Fear Not Fear Itself

Dawn Westlake

Dawn is president of Ron de Cana Prods., Inc. in Los Angeles. This is her 24th short under her Ron de Cana banner. Her work has played on all 7 continents (yes, even Antarctica) and won more than 100 awards, including honors from Canon USA, Inc., JVC-Tokyo and MyAirBridge. Dawn is also an actress/writer/producer and has been on the jury of the SediciCorto Film Fest in Forli, Italy, the ECU Film Festival in Paris, France, M Film Festival in Matosinhos, Portugal, the Chicago Shorts Film Fest jury in Chicago, Illinois and the Red Rock Film Fest pre-selection committee in Moab, Utah. She speaks English and Spanish fluently and is proficient in Italian and Portuguese. Dawn graduated first in her class with a B.S. degree in Radio-TV-Film from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She has been married for 35 years to Bruce Rheins, a retired producer and bureau chief for CBS News. In 2013, she directed “Look Who’s Stalking”, a series for the BIO Network at NBCUniversal in Los Angeles. It aired in March & April 2013. Dawn has been honored with retrospectives of her work in London at the Portobello Film Festival, at the Fellini Foundation in Rimini (Italy), and at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. In 2024, her musical poetry film “For the Skeptical” (2022) was invited into the Blinken OSA Archives in Budapest, Hungary as “…an important work related to the history of the Cold War and international human rights violations”. www.dawnwestlake.com