The Filmmakers

Michelle Cove (Director, Writer, Producer)
Michelle is the co-author of national bestseller I'm Not Mad, I just Hate You!: a new understanding of mother-daughter conflict (Viking, 1999), which appeared on several national talk shows including Oprah and the Today Show. She has been writing and editing for national magazines for the past 15 years, including Psychology Today, Mother Earth News, Girls' Life and Family Fun. She is currently a columnist for Single Minded Women (www.singlemindedwomen.com), the online destination for single women. Much of her writing has been focused on empowering girls and women, and she feels this documentary is a natural next step: "The goal of this film is to challenge women to stop thinking about happily-ever-after in terms of princes and picket fences, and get them to start thinking about what happiness looks like now for them as individuals--and how to get it," she says. Michelle also started several national media projects from scratch. In 2003, she created and was Editor-in-Chief of a national magazine for Jewish teens called JVibe. In 2005, she created a blog called Jewesses with Attitude for 20- and 30-something women and, in 2006 she created and is Editor-in-Chief of 614: the HBI ezine, an ezine that deals with hot topics for Jewish young women. Michelle has been leading workshops and lectures for girls and women over the past decade, focusing on building their confidence by handling conflict directly. She is married (she got hitched in her 30s) with a four-year-old daughter Risa, who loves dressing up like a princess (on acid) but so far prefers watching Dora over Cinderella.

Kerry David (Producer)
Kerry produced "Agent Cody Banks 1 & 2", "Perfect Romance" and "My Date with Drew"; the critically acclaimed documentary that garnered a worldwide theatrical release and won multiple awards including the Audience Award for Best Feature at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, Audience Award for Best Feature at the NY Gen Art Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Vail Film Festival, and The Gellar/Devonport Award, The Audience Award for Best Feature and the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival. She recently produced "Like Dandelion Dust" (starring Mira Sorvino & Barry Pepper) to be released by 20th Century Fox, and "Making Miles - The Miles Davis Story" for HBO. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America and BAFTA and is the Founder of Indieproducer.net, a social networking & virtual job market for emerging filmmakers. As for why she was drawn to this documentary, she says, "I think of myself as a strong, independent woman who has been fortunate enough to define 'Happily Ever After' for myself (I'm in a committed relationship with a man and not married); it's not a traditional path, but it is one of my own choosing. This documentary is not a commentary on relationships or judgment about whether women should be single/married, so much as it is a wake up call for all of us to listen in to our authentic selves."

Amy Harmer (Executive Producer)
Amy has been working in advertising for over 18 years as an Account Executive with publishers like Hearst Corporation (Victoria, San Francisco Chronicle ), Condé Nast Publications (Mademoiselle) and the nation's leading business publisher with a global audience of over 22 million people. She has developed successful integrated marketing programs for leading companies like Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Visa and DHL. On why this film matters to her, she says "Like many women, I spent too many years measuring myself up to everyone else's 'happily ever after' checklist and sadly kept falling short--until I realized the only checklist that mattered was my own. I had to get involved because it was about dang time (hey, I'm from Texas) that this generation --and all women for that matter—were inspired to take ownership and start defining 'happily ever after' on their own terms." Amy lives atop Nob Hill in San Francisco with her husband David (whom she married when she was 38 years young).

Janneke Dommisse (Editor)
Janneke Dommisse has been working in reality TV for 11 years, with nine years of experience as an editor.  Her editing credits include the popular doc-style TV shows “Project Runway”, “Making The Band”, “Road Rules Extreme,” and 12 seasons of “The Real World”.  In addition to her cinematic storytelling and character development abilities, she excels in music editing thanks to all her work on MTV productions. While Janneke has considered working on docs in the past, she has been waiting for a project that she could connect with emotionally.  That project turned out to be Seeking Happily Ever After.  As she put it:  “I thought by the time I was 30 I would be married and raising a family in a house on the East Coast.  And here I am--33, unmarried, with a career I love, and living in LA in a house I bought myself.  I am thankful now for all the twists and turns in my life, but it was challenging at times.  I love that 'Seeking Happily Ever After' explores the many options women have today, and empowers them to choose their path to happiness, whether it breaks tradition or not.”

Sherry Moore (Director of Photography)
Sherry Moore, photographer and filmmaker, has experience in multiple aspects of filming and production from concept to implementation. She has worked as freelance video cam operator, freelance photographer, video editor, production manager, associate producer, technical assistant and archival researcher. Credits include: Fire and Steel currently in production; Twisted  Independent Lens 2007; Design Squad PBS; Under the Skin Open Eye Pictures; Lawyer Walks up to the Bar Camelback Films; The Art of Staying Fit (professional boxer training program); Multiple Archival Family Documentaries; Howard Dean campaign videos and still photography. Says Sherry, "This film is about how women are changing the rules and I love that! No lifestyle option is "the way it should be." At most it is just the way it has been. As a gay woman living in Massachusetts I can say the changing lifestyle choices here have been extremely cool. Straight people can choose not to marry and gay people can choose to marry. It's all new and improved and 100 percent all natural."