The Other 50%
Herstory of Hollywood Podcast
Episode 116

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“Layne Marie is a Director and Filmmaker in Chicago, the Founder and Executive Director of Women of the Now,
a media and production company, and the Co-Founder and Director of Development of the Women’s Film Festival
​in Philadelphia. And she’s not yet 30. This woman makes things happen.”

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CHICAGO WOMAN MAGAZINE
Women in Arts & Entertainment Issue

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CHICAGO-WOMAN.COM
Sept/Oct 2018, pg. 51

"As an award-winning filmmaker and director,
Williams in committed to sharing the stories
​of women and those that identify as women."

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"I was painting and writing poems in my parents' garage...I love monsters. I love fairy tales. I love heightened surrealistic stories with serious grounding and meaning." 

REEL WOMEN CHICAGO

The POST*STAR

​Featured while attending The Adirondack Film Festival
for feature film Rendezvous in Chicago 

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“Sometimes it is just “movie magic,” said Layne Marie Williams, during a Spot Coffee interview on Thursday evening as she tells the story of the final day and the final scene of shooting “Rendezvous in Chicago.”

‘Nina Ganet was throwing a Blu-Ray DVD (player) out the window, but we only had one player,” said Williams, who produced the film along with writer and director Michael Smith. We had to nail it, it was our one and only shot. It was beautiful chaos, it’s my favorite scene.”’

From the Adirondack Film Festival 2018 series.