Dawn Westlake is President of Ron de Caña Productions, Inc. in Los Angeles, California, USA. She graduated at the top of her class from Northwestern University's Radio-TV-Film program and was th ...Show More
Dawn Westlake is President of Ron de Caña Productions, Inc. in Los Angeles, California, USA. She graduated at the top of her class from Northwestern University's Radio-TV-Film program and was the winner of the university's Richter Scholarship for a thesis she wrote on TV3, Televisió de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). She won the Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for a televised interview with former President Jimmy Carter on the subject of international human rights violations. As a filmmaker, she's made sixteen short films since 2000 in the U.S., Spain, France, and Portugal which have won 44 international awards, collectively, and which have played at hundreds of festivals and venues around the world. Westlake is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Italian and Portuguese. Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Hindu and Farsi. She was the president of the jury for the SediciCorto Film Festival in Forli, Italy in October 2007, and a member of the ECU Film Festival Jury in Paris, France in March 2008 and the SediciCorto Film Festival Jury in October 2008 and the Chicago Shorts Film Festival in April 2014. She directed the TV series "Look Who's Stalking" for NBC Universal which aired on the BIO Network in 2013. Hide
