Juliet Bashore

She is best known for her award-winning feature film Kamikaze Hearts (1986), a pseudo-documentary set in the Golden Age of Porn in San Francisco.

[2] After her studies, Bashore worked as an intern on George Csicsery’s film Television, The Enchanted Mirror (1981).

It was based on the lives of two women lovers, Sharon Mitchell and Tigr Mennett, working in the pornography industry in San Francisco’s Golden Age.

[4][5] Jonathan Rosenbaum called the film "alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating".

[7][8][9] Her production company, Modern Cartoons, based in Venice, Los Angeles, was concentrated on the development of virtual reality hardware and software, and produced a number of groundbreaking works utilizing motion sensor technology including in 1998 the first virtual character (a cartoon doll based on Truman Capote) to appear live in real-time before a television audience, followed by a series for PBS Television, as well as a feature for Miramax Films.