Films by Filmmaker

Mercedes Coats

MERCEDES COATS has directed and produced the award-winning documentaries Little Stars, about the unpredictable and challenging world of child actors, and Seoul II Soul, about a Korean/African-American family in post-riot Los Angeles (National PBS premiere presented by CAAM, Feb 2002). Her work has been seen on PBS, in educational video series for the California Science Center and others, and in family films and television seen on Showtime and distributed theatrically by Sony Pictures. She is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Alfred P. Sloan Award, an Entertainment Weekly production grant, and the Women in Film/Paramount Pictures Crystal Award.

Mercedes collaborated with producing partner, S. Leo Chiang, on To You Sweetheart, Aloha which premiered at the Hawaii International Film Festival, won the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in 2005, and aired on PBS in 2006.

She earned her MFA in Film Production from the USC School of Cinema-Television in 1998, and holds a BA in Theater from Occidental College.