Laurie
Lee Goretski - Writer, Director & Producer
laurie@empprod.com
Filmmaker’s
Bio & Filmogragraphy
Laurie
Lee Goretski is a girl interrupted. An outcast from the start,
originating from the suburban farm country of Stevens Point, Wisconsin,
only to move to the other extreme of Los Angeles, California at
age fourteen. Also including several short spells in the interim
through the Middle American states of: Arizona, Ohio, and Michigan.
Always writing, and working any film job she could get, she was
given a grant to attend Chapman University's Film School. After
receiving the opportunity to work and study under some of the
most innovative minds in the industry she graduated in 2001. Since
that time her passionate focus has been to build an independent
production company which creates breakthrough artistic films and
to continue the tradition of living on the edge, moving boundaries,
and even breaking through them.
The
White Room -- 16mm -- 2003 -- 34min.
Psychological Thriller, A businessman trapped in his life is forced
to confront his sanity.
Berlin:
Squatting it Out -- DV -- 2001 – Work in Progress
Documentary, exploring the high number of German squatters, their
lifestyles and environment.
Perspectives
-- DV -- 2001 -- 8min.
Non-narrative music video, experimenting with Digital Video latitudes,
lighting ratios, and visual clarity.
Life
-- HI-8 -- 2001 -- 13min.
Drama, a woman reflects on her families past, the joy and the
sadness.
Microsocial
-- DV -- 2000 -- 15min.
Experimental, Three five minute sustained dolly rack zooms focusing
on three individual elements.
Venice
Beach: Drum Circles -- 2000 -- DV -- 24min.
Documentary, expressing the music, art, community, and fun of
the circles.
Reality
-- Super8 -- 1999 -- 14min.
Drama/Psychological Thriller, a young woman is faced with the
human forms of good and evil when contemplating suicide.
The
Little Red Briefcase -- HI-8 -- 1999 -- 14min.
Comedy, the little red briefcase gets lost by its owner and goes
on a journey.
The
Lazy, Late, Psychotic Fag -- HI-8 -- 1998 -- 7min.
Silent Comedy, a gay man struggles to fulfill his promise to a
friend.
