Talent Guide

Bridget Terry

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Directing Lab 2005

Bio

Bridget Terry has produced, written or directed a variety of award-winning television. Her productions have been honored with the George Foster Peabody Award, ACE awards, Christopher Award, Video Hall of Fame, Action for Children’s Television, three Emmy nominations, and others.

Her company, Chaise Lounge Productions, is developing a slate aimed at family audiences to be produced and marketed for multi-platform exhibition. Titles include “Dude I’m Famous,” based upon a Newberry award-winner, “Donuthead,” a comic YA novel, and “Powerhouse,” a musical for the screen.

Terry independently produced and co-wrote the film “Shadrach,” starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell. It opened the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and was in competition at Venice.

She continues to write and produce in long form television, having written or produced films for ABC, CBS, PBS, Showtime, Lifetime, TNT and Hallmark.

A film history buff, Terry produced, directed and co-wrote “Without Lying Down,” a documentary about screenwriter Frances Marion and early women filmmakers. It premiered on TCM. Nominated for a WGA award, it screened at film festivals, including London, Edinburgh and Sydney.

Terry joined actress Shelley Duvall to produce and show-run three anthology series: “Faerie Tale Theatre,” “Tall Tales and Legends” and “Nightmare Classics,” adapting classics with an eclectic, creative roster including Robin Williams, Francis Coppola, Eric Idle, Tim Burton, Jules Feiffer, Liza Minnelli, Mick Jagger, Susan Sarandon, and Billy Crystal.

She began her career working for director, Robert Altman and his Lion’s Gate Films, where as V.P. of Marketing & Publicity, she worked on such films as “Three Women,” “Welcome to LA,” “Quintet, “A Wedding” and “Popeye.”

She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Current Project

The Christmas Dogs (Narrative Feature)

Logline

Four angelic stray mutts descend upon the town of Kalapoo Falls to rekindle the holiday spirit in the lives of four very needy humans.