An OG leader for women filmmakers, Michelle Kantor founded Cinefemme at San Francisco State University and has served as Executive Director since 2007. She has produced over 60 features, shorts, festivals and projects by women via Cinefemme’s fiscal sponsorship incubator. The daughter of refugees from Communist Czechoslovakia, RED STAR documents their stunning return. Michelle's  television docuseries ROUTE 66 WOMEN was broadcast on PBS, distributed by American Public Television. The series has a Girl Scout educational curriculum (and badge) developed in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. COPPOLA MECANIQUE is a rare interview with Francis Ford Coppola about a mechanical museum.  ANTIPODISTE pulls the curtain back on circus-vaudeville-cabaret worlds and HIGHWAY TO YODEL-AY-HEE-HUUU snatched Best Music Video at LA Femme. Michelle was a producer on RuPaul’s Drag Race & Drag Con, directed for Time Warner's Desportes Network and shadowed for Paramount. She also directs music videos and rockumentaries. Other credits include HBO, FYI, OWN, World of Wonder, History Channel, Sony, Universal, MJA Advertising, NASA, BBDO. She speaks several languages including Czech, Slovak and French.