Foster Wilson

Foster is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and recipient of the 2017 Emergence Award. She made the transition from acting to directing in 2015 while working with the independent film collective, Detroit Street Films. Her short film, Waffles, held its world premiere at the 2017 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival in Toronto. Waffles, starring Jeanine Mason and Leslie Stevens, went on to screen at over 15 festivals in the US as well as Australia, Germany, Hong Kong and India; to date, the film has been nominated for 8 awards including Best Comedy, Best Performance and Best of Fest. In spring of 2018, Foster directed the film Made Public, written by Brian Leahy and starring Jeanine Mason and Josh Zuckerman, for which she received an Emergence Award for Female Filmmakers from The Camera Division. Other recent projects include the short film Platypus, a dark tragicomedy about honesty and intimacy; the pilot presentation Love Scenes, LLC, a fictional, feminist take on the adult film industry; and a short series entitled Gross Anatomy, which will accompany the release of the book by Mara Altman in fall of 2018. In early 2019, Foster is slated to direct the comedy short 5 Stages of Grief. She is also in development on a feature with Detroit Street Films based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play La Ronde. Foster has a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She runs Something Wilde Productions in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Brian Leahy.