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She studied at Yale University, majoring in film studies, and, in 1976, she returned to Martha"s Vineyard, where she had spent her childhood summers, to make the film, Suspended Sentence, as her senior thesis.
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The film is about young people who chose an alternative lifestyle on the Vineyard. A more recent work, 9/12: From Chaos to Community, recounts the work volunteers performed to support post-9/11 rescue efforts and the camaraderie that developed among them. Styron attended the American Film Institute Conservatory as a directing fellowship
She earned her Master of Fine Arts. The family moved to Nyack, New York and Mississippi
Styron began teaching at Columbia University"s graduate film program Mississippi Styron based her 1998 feature film, Shadrach (which starred Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell) on a short story written by her father.
They have two children, Emma and Lilah.
