Laura Belsey is an award-winning director, whose commercials and short films have won numerous international honors, including a Cannes Gold Lion.
Her “New York, New York” spot for the Coalition for the Homeless, hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most remarked on, and remarkable, examples of the puissance of public service advertising,” is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Currently Belsey is a partner at Shadow Pictures, a film and commercial production company in New York.
She is an adjunct professor at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program and serves on the Directors Guild of America’s National Board and Eastern Directors Council.
(Shadow Pictures http://www.shadowpictures.com/).


















