Adversity Sparks Impactful Change in Entertainment with Writer/Director/Actor/Producer, Stephanie Sanditz

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Today on the podcast we chat with writer/director/actor/producer, Stephanie Sanditz about how her adversity ultimately has impacted her work in the entertainment industry.
STEPHANIE SANDITZ is a writer/director/actor/producer based in LA via NY, and originally from Broken Heart, Missouri, the subject of her feature film, LEGENDS ONLY that won a Tribeca Film Festival Award for New Voices in Screenwriting and set to be her feature directorial debut. She has written over 14 films for various studios and sold original TV shows to multiple networks. She recently finished action-comedy, HELL WOOD with Carsten Lorenz (INDEPENDENCE DAY) and optioned her series SHOW ME STATES to Emmy award winning Happy Accidents (Ginny&Georgia). Her Boxing Romance, PERFECT ADDICTION, released this year #1 on Amazon Worldwide, through Endeavor Content and Constantin Films. She has adapted multiple books and comics to features - including female Viking Epic, HEATHEN, based on the Vault Comic, with Catherine Hardwicke (TWILIGHT) set to direct, sweeping petticoat soldier bio-pic, MY LAST SKIRT for Grammy and Tony Winning GrandSlam productions, buddy-comedy, TALKING TOM, with Raja Gosnell (SMURFS) directing and optioned comedy feature, DANCE PARTY to AGC Studios (MOONFALL) with Queen Latifah producing and starring. In TV, she sold an original comedy pilot, PYRAMID, to FX with Rob McElhenney (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Wrexham) Executive Producing. She also sold a pitch to Mila Kunis’ (BAD MOMS) Orchard Farms Productions, and ABC Signature (SMILF), then wrote, starred, directed and produced her autobiographical pilot, THE HIGH LIFE, starring opposite Amy Landecker (Transparent) and Jesse Garcia (Flamin Hot), winning multiple awards including Best Actress, Pilot and Writing at Austin, Bentonville, Dances With Films, Hollywood Reel Independent among many other festivals. She also wrote, produced and showran short form series Chat. Like. Love. For Dreamworks' AwesomenessTV. Other feature credits include erotic comedy BEAUTIFUL BASTARD for Lionsgate, and INFERNAL DEVICES, the prequel to the MORTAL INSTRUMENT SERIES, distributed by Sony and Screengems. Stephanie has acted in many series and films, and is the co-star of Amazon's, 37 PROBLEMS and Universal Feature, THE LIST. She is a tri-athlete, a boxer, and the Co-creator of the Hollywood Womxn’s Happy Hour, and an active organizer for Planned Parenthood, The ACLU, and The Ferguson/St. Louis Library Foundation, which she started with her father, Beau Willimon (House of Cards) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men). https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesanditz/

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