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Education
Columbia University, B.A.
English Literature (Phi Beta Kappa)
University of Chicago, M.A. European History
Harvard University, Five Year Prize Fellowship, M.A.,
European History
Languages
Passable German,
bad Spanish, worse French
Experience
1982-2001 |
Founder,
Newsreel: Media Construction and Deconstruction.
(now known as Blinktank)
Make documentaries about people, processes and
institutions in New England. Teach media  production
techniques and media literacy concepts at media
centers, schools, after school programs and community
media facilities throughout the state.
Production. Numerous
documentaries produced in film and shown on cable
and public television.
Conservation of Matter, a documentary on the recycling
of Boston's elevated subway line, was funded by
the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities,
the LEF Foundation, a New England Regional Film/Video
fellowship and WGBH-TV. It has been licensed for
broadcast by WGBH-TV.
Education.
Courses have included Basic and Advanced Digital
Video Production, Basic Filmmaking with Super
8; Editing Styles and Techniques; Sound Editing
Techniques; Interviewing Techniques; The Documentary
Experience; Images and Sounds, Deconstructing
TV news; The Commercial, etc.
Newsreel
Expansion. In the spring of 2000, newsreel
was expanded to become a collective of seven media
producers, analysts and educators who meet monthly
to plan collaborations and maintain a website
Current Independent Production
Plastic. A documentary on the
culture of debt. Co-produced by Jasmin Sung, funded
by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
(in progress).
Shooting the Strangler's
Wife. A documentary on the making of a 35mm
Roger Corman/Cityscape Media Education exploitation
film. Co-produced by Molly Froelich, Stacy Sheehan,
Rod Williams (in progress). |
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Recent Educational
Initiatives |
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Video Games Workshop. In development.
Co-developers Brenda Matthis; Jasmin Sung. Game
expert: Jamie Miletsky. A hands on workshop which
will demystify video games for intimidated parents
and teachers, and assist them in game evaluation.
Images & Sounds: An introduction.
A three hour workshop to introduce media literacy
concepts to beginning community video producers.
Developed for the Boston Neighborhood Network.
Documentary Immersion. A twelve
hour workshop in the history of documentary styles
and techniques, from Nanook of the North to MTV's
The Real World. Developed for the Boston Film/Video
Foundation. The Documentary in Action.
A hands-on six months long workshop in which students
and teacher collaborate on a documentary. Developed
for Cityscape Motion Picture Education. |
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School, After School
and Media Center Workshops Developed and Taught |
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Boston Neighborhood Network
Boston University College of Communication
Cambridge Community Television
Cape Cod Community Television (C3TV)
Devine Elementary School, Randolph, MA
Dorchester Neighborhood House
Essex Elementary School, Randolph, MA
Edward Devotion School, Brookline, MA
Hatherly School, Scituate, MA
J.F. Kennedy Library, Dorchester, MA
Lowell Access Television
Paradise City Community Television, Northampton,
MA
Pittsfield Public Access
ROCA (Reach Out to Chelsea Adolescents), Chelsea,
MA
Showa Women's Institute, Boston, MA
Timilty Middle School, Boston, MA
University of Massachusetts Boston
William Howard Taft Middle School, Brighton,
MA
Youth Voice Collaborative, Boston, MA
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| 1990-2001 |
Video
Production for Clients
The Boston Children's Museum
The Boston Public Library
Eastern Research Group, Inc.
Harvard University
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Ocean Challenge, Inc.
The Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts
WGBH Television
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1983-1989 |
Access Coordinator, Boston Neighborhood Network
(BNN-TV). |
1971-1981 |
Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Boston
Public Schools
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Awards/Honors
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- Winner, Judges Grand Prize
and Audience Choice Award in the 1997 U.S.
Super 8mm Film/Video Festival (Conservation
of Matter).
- Winner, Best Editing in
the 1996 New England Film/Video Festival (Conservation
of Matter).
- Recipient, pre-production,
production and post production grants, Massachusetts
Foundation for the Humanities. (Conservation
of Matter, 1993, 1997, Plastic,
1999.)
- Winner, Documentary Public
Awareness award in the 1986 Hometown, USA
Video contest (Fanyard Wharf).
- Member, National Endowment
for the Arts Advisory Committee on Arts Education
(1990).
- Member, Media Institution
Grants Funding Panel, Massachusetts Cultural
Council (1998).
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