Virginia Bogert

Filmmaker, Co-Founder/Director - Post Alley Film Festival

Virginia Bogert has directed, written, edited and produced award-winning media for three decades from features, shorts, and commercials, to corporate, documentaries and television. Her company, Laughing Dog Pictures LLC., focuses on human rights issues and the Arts. Her many credits include documentaries for Public Television: “Pike Place Market: Soul of a City”, which garnered six Emmys and 3 Tellys; “Healing a Soldier’s Heart”, “ The Hands that Feed Us”; and programs for MoPop, as Director of Film & Media. Her romantic comedy “The Delivery”, a SIFF Fly Film, won Best Short at Port Townsend Film Festival. “Tootie Pie”, a dramatic short, premiered at Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), screened at Langston Hughes Center, and is broadcast on PBS. Virginia was a SIFF juror and producer for SIFF’s Fly Films. She has created countless Microsoft case studies, documentaries for National Endowment for the Arts (American Masterworks), videos for MTV, The Today Show, and the Food Channel. Her United Nations PSA was distributed world-wide. Virginia holds a BA in English, an MS in Media Ecology from NYU and Certification in Educational TV from SUNY. She’s  President Emerita of Women in Film Seattle, a member since 1990, and is co-founder and director of the woman-centric Post Alley Film Festival. Virginia also teaches documentary filmmaking and is advisor to University of Washington and Seattle Film Institute.