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Biography
Maryann
Breschard is a writer, producer and director.
She is best known for her
feature documentary, Running
in High
Heels.
The film explores politics and female empowerment by putting
the
responsibility for women's lack of political power directly on women's
shoulders. The film argues that
women
do not need to rise up but wake up and free themselves
from stereotypes -- but not their femininity.
Running
in High
Heels premiered in 2005 and
continues to play on college campuses across the
country.
Maryann began her career at the Bottom Line nightclub
in New York City where she learned about the music business for four
years while she was earning her
degree in Film and Television from NYU's Tisch School of the
Arts. She then served a tenure at the
William
Morris Agency. After realizing she didn’t
want to be in the
“flesh trade,” she left the agency and went on to
produce
for various video divisions at Atlantic Records, Time Warner and BMG
Entertainment.
More recently, Maryann was an executive producer of over 500 arthouse
DVDs
including Akira Kurosawa's Ran,
Costa Gavra’s Z,
Russian Ark,
Godard’s Breathless
and John
Woo’s the
Killer
as well as
hundreds of American independent films. Her work
included
interviews with filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, John Woo, Edward Yang,
and Catherine Breillat just to name a
few. These
interviews and the filmmakers themselves inspired her to produce and write on her own.
She was born in the harbor town of Port Jefferson, NY and descends from the French circus family of Breschard & Pepin. After arriving in America in 1806, the Breschard family founded the oldest theatre in America, the Walnut Street Theatre,
which still operates today. During the early 1800s, the
now-famous theater family of the Barrymores were stagehands in the
employ of the Breschards...and then obvioulsy something went terribly awry.
Maryann currently resides in New York City.
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