Laura Jean Cronin

Laura Jean Cronin is a producer and director known for the Emmy-award winning PBS show "Biz Kid$". She received the Audience Award for "Block Party" from Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival along with Best Girls Short for "One Night" (2009) and Best Local Film for "Leave It!". Laura also won Best Local Film for Free Parking (2006) from Cinema K Children's Film Festival. In 1994, she founded Pound Pictures [us], a motion pictures and film company in Seattle, WA. Laura is Vice President of Women in Film/Seattle and Lead Producer at Reel Grrls Productions, a non-profit offering production services for non-profits at a reasonably low fee. Laura is producer and director at B47 Studios, a full-service video production studio in Seattle, WA. Laura taught film studies at Center on Linguistic and Cultural Democracy for seven years. She mentors girls age 9-19 on production and video services at Reel Grrls for low cost. Laura received her Ph.D -ABD in Comparative Literature and Film from University of Washington.