A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Lynda is a director who's character driven films explore the darker parts of the human condition, but with a levity from the humor in her voice. Born in New York and raised in the UK, she has travelled the world, been a nanny for the super-rich, a Prop House owner, and a single mom, as well as having had a successful career as a Property Master on projects such as American Beauty, True Detective and Stranger Things. When this work could no longer satisfy her creative soul she decided to follow her dream and direct. Her first film Ready To Go won multiple awards on the festival circuit, and was Oscar qualified for 2020. Lynda is a fellow of the Sony Pictures Diverse Directors Program, a 2019 fellow of the WIF mentorship program, and a fellow of The Black Magic Collective Filmmaker Advancement Initiative. She has produced and directed two more shorts, Lancaster Park and Perfect Match, both winning several awards on the circuit. She is in development on two feature films, and a limited series, which she has written. Irrepressible and hilarious, she is who you want to be working alongside when you are shooting in some grotty alley at three in the morning, completing the day and having fun doing it.
Director:
2021 Lancaster Park
Producer:
2021 Lancaster Park
Production Design:
1990 Club Fed
2021 Lancaster Park
Property Master:
1990 Club Fed
1993 Doppelganger
1993 Night Eyes 3
1994 Final Mission
1995 Four Rooms
1998 American History X
1999 American Beauty
1999 Cruel Intentions
2002 The Salton Sea
2003 National Security
2003 S.W.A.T.
2004 Little Black Book
2016 The Sea of Trees
2021 Lancaster Park
Wardrobe Master:
1989 The Search for Haunted Hollywood
1990 Club Fed
1993 Doppelganger
1993 Night Eyes 3
1994 Final Mission
1995 Four Rooms
1998 American History X
1999 American Beauty
1999 Cruel Intentions
2002 The Salton Sea
2003 National Security
2003 S.W.A.T.
2004 Little Black Book
2016 The Sea of Trees
2021 Lancaster Park
Property Master:
2014 True Detective
2022 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.