whimsical and sneakily poignant”. Leah is best known for her web series SOON BY YOU (“a Kosher version of Friends”), which she writes, directs and stars in and which has garnered fans all over the world. She is the founder of Dignity Entertainment, a production company dedicated to creating meaningful visual content. Leah was named one of The Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” celebrating young Jews influencing change worldwide. She studied film at Yeshiva University and NYU, and lives in Greenpoint with her rabbi husband.
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