Missouri

While covering the 2003 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, where one of my films was showing, Joe Williams, film critic of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote an article in which he referred to me as the “godmother of the St. Louis filmmaking community.” I was flattered but also a bit embarrassed. I have no idea how he came up with it, but the name stuck. More and more people began calling me “the godmother,” and I felt slightly uncomfortable bearing the title without really knowing what it meant. I certainly didn’t start my career in film as any kind of godmother.