I am interested in taking the peripheral to center stage. I am drawn to what is missing.
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:#1C1C1C;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Ria Fay-Berquist is a by-product of late 1970’s San Francisco, a narrative and documentary filmmaker, and a former media literacy teacher for young women in the Chicago public schools. Her first feature script, THE MOTHERS, was selected for the 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus, and shortlisted for the Torino Film Lab in 2011.<span> </span>She is the recipient of a 2009 Women in Film Mentorship in screenwriting, and an associate at Paradigm Consulting, headed by former president of Next Wave Films and distribution strategist Peter Broderick.<span> </span>She holds a BFA in Film, Video, and New Media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. </span><!--EndFragment--> <br></p> <p><br></p>