Born December 11, 1952· Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Emerging from a Philadelphia suburb, Seidelman first studied fashion and art at Drexel before a film-appreciation class redirected her to filmmaking; a short made at NYU earned a Student Academy Award nomination and she later completed an MFA at Tisch, eventually teaching there for over a decade. Her debut feature, the low-budget Smithereens, broke ground as the first American independent film in…