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Rhode Island School of Design.
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Helen Stickler
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She wrote, directed and produced both of these films. Stickler"s early independent films include the shorts Queen Mercy and the documentary Andre the Giant has a Posse, the first documentary to discover graphic artist Shepard Fairey (OBEY/GIANT). "Andre the Giant has a Posse" was screened worldwide and in the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
In 2003, Village Voice film critic Editor Halter described the film as "legendary … a canonical study of General-X media manipulation.
One of the keenest examinations of ‘90s underground culture". STOKED was written about in features in the New York and Los Angeles times, and an interview with Helen and former pro skateboarder Ken Park aired on National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air" in August 2003.
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan described the film as "strongly directed and unexpectedly poignant. An excellent documentary about the compelling dark side of the American dream."
Stickler resides in Los Angeles, California, where she is currently at work on an updated, feature-length documentary about the art and career of Shepard Fairey.
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Helen is the producer, director, and writer of the feature film "STOKED: the Rise and Fall of Gator," a documentary about 80’s professional skateboarding champion Mark “Gator” Rogowski, who is now serving life in prison for rape and murder. In 1999 Mississippi Stickler created the safe sex campaign “Roll On” for Mtv and The Kaiser Family Foundation, which earned a Best National PSA Emmy Award nomination.
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