Entrepreneur, writer, actress and life-long optimist, LG has pursued the road less traveled as her father gravely predicted.  After merging and acquiring companies for an investment bank, LG took a leap of faith and pursued a career in the entertainment industry.  Sixteen years later with twenty writing properties, she is still just as passionate about the industry as when she first stood in a long line in the East Village for an open call theatre audition.  In addition to screenplays, she has written novels, one of which was published called: www.stopthemamasboys.com.  The Canadians are a big fan of LG’s.  For several months, she was recruited to write a column on being single in Los Angeles for Torontonians. Her dry wit peppering her bleeding heart became her writing trademark, leading to a large fan base of Canadian men and women. 
    LG has a way of looking at her experiences as though they were a diamond in the rough, and it is this way of thinking that has made her life so meaningful.  Four months ago, after having lost her day job, she enrolled at a temporary agency, in hopes of getting a job in a studio. Instead, LG walked out with a job for a leading neurosurgeon. It was through this serendipitous moment, that LG developed a passion for the brain and its wonderment.  It was this passion that led her to create a neuroscience company called: Neuro.RAPT, which will be rolled out in the Late Fall of 2011.  After spending hours in the library reading articles and books on the brain, LG attended an event at the Broad Theater called: Music and the Mind where they juxtaposed classical music and neuroscience.  It was this combination of art and science that inspired her to incorporate neuroscience into the film festival. If we understand our brains, we can better understand ourselves and if we understand ourselves, we can better understand others and perhaps take our art to a whole other level we never dreamed possible. LG is a staunch supporter of the Topanga Film Festival.  It is authentic, and fosters unbridled creativity.  In a town where conventional story is rewarded, the Topanga Film Festival and the Topanga Institute sustains her creative spirit.