Lynn Appelle, Producer

Lynn Appelle is the proud recipient of the 2002 Academy Award for her documentary short "THOTH," which she produced with director Sarah Kernochan.

Lynn started her career in Atlanta GA. in the early '90's as a still photographer, taking pictures of local musicians in the college town of Athens and city of Atlanta. As a camera assistant in the film business she worked with such artists as Bobby Brown, Travis Tritt, TLC, Bruce Hornsby and Little Texas on their music videos. She also worked on numerous TV movies of the week, commercials and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta GA. In 1998 she produced the short "The Shop Below the Busy Road." which won an audience award at the Atlanta film festival. In 1998 she moved back to New York to pursue independent film.

Lynn has worked in production on numerous films including, "Dinner Rush" (Danny Aiello & John Corbett), "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back." "Empire" (John Leguizamo. Denise Richards). "Perfume" (Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson, Mariel Hemingway), "Icebreaker" (Sean Astin), "The Florentine" (Luke Perry, Chris Penn, James Belushi) and "Swimming" (Lauren Ambrose). She has line produced various projects for Discovery Channel, USA Broadcasting and National Geographic. She also line-produced the dramatic thriller "The 24th Day." (Scott Speedman, James Marsden) which is based on the play of the same name and is a story about revenge, AIDS and finding the true truth.

In 2001 Lynn became Special Events Coordinator for the Nino's 9/11 fund after the events of September 11th, where she helped feed rescue workers and alleviate some of their hardships during that time. She catalogued over 500 in-kind donations from around the world. Some of these have been donated to prominent museums throughout the United States.

Lynn has spent part of this year finishing work on a feature length play entitled "Looking Always" and working on the feature "Mattie Fresno & The Holoflux Universe." Her company, Duality Productions, is in development on several projects for next year.