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Today I am thrilled to interview Sally Colón-Petree, Director of the exhilarating film, “Women Like Us”.  In her film, Sally chronicles the the interviews of Catt Sadler, with powerful women leaders like Ida Betty Odinga, First Lady of Kenya and Dianne Hudson, Executive Producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Women change makers who will inspire you to step into your own leadership and create expansive change in your own community.

Sally is an award winning Puerto Rican Filmmaker from Chicago who relocated to Los Angeles in 1996 to pursue her career in the entertainment industry. Soon after arriving in LA, Sally was hired by MTV Networks as a contestant coordinator. She then went on to pursue acting and was featured in several television shows, national commercials and hosted television for several years. In 2004, Sally launched Dream On Productions, a Los Angeles based, female-driven boutique Production Company. Her first project was the reality show, “Tour TV”, followed by several films, music videos. In 2014, Sally made her directorial debut with the feature documentary, “Women Like Us”, featuring Catt Sadler, Sherri Shepherd and music by Grammy nominated artist, MOBY. In 2017 WLU premiered at the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival.  Since the premiere, WLU has been screened in over 100 theaters across the country, starting conversations about gender equality, with Gathr Films as the distributor. Sally is in post production on her second feature documentary, “Puerto Rico Se Levanta”, (working title), chronicling the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the resilience and history of the Puerto Rican people, and has started writing her first script based on a true story.