Virginia Bogert

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 and the Arts. Her many credits include documentaries for PBS:  Pike Place Market: Soul of a City  which garnered six Emmys and a Telly; Healing a Soldier's Heart, and Fields of Plenty which won a 1st prize Telly. She developed 30 national and international video programs for MoPop, during her tenure as Director of Film & Media; case studies for Microsoft, videos for MTV, and field produced for The Today Show and the Food Channel.

She has created documentaries for National Endowment for the Arts (American Masterworks) and her PSA, Spoonman for the United Nations, was distributed worldwide winning a 1st prize Telly. Virginia’s romantic comedy The Delivery, a SIFF Fly Film, won Best Short at Port Townsend Film Festival. Tootie Pie, her dramatic short, premiered at Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), screened at Langston Hughes Black Film Festival, and is broadcast on PBS.

Virginia holds a BA in English, a Masters in Media Ecology/Communications from NYU. She is President Emerita of Women in Film Seattle, a member since 1990, and is director/curator of the female-centric Post Alley Film Festival. Virginia is an advisor to University of Washington and Seattle Film Institute, and a member of the Seattle Film Task Force, focusing on equity and inclusion and supporting the film industry in Washington.