Award winning director, producer, actress, Yvette Edery graduated with a Masters degree from New York University in directing and producing film and was immediately signed to a 3 year exclusive contract with Abrams Artists Agency upon graduation, going on to perform puppetry in 13 countries, while performing off Broadway and acting as a production assistant on almost every major children's television production taking place in NYC. Yvette soon was asked to teach in the Tisch film school at NYU and was giving master classes in performance to graduate students, as well as teaching workshops for Princeton University, before making her festival debut with Jillian Dillon (2009) which went on to play at over 100 festivals internationally, winning in Toronto and Beverly Hills. After Yvette's welcoming to the festival circuit, culminating with festivals flying her all over the world to teach puppetry and film workshops after her Q and A, winning awards, she began production on a featurette which would go on to become a permanent part of the film archives at the National Holocaust Museum in Israel, Yad Vashem, The Heart is a Mirror (2010), also a part of the permanent archives at the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles, CA.Most recently, the Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center have both purchased her films for their permanent collections. Indiewire magazine named her as 1 in 6 female film directors to watch in Hollywood and she has been slated to direct for Warner Brothers and has written three feature films she will independently direct, design, and produce, in the vein of her international hit, Jillian Dillon, under the title of The Foretoken Collection. Yvette is also a highly regarded makeup artist. Show less «