Fawn Yacker
American filmmaker, producer and cinematographer
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Fawn Yacker is an American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. She also co-found the LGBT organization "The Last Closet".
About
In 2009, she co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed with director Dee Mosbacher a one-hour documentary film entitled Training Rules,[1] about the controversial women's basketball program ran by Rene Portland at Pennsylvania State University collegiate sports. Fawn Yacker is a founding member of The Nuclear Beauty Parlor.
She co-founded the LGBT organization "The Last Closet", with the goal of ending homophobia in men's professional athletics and providing support.[2][3][4]
Yacker is credited on several films directed by Oscar-winner Debra Chasnoff, including: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment[5] (1991), It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School (1996), Let's Get Real (2006), It's Still Elementary (2007), and Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up (2009)[6] as a cinematographer, and That's a Family! (2000) as a co-producer.
Filmography
Director
- 2009: Training Rules - co-director with Dee Mosbacher[1]
Producer
- 2000: That's a Family! - co-producer with Debra Chasnoff, and Ariella J. Ben-Dov.[7][8]
- 2009: Training Rules - co-producer with Dee Mosbacher[1]
Cinematographer
- 1983: Sippie
- 1987: Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age
- 1989: Sacred Passion (V)
- 1991: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment[5]
- 1993: Sex Is...
- 1996: It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
- 2006: Let's Get Real
- 2005: Waging a Living
- 2007: It's Still Elementary (V) (aka It's Still Elementary: The Movie and the Movement
- 2009: Training Rules
- 2009: Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up[9]