Debra Knox is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, actress, director, and musician. Her film Hearing Voices has won eleven International awards including Critics Choice, The New York Women's Festival, 8 & Halfilm Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival and Fierce Women Festival of Paris, and has been a semi-finalist for 13 International Festivals. Her script Orson Welles Ashes has been awarded 15 major awards including The Golden Palm Award, New York's Empire Award and The California Award and The Beverly Hills Film Festival. She is a guitarist, pianist and vocalist teaching and performing in The San Francisco Bay Area where she directs, films and writes.