Sheila McLaughlin

Acting · Directing

Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and photographer. She wrote and directed the controversial film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1987). Her debut feature film, Committed (1984), which she co-directed with writer Lynne Tillman, is an experimental narrative of the life of Frances Farmer, shot on a low budget of $45,000. McLaughlin's films have been described as presenting "a grasp of a developing new feminist language of cinema."

Filmography

• 1988She Must Be Seeing Things — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1988The Big Blue — Myrna
• 1988The Meadow of Things
• 1986Seduction: The Cruel Woman — Justine
• 1984Committed — Frances Farmer, Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Additional Photography
• 1983Born in Flames — Other leader, Camera Operator
• 1982Ordinary Sentence
• 1981How to Fly
• 1978Inside Out — Director
• 1978Splits