Inside the Beauty Bubble

Cheryl Bookout | Cheryl is a filmmaker and studio artist residing in Joshua Tree, CA. She directed the short documentary film Inside The Beauty Bubble (2021) and produced the award-winning short documentary film Gloria’s Call (2019); the short sci-fi film PURE (2019); and currently producing the feature-length documentary Acting Like Women. Her short narrative film titled Just A Friend is in preproduction and a proof of concept for her sci-fi episodic project, Women Of Steel, will be shot in the summer of 2022. Cheryl is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Chimaera Project, a nonprofit organization championing women and non-binary filmmakers. 

Cheri Gaulke | Cheri is a pioneer in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles. Her work has been presented in film festivals internationally, in museums and a Smithsonian-touring exhibition, alternative settings including buses, churches, and prehistoric temples. Gaulke directed Inside The Beauty Bubble (2021), a short doc about a gay hair salon owner and his roadside attraction in Joshua Tree, California. Her short doc, Gloria’s Call (2018), has screened in over 40 festivals and won Best Documentary at the Ann Arbor Film Festival among other awards. In 2021, she completed Miss Alma Thomas: A Life In Color, a short doc about a little known African-American woman abstract painter, which is already winning awards in film festivals. She is currently in pre-production on her first feature documentary Acting Like Women about 1970s feminist performance art, an under-represented movement that profoundly shaped art and social movements of today.