Rachel Noll James (Born November 21, 1985) is a filmmaker, actress, and screenwriter known for The Storyteller, Don't Pass Me By, Paramnesia, Follow the River. Rachel's first feature film was "

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", a film she wrote, produced, and starred in alongside Hollywood veterans

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and

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. Rachel won Best Feature Writer at the LA Femme Festival for the script, and the film was released worldwide in February 2014Internet Movie Database
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. Rachel also wrote and produced the award winning feature The Storyteller which won her the Silver Prize in the PAGE Screenwriting Awards 2015.
additional text. Rachel also wrote, produced and starred in the award-winning short film Paramnesia that was selected to be a part of the acclaimed horror collective

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Volume 1, which made a splash in the LA festival scene, and was released worldwide in 2015.Dreadcentral.com
additional text. Around the same time, Rachel made her directorial debut with the short film Half Light. This film landed her as a quarter-finalist in the NexTV directing talent search.NexTV.com
additional text. Rachel also wrote and directed the award winning short film Follow the River in 2018.
additional text. Rachel founded Emergence Films in 2015 with producer Sienna Beckman.Emergencefilms.com
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Early life and education

Noll grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and attended

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, where she graduated cum laude with a BA in

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Filmography

Films and television

* ''Comanche Moon'' (2008) (uncredited) * ''

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'' (2009) * ''A Reading of Tristan and Isolde'' (2009) * ''The Interview (Short)'' (2011) * ''Swing It'' (2011) * ''Cross'' (2011) * ''RID'' (2012) * ''Batman Retired'' (2012) * ''Me Without You'' (2013) * ''Don't Pass Me By'' (2013) * ''Epilogue'' (2014) * ''Half Light'' (2014) * ''Entity'' (2014) * ''Paramnesia'' (2014) * ''Fun Size Horror, Volume 1'' (2015) * ''What Did You Say?'' (2015) * ''Eskimo Sisters'' (2015) * ''The Storyteller'' (2017) * ''Zero Point'' (2017) * ''Heroes'' (2017) * ''Risking it All'' (2017) * ''Malibu Road'' (2017) * ''The Caroling Epidemic'' (2017) * ''Follow the River'' (2017)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Noll, Rachel 1985 births Living people American filmmakers