Deborah Kampmeier is an award winning filmmaker who has written, directed, produced and edited multiple independent feature and short films. She founded Full Moon Films in 1993 to create films by and about women.
In addition, Kampmeier, is a highly sought after television director. This spring she returns to HBO’s critically-acclaimed period drama “The Gilded Age,” having previously directed two episodes in their second season, she will be directing three episodes of season three. Additionally, she recently directed two episodes of young adult crime series “Harlan Coben’s Shelter” for Amazon and Western thriller “Outer Range” starring Josh Brolin, also for Amazon.
Through her production company, Kampmeier wrote, directed and produced four feature films. Her first feature, “Virgin,” starring Elisabeth Moss and Robin Wright, was nominated for two 2004 Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Actress for Elisabeth Moss and the John Cassavetes Award. Her second feature, “Hounddog,” starring Dakota Fanning and Robin Wright was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Kampmeier’s third feature, “Split,” won Best of Show at the 2016 Female Eye Film Festival. Her fourth feature, “Tape,” starring Isabelle Fuhrman, was scheduled to open in theaters March 2020 but unfortunately Covid prevented its theatrical release. It is now available on VOD.
Kampmeier made her television directorial debut on Ava DuVernay & Oprah Winfrey’s heralded drama “Queen Sugar” in 2019 and followed immediately with two episodes of the first season of DuVernay’s “Cherish the Day.” Since then, she has also directed episodes of “Clarice,” “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Star Trek: Picard,” “FBI: International,” and “Tales of the Walking Dead.”
Kampmeier is developing her next features “Holy Whore,” “The Cassandra,” “Pilgrim’s Wilderness,” and “Dirt Rhapsody,” as well as her series “A Witch in Harlem,” and limited series “Radioactive Mothers.”
Kampmeier is the founder and CEO of The New Myths Film Fund, an investment, production, sales and marketing platform for high-caliber female identified filmmakers who are writing, directing and producing feature films that create new myths, and unearth ancient ones, that honor women’s deepest truths, change the cultural narrative, and set women free. The New Myths Film Fund presents a new paradigm in the media landscape set to disrupt the current world culture.
