Lisa Gossels is the producer, co-director and co-editor of the Emmy award-winning documentary film, THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES (1999). The film, which she made with Dean Wetherell, was invited to 50 film festivals and won 10 awards. Since the Chabanne's theatrical and television premieres, Ms. Gossels has been invited by scores of community groups, educational and religious institutions to speak with the film and teach classes.
For the past three years, Ms. Gossels has been producing and directing a feature-length documentary called IMAGINING PEACE, about a group of Israeli, Palestinian and Palestinian Israeli teenage girls who participated in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace in 2002. She is following the lives of six of the girls three years after the program ended. Like CHABANNES, IMAGINING PEACE is a film about the best in humanity and the power we have as individuals to make a difference in the world. In 1993. Ms. Gossels was a researcher on PARADISE LOST: THE WEST MEMPHIS CHILD MURDERS, by award-winning directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Since then, Gossels has worked as art director, wardrobe stylist, researcher and casting director for companies including: Atlantic Pictures, Maysles Films, Inc., Mediaworks, Jack Morton Productions, The Museum of Jewish Heritage and Verizon. Ms. Gossels also line-produced some forty industrials for clients including Conde Nast, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Times Company and Verizon.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, Ms. Gossels is a graduate of NYU's Film Certificate Program. She is the President of Good Egg Productions, Inc. (formerly Perennial Pictures, Inc.).
