Ria
Fay-Berquist is a by-product of late 1970s San Francisco, a narrative and
documentary filmmaker, and a former media literacy teacher for young women in
the Chicago public schools. Her first feature script, THE MOTHERS, was selected
for the 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus, and shortlisted for the Torino Film Lab
in 2011. She is the recipient of a
2009 Women in Film Mentorship in screenwriting, and an associate at Paradigm
Consulting, headed by former president of Next Wave Films and distribution
strategist Peter Broderick. She
holds a BFA in Film, Video, and New Media from The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago.
