Lisa Thrasher
The President of Film Production and Distribution for POWER UP (Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up), Lisa Thrasher is a film producer, lawyer, professor and photographer. She produced the multi award-winning film Itty Bitty Titty Committee, POWER UP’s first feature, and more recently produced its latest film, GIRLTRASH: All Night Long, a rock musical-comedy involving a battle of the bands and lots of dyke drama. Thrasher says, “As a film producer, I hope to make films that impact and energize women to challenge themselves to effectuate global change.” As a guest professor, Thrasher teaches “film production, producing and the legal aspects of film production” for a variety of universities around the globe, as well as for POWER UP. As if that’s not enough, this multi-talented artist’s photography has been shown at galleries in New York and France and she was the first recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts fellowship for her photography. -CB
