Joanna Lipper is an author and filmmaker. She runs Sea Wall Entertainment, a company dedicated to the research, development and production of books and films.

Ms. Lipper's debut feature film Little Fugitive will be released by Cinema Libre Studio in September 2008. Lipper's first documentary, Inside Out: Portraits of Children premiered on the Sundance Channel and received the Hollywood Discovery Award.

Her second documentary, Growing Up Fast, was distinguished by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the outstanding short documentaries of 1999. The film focused on teen mothers and was the inspiration for her acclaimed book, Growing Up Fast. Its release marked the beginning of her involvement in grassroots activism and educational outreach efforts in the arena of teen pregnancy and parenthood prevention.

Working in partnership with manager and producer, Davien Littlefield, Ms. Lipper is developing a slate of four feature film projects that she is attached to direct. These include:

Disorder of Your Name ("El Desorden de Tu Nombre"), based on the novel by international bestselling Spanish author, Juan Jose Millas, winner of the 2007 Prix Planete, Spain's highest literary prize.

A Girl From Zanzibar, by Roger King

The Analyst, based on the bestselling thriller by John Katzenbach

Angelmonster, based on the novel by Veronica Bennett

Ms. Lipper holds a B.A from Harvard in Literature and Film, and an M.Sc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from University College London and The Anna Freud Centre. She is currently a fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership.

From September 2008 to June 2009 Ms. Lipper will be a fellow in residence at the W.E.B Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Ms. Lipper's public appearances include lectures on a range of issues relating to psychology, sociology and film.