Michie Gleason
American film director and screenwriter
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Michie Gleason is a film director and screenplay writer based in Los Angeles.[1] She has written and directed The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife (2001),[2] Summer Heat (1987) and Broken English (1981). She was assistant to the director on the film Days of Heaven (1978).[3][4][5]
While a student at University of California, Los Angeles in 1974, Gleason and fellow students Christine Lesiak and Kathy Levitt wrote, filmed and produced We’re Alive,[6] a documentary covering the economic pressures and injustices faced by women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Chino, California.[7] The film was restored by archivists in 2022 and later selected for preservation at the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.[8][9][10]
