Lynn Hendee
Lynn Hendee has a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California’s Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program, and she was an adjunct Professor of Filmic Writing at USC for ten years. She worked with legendary Producer Bob Chartoff for many years as Head of Production. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America and founding Co-Chair of the PGA’s Women’s Impact Network (WIN). She is also an alumni of the 2017 Sundance Institute/Women in Film Intensive Workshop.
She recently produced The Glorias, a feature film based on the book by Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, directed by Julie Taymor and starring Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Janelle Monae, Lorraine Toussaint, and Timothy Hutton. The Glorias had its World Premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Lynn also produced Julie Taymor’s film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as her film The Tempest, starring Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Russell Brand, Ben Whishaw, David Strathairn, Alfred Molina, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Tom Conti and Djimon Hounsou. The Tempest was honored as the closing night film of the 2010 Venice Film Festival, the Centerpiece selection for the 2010 New York Film Festival, and was featured at the Chicago International Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and the 2011 Moscow International Film Festival.
Lynn also produced the Lionsgate release of Ender’s Game alongside Bob Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Gigi Pritzker. Ender’s Game was directed by Gavin Hood and starred Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, and Hailee Steinfeld.
Ms Hendee’s film In My Country, starring Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson, was awarded the Diamond Cinema for Peace Award at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as the Common Ground Award for Film in honor of its depiction of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa. Upon viewing the film, Nelson Mandela thanked the filmmakers for their “gift to the South African people.”
She is currently in development at HBO on The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson, about the pioneering environmentalist and author; The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa, based on the true story of the 1911 theft of the most famous painting in the world from the Louvre Museum; Jack London’s Wolf House, about the complicated relationship between Jack London and his co-adventurer wife, Charmian; and a cable series entitled Hackabout, based on the book Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones by Erica Jong.