36 - Peggy Stern

Peggy Stern, is an Academy Award-winning film Producer/Director who has been working for more than 30 years in the film industry. She is Founder, and CEO, of Dyslexiaville, Inc. and has run Gladeyes Films, a transmedia production company since 1985. Her dyslexia led her to filmmaking and animation at a young age. In March 2006 Stern won the Oscar for Best Animated Short the brilliant ‘The Moon and the son’ staring John Torturro.

Stern has produced for PBS, HBO and Teachers College at Columbia University, The National PTA, and National YWCA among others. In her role as Dyslexiaville's founder, Stern engages with children, parents & teachers and speaks at conferences across the United States.

She received her BA from Harvard University and her senior thesis film ‘STEPHANIE’, was turned into a PBS documentary Special and broadcast nationally.

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