Cheryl Bookout is a filmmaker and studio artist residing in Joshua Tree, CA. Bookout directed the 2021 award-winning short documentary film “Inside the Beauty Bubble” and produced the 2022 short narrative film “Just a Friend” which is currently entering the 2023-2024 film festival circuit. In 2019 she produced two award-winning films, the short documentary “Gloria’s Call” and a short sci-fi narrative “PURE.” She is currently producing a feature-length documentary “Acting Like Women.”

“Women of Steel” is Cheryl’s first narrative screenplay and it has been winning awards in competitions: Finalist 2021 Screencraft screenplay competition; Official Selection 2021 Sherman Oaks Film Festival; Semi-Finalist 2021 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards; Quarter Finalist 2022 Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest; Nominee Best Screenplay 2022 Sensei Film Festival; Nominee 2022 Lonely Wolf Festival; and Finalist 2023 Berlin FilmHaus Festival.