Fawn Yacker
Fawn Yacker is an American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. She also co-found the LGBT organization "The Last Closet".
About
In 2009, she co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed with director Dee Mosbacher a one-hour documentary film entitled Training Rules, about the controversial women's basketball program ran by Rene Portland at Pennsylvania State University collegiate sports. Fawn Yacker is a founding member of The Nuclear Beauty Parlor.She co-founded the LGBT organization "The Last Closet", with the goal of ending homophobia in men's professional athletics and providing support.
Yacker is credited on several films directed by Oscar-winner Debra Chasnoff, including: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment '', It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, Let's Get Real, It's Still Elementary, and Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up as a cinematographer, and That's a Family!'' as a co-producer.
Filmography
Director
- 2009: Training Rules - co-director with Dee Mosbacher
Producer
- 2000: That's a Family! - co-producer with Debra Chasnoff, and Ariella J. Ben-Dov.
- 2009: Training Rules - co-producer with Dee Mosbacher
Cinematographer
- 1983: Sippie
- 1987: Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age
- 1989: Sacred Passion
- 1991: Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
- 1993: Sex Is...
- 1996: It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
- 2006: Let's Get Real
- 2005: Waging a Living
- 2007: It's Still Elementary (aka It's Still Elementary: The Movie and the Movement
- 2009: Training Rules
- 2009: ''Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up''