Meema Spadola
photo credit: Ry Russo-Young

Meema Spadola is an award-winning producer, director and writer of documentary films and radio. She grew up in rural Maine, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her parents divorced when she was ten years old, and her mother came out as a lesbian. Meema began working in documentary film in 1988 during breaks from her studies at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She is the co-founder of Sugar Pictures with Thom Powers.
Out of the Ordinary

In addition to making Our House, Meema's autobiographical essay appears in Out of the Ordinary (St. Martin's Press, August, 2000) a book by and for kids of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents.

 
Breasts: A Documentary
photo credit: Carolina Zorrilla de San Martin

Meema's previous work includes Breasts: A Documentary, an hour-long independent film which featured twenty-two women and girls from age six to 84-years-old talking about how their breasts have affected their experiences of puberty, sex, motherhood, health and aging. The film was the highest rated documentary in Cinemax's history and is now available from HBO Home Video.

Deborah Tannen (author of You Just Don't Understand) praised Breasts as "a film that changes the way you look at the world and yourself." It has gone on to receive a Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals 1997 and a Director's Citation from The Black Maria Video and Film Festival.
 
Breasts (The Book)

Meema's book Breasts: Our Most Public Private Parts, a continuation of the dialogue begun in Breasts: A Documentary, is now available from Wildcat Canyon Press. The New York Daily News praised it as "The Breast Bible" and the L.A. Times praised the book's "humor and dignity."