Leah Wolchok
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TFI Documentary Fund 2011
About
Leah Wolchok is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who recently co-produced the documentary Ask Not, which aired on the Independent Lens series on PBS in 2009. Her award-winning short films have played at festivals worldwide, including the HBO Frame-by-Frame Documentary Film Series and Silverdocs. She received a BA in English from Yale and an MA in Documentary Production from Stanford. And despite all that name-dropping, she really does like to laugh.
Very Semi-Serious
(2011 TFI/HBO Fellowship)
Very Semi-Serious takes an inside look at the colorful personalities behind the celebrated New Yorker cartoons. A stylized blend of documentary and animation, the film transforms the iconic black-and-white images into a vibrant comic world. Along the way, the film explores the evolution of the cartoonists’ humor and how it reflects the changing social and political landscape of urban life.