With recognition from Cannes, Seidelman became a member of the first wave of 80s-era independent filmmakers in the American cinema. Smithereens captured the look of the post-punk music scene and was the first American independent film to be selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It was shot on 16mm for $40,000 on location, at times "guerrilla style" on the streets and in the subways of New York. Seidelman made her feature-film debut with Smithereens (1982), a bleak and darkly humorous look at New York City's downtown Bohemian scene of the 1980s. Seidelman earned an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is an adjunct professor in the school's film department, overseeing students' thesis films. Her first foray into movie-making at New York University resulted in a Student Academy Award Nomination for her satirical short film about a housewife's affair, And You Act Like One Too. After taking a film appreciation class where she was inspired by the French New Wave, particularly the films of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, as well as Ingmar Bergman, she switched her focus to filmmaking.
She graduated from Abington Senior High School in 1969, and studied fashion and arts at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Seidelman was born on Decem in Abingdon, Pennsylvania and raised in a suburb of Philadelphia, the oldest daughter of a hardware manufacturer and a teacher.
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