Marlen Hecht

Marlen Hecht is one of the first female producers to have three films premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. She is also a director, and post-production film industry pioneer as the Founder and CEO of Teatown Video, Inc. (also known as Teatown Communications Group) where she created one of the first interformat editing facilities. She founded Teatown Video, Inc. without partners or investors and built it into a multi-million dollar post-production, VFX, and graphics firm with projects that have won Academy Awards and Emmy Awards, and clients such as NBC, ABC, CBS, HBO, Showtime, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, AMC, Comedy Central, Disney Channel, and many others. She has been featured in New York Magazine's "How Women Can Thrive" and "New York Women in Film & TV's "The Feminization of Power: Women as Entrepreneurs." Her films as a producer (with her producing partner Dean Silvers) include Manny & Lo (1996) (Scarlett Johansson), Wigstock: The Movie (1995) (one of the highest grossing LGBTQ documentaries of all-time), Committed (2000) (Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Mark Ruffalo), and she has produced TV shows for HBO, IFC, Netflix, Discovery, TruTV and many others. Hecht's latest comedy series Becoming Jiff (2018) was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films on Amazon Prime Video. The series received critical acclaim with BuzzFeed calling it "A funny, sweet, and highly binge-able comedy," The Film Stage comparing the filmmakers to Judd Aptaow, calling them "Talented emerging writer-directors... here to take up the comedy mantle," and Stage 32 calling them "The Best New Comedy Filmmakers." Hecht has lectured at NYU, the Sundance Institute, and is an Independent Spirit Award-nominee, and a multi-time Telly Award-winner.