By Sherene Strausberg
My first film, “Cool For You,” has been accepted into 39 film festivals and received multiple awards, including a Silver Anthem Award last month. As an independent filmmaker with no financial backing or creative support team, I produced, directed, animated, scored, and sound mixed/edited the an animated micro-short myself. I am proud of this accomplishment because the only way that this could have happened for me is because of the unique circumstances when a long, winding creative career as a woman in Hollywood, followed by a career change, met its abrupt pinnacle from an unexpected world pandemic. Let’s go back 30 years when I decided I wanted