Tula Asselanis

Writer, producer, and director Tula Asselanis is most well known in the film world for her 1996 documentary I, DOLL: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA’S 11’1/2” SWEETHEART. After graduating from San Francisco State University and the Art Center College of Design, she worked as an art director for twelve years at various agencies, including Ketchum Advertising. Asselanis has also spent time writing, producing, and directing video catalogs and industrial films, and her commercial work includes television ads for Baskin Robbins and Bank of America. I, DOLL screened at various venues and festivals internationally, including the Belarus Women’s Film Festival, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Northwest Film Center in Portland, the Dallas Video Festival, KTEH San Jose Public Television, the Central Florida Film Festival, the Golden Shower Festival in San Antonio, Cornell Cinema in Ithaca, the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco, and at the Chicago International Film Festival, where it won Second Place. (08/09)

I, Doll
A film by Tula Asselanis, 1996, 57 min., Color
There are more Barbie Dolls* in the U.S. than human beings. Barbie was fashioned after a German prostitute doll named "Lilli." These are just two of...