User:Michele leblanc/sandbox

Michele LeBlanc was born in San Francisco, California.

Career
Worked in Engineering in the "Silicon Valley" which includes video game and digital electronics projects such as "Pong". Came to Los Angeles in 1980. Worked for Walt Disney Productions on Epcot Center, Tokyo Disneyland, Euro-Disneyland in audio-animatronics, video and audio for Disneyland, Anaheim, worked on the "New Fantasyland Project".

Michele went into stagelighting in 1986 working on projects such as "Disney on Ice", "IMAX" Theatre at the Los Angeles Exposition center for the 1984 Olympics as a field engineer. In 1986, Michele went to work for Bill Hooey Productions for Writer/Director/Producter Bill Hooey on the popular "LA Nitelife Show" as a camerawoman and on-line editor on such projects as "The 1986 Emmy Awards". Michele also did voice overs work for the program. Michele's work includes IWERKS Entertainment. She worked as a Techincal Writer on motion control/projection systems for theatrical presentation.

In 1988 she joined a group of camerawomen in "Behind the Lens" a professional camerawomen's association and in 1989 she became the President of this group. She worked to promote education and employment of women working in the television and film industry on feature film projects with members Brianne Murphy, ASC, Haskell Wexler, ASC and idustry professionals promoting women behind the camera. In, 1990 she presented the first "Behind The Lens Merit Award' to producer/director Gary Goldberg, for his participation in the Paramount Day Care Center, on the Paramount Studios film lot in Hollywood. whose other participants include Danny Devito and Rhea Pearlman.

In 1990 Michele became the Vice President of the Interguild Women's Caucas, as a representative of "Behind the Lens". There she worked to promote educational projects and industry hiring in Hollywood for new camerawomen and camerawomen alread working professionally.

Michele worked with "Women In Film" on events promoting women directors, producers and camerawomen. These events included, "The Kathleen Turner Award",Michele was also a member of the IFP West, Independent Feature Project West, independent film and television producers and directors. She has given lectures on the history and her engineering participation in industry projects. Michele has been a member of Women In Film since 1989. Michele has been the owner of her own production company since 1988. Stagelights, Ltd. and is working as a Producer/Director for a new film group American Platnum, Inc. based in Los Angeles, California.

She is presently a member of the Hollywood Heritage Society, and has worked on various events promoting women's history behind the camera with such groups as SAG and Aftra, Kodak and other commercial film concerns in Hollywood.

Credits

 * Women Behind the Camera (2007), Off-Line Technical editor - consultant and Research for Rafael Films, with  Director/Writer/Producer Alexis Krasilovsky
 * President, "Behind the Lens", a professional camerawomen's association
 * Women In Film, member sinced 1989
 * Interguild Representative from "Behind the Lens" 1989
 * Vice-President of the Interguild, 1989-1990