Leslie Combemale is a freelance film journalist and film critic, producer, and curator/gallerist. Her writing, which is focused on women and diversity in film, can be seen on Motion Picture Associations’s TheCredits, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, where she is senior contributor, and on her own site, CinemaSiren.com. She has a passion for artists below the line, celebrating them through her film art gallery ArtInsights, located outside Washington, DC. There she has been selling film art by the filmmakers for over 28 years. She is an expert on the history of animation and film art, and has been amplifying the careers of animators important to the classic animated features and tv shows, as well as production artists integral to films like Star Wars and Harry Potter, at conventions around the world for over a decade, as well as with her contributions to the Motion Picture Association's The Credits website. She believes parity for women behind the camera and below the line will come, in part, through the support of the thousands of vocal fans at San Diego Comic-Con who have loyally attended the panel she produces that promotes female filmmakers, Women Rocking Hollywood, now in its 8th year.
