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Sheila McLaughlin

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Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and photographer. Her debut feature film, Committed (1984), which she co-directed with the writer Lynne Tillman, is an experimental narrative of the life of Frances Farmer, shot on a low budget of 45,000 US dollars. She wrote and directed the controversial film She Must Be Seeing Things (1987). Her films have been described as presenting a grasp of a developing new feminist language of cinema. The source adds that she later left filmmaking to practice acupuncture.

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    Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950)
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    is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and photographer
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    She wrote and directed the controversial film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1987).
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