Rachel Lee Goldenberg

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| name = Rachel Lee Goldenberg

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| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |30|2015|07|05}}

| birth_place = United States

| education = Ithaca College (BS)

| occupation = {{hlist|Director|screenwriter}}

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Rachel Lee Goldenberg (born 1984/1985) is an American film director and screenwriter. She has directed a number of feature films and television episodes. She had her breakthrough after she was discovered by Will Ferrell, who gave her the opportunity to direct the Lifetime television film A Deadly Adoption, in which he starred.

Her 1980s musical film Valley Girl was released in May 2020. She has also directed films made by The Asylum. In addition she directed web shorts for Funny or Die, including the series Lady Time.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/section/movies|title=Movies|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-11|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008032326/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/46141/Splash/overview|archive-date=2013-10-08|url-status=dead}} Her next film, Unpregnant, premiered on September 10, 2020, on HBO Max.{{cite web|date=August 12, 2020|title=HBO Max Debuts Trailer and Key Art for WarnerMax Feature Film UNPREGNANT|url=https://pressroom.warnermediagroup.com/us/media-release/hbo-max/hbo-max-debuts-trailer-and-key-art-warnermax-feature-film-unpregnant|access-date=August 12, 2020|website=Warner Media}}

Early life

In 2003, Goldenberg graduated from Algonquin Regional High School in Northboro, Massachusetts.{{Cite web|last=Kazarian|first=Christopher|date=Jul 5, 2015|title=Filmmaker who grew up in Northboro jumps at Lifetime opportunity|url=https://www.telegram.com/article/20150705/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150709531|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221191503/http://www.telegram.com/article/20150705/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150709531|archive-date=February 21, 2016|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Telegram & Gazette|language=en}} She then attended Ithaca College where she obtained her B.S. in cinema and photography.{{Cite web|title=Rachel Lee Goldenberg|url=https://www.freethebid.com/directors/rachel-goldenberg/|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Free The Bid|language=en-US}}

Career

After graduating from college, Goldenberg moved to Los Angeles where she worked at the B movie production company The Asylum. She soon was given the opportunity to direct various films. Then she began directing and producing for Funny or Die, a website launched by actor Will Ferrell and screenwriter Adam McKay. As part of her stint at Funny or Die, she served as the White House liaison during the Barack Obama administration. In 2014, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program for producing the Obama episode of the series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.

Will Ferrell and Harper Steele became interested in her unusual resume of both comedy and Lifetime movies, and hired her to direct Ferrell and Kristen Wiig in the Lifetime television film A Deadly Adoption.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=A Formula for Funny|url=https://society.tv/case-study/formula-for-funny/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Society|language=en-US}}

Filmography

=Film=

Direct-to-video

class="wikitable"

Year

! Title

! Director

! Writer

! Editor

2008

| Sunday School Musical

| {{yes}}

2010

| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

2011

| Princess and the Pony

| {{yes}}

2012

| Grimm's Snow White

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

Feature film

class="wikitable"

Year

! Title

! Director

! Writer

rowspan=2|2020

| Valley Girl

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

Unpregnant

| {{yes}}

2025

| Swiped

| {{yes}}

=Television=

TV movies

Love at the Christmas Table (2012)
Escape From Polygamy (2014)
A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Playing Dead (2018)

TV series

Year ! Title ! Episode(s)
class="wikitable"
rowspan=2\| 2014–15 \|rowspan=2\| Z Nation \| "Sisters of Mercy"
"Zombaby!"
2015 \| The Mindy Project \| "Stay at Home MILF"
rowspan=6\| 2016 \| Party Over Here \| "Suffragettes"
rowspan=2\| Angie Tribeca \| "Miso Dead"
"The Coast Is Fear"
rowspan=3\| Lady Time \| "Episode #1.104"
"Salute Your Culottes"
"Eggers Can't Be Choosers"
rowspan=5\| 2017 \|rowspan=2\| Man Seeking Woman \| "Futon"
"Pad Thai"
rowspan=2\| Teachers \| "Held Back"
"Thirty-One and Done"
I'm Sorry \| "Pilot"
rowspan=2\| 2019 \| Divorce \| "Away Games"
Looking for Alaska \| "Tell Them I Said Something..."
rowspan=4\| 2020 \|rowspan=4\| Everything's Gonna Be Okay \| "Silkmoths"
"Blue Death-Feigning Beetles"
"Maggots"
"Monarch Butterflies"
rowspan=4\| 2022 \|rowspan=4\| Minx \| "Not like a shvantz right in the face"
"Au revoir, le double dong"
"Norman Mailer, Samantha Shortcake"
"Oh, so you're the sun now? You're the giver of life?"
rowspan=2\|2023 \|rowspan=2\|Tiny Beautiful Things \| "Pilot"
"Yours Sugar"

References

External links

{{IMDb name|2079484}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120324101938/http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=181 Princess and the Pony] at The Asylum
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120309155208/http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=164 Sherlock Holmes] at The Asylum
[http://rlgoldenberg.com Official website]

Category:American women film directors

Category:Living people

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Ithaca College alumni

Category:21st-century American women