Janet Grillo produced such award-winning films as a creative executive at New Line Cinema as Pump up the Volume, House Party and Who’s the Man, and then later as an independent producer with the Sundance favorites Joe the King and Searching for Paradise. In 2008, she won an Emmy for the HBO documentary Autism: The Musical. Her short fiction film, Flying Lessons, debuted at Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, won the Best Dramatic Short at First Glance Hollywood, and the Silver Lei at the Honolulu Film Festival. It inspired the critically acclaimed full-length narrative feature Fly Away which premiered in competition at the South By Southwest Film Festival in 2011, winning Best Narrative Film at the Arizona Film Festival, before opening theatrically in select cities, to excellent reviews from The New York Times, Huffington Post, New York Observer and Los Angeles Times, which called it most overlooked for an Oscar. Fly Away continues in international release via iTunes, Amazon, Netflix. Grillo is currently an Associate Professor of the Arts at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, in Film Producing and Screenwriting.