Lorie Marsh

Web site: forwardmarsh.net

Lorie partnered with filmmakers Kat Candler and Stacy Schoolfield in the Austin, Texas production company, Storie Productions. The trio produced Candler’s narrative short, Pilot & Olo, which aired on PBS, and Candler’s ultra-low-budget narrative feature, jumping off bridges. The film premiered at the 2006 South By Southwest Film festival, was a participant in the 2005 IFP Rough Cuts Lab, and received a 2005 Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund Grant, a 2007 Prism Award Commendation for Mental Health in Motion Pictures, and a 2007 Heroes in the Fight Award. In the fall of 2006, Storie Productions self-distributed jumping off bridges in 20 theaters across the U.S. teamed with suicide prevention and mental health organizations. It later aired on PBS and is now being distributed through New Day Films.

Prior to forming Storie Productions, Lorie founded and produced a statewide screenwriting contest for Texas writers for three years, called Movie Midwifing. The contest, sponsored in part by the Austin Film Festival, presented public readings of the winning scripts, cast with professional actors. She also wrote, directed, and produced three short films, as well as produced and/or directed six stage plays, including an acclaimed production of Lanford Wilson’s Burn This.

Before moving to Texas, Marsh spent nearly a decade in software development as a designer, project manager, then entrepreneur who co-founded a software development company. At Sensory Computing, she focused on business development, marketing, and negotiating the rights to re-purpose custom training software and re-sell it. She sold her interest to her partners to move into producing and directing theater and films.