GILLIAN
KLEMPNER WILLMAN
Director, Producer, Writer Editor of "The New Woman: Annie 'Londonderry'
Kopchovsky
The New Woman is the directorial debut for Washington, DC filmmaker Gillian K. Willman and has been a seven-year long labor of love. In addition to producing this independent documentary, Gillian is also Producer / Writer at Cortina Productions, a multimedia production company, where she has written, directed, and produced video and interactive content for more than a dozen cultural institutions, including presentations in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Tolerance, the Capitol Visitor Center, the Sports Museum of America, and the Lincoln Cottage Visitor Education Center.
Gillian has played a key role in the research and production of several long and short form documentary projects, including Peter Jennings Reporting: Guantanamo, Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report, and Discovery Education’s “The Science of Plants.” She is a graduate of Cornell University and lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Ben, daughter, Leila, and cats, Lucy and Oscar.
PETER ZHEUTLIN
Author of “Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride”
Peter Zheutlin is a freelance journalist and author of Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride (Citadel Press, 2007). His most recent book, co-authored with his wife Judith Gelman is The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars and Restaurants of Mad Men (SmartPop/BenBella Books, 2011). Peter’s work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, AARP Magazine and numerous other publications in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to starting his writing career, Peter practiced law and taught legal skills at the University of Virginia and Northwestern University law schools. Mr. Zheutlin is a graduate of Amherst College and Boston College Law School and resides in Needham, Massachusetts with his wife, author Judith Gelman, and his two sons.
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