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Desperately Seeking Susan is considered one of the 100 greatest films directed by women.

Has worked part time as a professor of film, teaching directing and screenwriting at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University and The New School in NYC.

Her mother, living in a Florida retirement home, urged her to do The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club (2005) and wrote the movie's script together with David Cramer.

After attending Abington Senior High School, she studied fashion and arts at the Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1994

Is the partner of screenwriter and producer Jonathan Brett. They have a son, Oscar Brett.

Daughter of Florence Seidelman.