Tiffany Shlain Bio
Honored as one of Newsweek's "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is the founder and ambassador of The Webby Awards and an award-winning filmmaker. Tiffany's career is guided by a passion for unraveling complex ideas in unorthodox ways. Her work covers an array of topics, from the internet to politics to religion. She has directed eight films including Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness, a Sundance Film Festival selection 2003 and broadcast on TV on The Sundance Channel. She studied film theory at U.C. Berkeley and film production at N.Y.U. In addition to her filmmaking, she continues to work on The Webbys and is invited to lecture on both her filmmaking and the web's affect on society. The 10th Annual Webby Awards will be in New York City, June 2006. She is currently developing a film that takes a grand tour of the issues surrounding reproduction from a global perspective, the film will touch upon the topics of fertility, poverty, sex, contraception, beauty, AIDS, reproductive rights, love, and genetics. Tiffany lives with her husband Ken and daughter Odessa in San Francisco.
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