Lisa Cholodenko

Lisa Cholodenko is an American lesbian filmmaker known for High Art (1998), a drug-saturated film about desire and ambition in the New York photography world, and The Kids Are All Right (2010), which earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay and starred Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a lesbian couple whose children seek out their sperm donor. Cholodenko drew on her own experience as a lesbian mother for the film. She also directed the celebrated HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014, multiple Emmy Awards). She has been openly lesbian throughout her career.