Laura D’Antoni was born and raised in Germany to an American mother and Sicilian father. After moving to the US at age 17, she spent a month attending a New York Film Academy workshop in Florence, Italy, making short films on 16mm to test if her passion had merit as a career. It did. She received her B.F.A. in Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and made a 1950s period piece thesis film that screened at five film festivals. After working in New York as an assistant director on a popular web series and as an associate producer on a feature documentary, she started her own production company, Leprika Productions, in South Florida. There she directed her first feature documentary, Not Safe To Be Me, a film about the struggles of LGBT youth that premiered at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. D’Antoni…
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