George LaVoo

George LaVoo is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Real Women Have Curves, for which he was both producer and screenwriter, won the 2002 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Audience Award. The film was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. In 1999, he produced Getting to Know You, starring Heather Matarazzo, Zach Braff, and Bebe Neuwirth. In 2006, he wrote Blood Monkey, and his 2008 HBO television film A Dog Year, based on the New York Times bestselling book by Jon Katz, starred Jeff Bridges and was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. Bridges received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance. LaVoo is now working as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. LaVoo directed and produced the second season (seven episodes) of the social justice web series We Speak NYC, developed by the City of New York to support immigrant communities through narrative storytelling and language access. The series received a New York Emmy Award for Direction (Web Series). (Via Wikipedia)