Sisters in Cinema - Yvonne Welbon: Resume

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EDUCATION 2001 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Ph.D. awarded December 2001, Department of Radio/TV/Film Dissertation: "Sisters in Cinema: Case Studies of Three First-Time Achievements Made by African American Women Directors in the 1990s." 1994 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Master of Fine Arts awarded May 1994, concentration in film and video. Thesis Film: Missing Relations Thesis: "The Making, Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition of Daughters of the Dust: A Case Study." 1984 - 1985 National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Mandarin Chinese language study 1980 - 1984 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Bachelor of Arts in History awarded May 1984 WORKSHOP EDUCATION • Writer's Guild of America- Minority Writer's Workshop, Los Angeles (2002) • The American Film Institute, Directing Workshop for Women, Los Angeles (2001) • Sundance Institute - Documentary Fellow, Sundance, Utah (2001) • PBS/CPB Producer's Academy, Boston, MA (2001) • Sundance Institute - Producing Fellow, Sundance, Utah (2000) to top of page
SELECTED AWARDS Illinois Arts Council - Award in Media Arts (2005) Chicago Artist-in-Residence Fellowship – CSRPC - University of Chicago (2003) 2003 Best Documentary · Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Sisters in Cinema Dr. Beverly Robinson Renaissance Award - 5th Denver Pan African Film Festival Audience Award - African Diaspora Film Festival (2003) - Sisters in Cinema 2003 Women in Film Award - St. Louis International Film Festival Women in the Director's Chair ACTION! Award (2003) American Film Institute Grant (2001) - The Taste of Dirt Illinois Humanities Council Grant (2000 - 2001) Sisters in Cinema 2001 GLAAD Media Award - Outstanding Documentary Video · Living With Pride Illinois Arts Council - Finalist Award in Media Arts (2000) University Film and Video Association, Carole Fielding Grant (2000) Sisters in Cinema Ten Best Documentary Awards (1999- 2000) - Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 The Tzabaco/Frameline Completion Fund (1999), Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media (1998), Living With Pride Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation (1998 -9), Living With Pride Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (1997) Chicago International Film Festival, Intercom ( 1996) Silver Hugo, Remembering Wei Yi-fang The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media (1996) Remembering Wei Yi-fang Chicago International Film Festival, Intercom (1995) Certificate of Merit, Missing Relations School of the Art Institute MFA Traveling Fellowship, Missing Relations (1994) Sidney Poitier Emerging Black Filmmaker Fellowship, Remembering (1993) Center for New Television/NEA-AFI Regional Fellowship, Remembering (1993) 17th Annual Festival of Illinois Film and Video Artists (1992), Best Documentary, Monique to top of page
WORK EXPERIENCE 1991 - Present Producer/Owner/Consultant, Our Film Works An Illinois corporation founded primarily to produce films which create a stronger media presence for African American women. 1997 - 1999 Segment Producer, Split Screen John Pierson's New York based show on independent film. Broadcast on the Independent Film Channel and Bravo. 1990 - 92 Associate Editor, The Business Word, Chicago Telocator, the personal communications industry association publication 1985 - 90 Founder/Publisher, Bang Taipei City Magazine, Taipei, Taiwan Developed advertising, design, distribution, editorial, and marketing & promotions to create Taipei's first English language city magazine. It began as an eight-page oversized newsprint quarterly and evolved to a 48 - 56 page color monthly. Managed all financial aspects of the company and 25 - 35 staff members and contributors. to top of page
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2005 Visiting Instructor Cinema and Media Studies - "Black Queer Media(makers)" University of Chicago Fall 2003 Visiting Assistant Professor Cinema and Media Studies - "Sisters in Cinema" University of Chicago Seminar Leader - "Contextualizing America: Exploring Media Influences" University of Chicago - Collegiate Scholars Program Summer 1998 Workshop Leader, Video Storytelling Ohio Arts Council Summer Media Institute Spring 1997 Instructor - Film as Business Northwestern University College; Created course and companion website Fall 1996 Teaching Assistant - Producing Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Summer 1996 Instructor, Video Production Gallery 37 (Chicago); Taught video/website production to teens, aged 14-18. Fall 1993 Teaching Assistant, Basic Video The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1991 - 92 Chinese Language Instructor Tutored students in elementary Mandarin Chinese, Chicago 1984 - 87 ESL Instructor Taught English to Taiwanese adults and children, Taipei, Taiwan to top of page
SELECTED PANELS AND LECTURES 2006 Crash: A Viewing and Discussion – University of Chicago Visiting Artist – University of Illinois-Urbana, Northwestern University, Governor’s State University, Middlebury College 2004 Sisters in Cinema - Television Critics Week - Los Angeles Fundraising and Distribution - Webster University - St. Louis Sistah Cinema: African Women in Filmmaking - Denver Pan African Film Fest Queer Filmmakers of Color - Queer Lounge - Sundance Film Festival Where's Her Voice? Black Women Filmmakers and Hip-Hop Culture Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture - University of Chicago Brother Outsider - University of Chicago Visiting Artist - Temple University, University of Deleware, SUNY- Albany, Columbia College, Chicago, University of Rochester, Kenwood Academy, DePaul University, UCSD, Young Chicago Authors, Northwestern 2003 Conformity and Resistance: Writing for Film National Black Writer's Conference, Brooklyn, New York Frameline's Close-Up: Interview with Cheryl Dunye Castro Theater, San Francisco Hindsight is 20/20: Producer's Tell How They Would Do it All Over Again Cleveland International Film Festival Reaching an Audience With Your Independent Film, Cleveland International Film Festival Her Stories: Issues for Women in Documentary Film, Columbia College Chicago Is There a Need For Women's Media (Anymore)? Women in the Director's Chair 22nd Annual International Film Festival African American Women in Feature Filmmaking - Pan African Film Festival Visiting Artist -Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia College Chicago, Cleveland State, Indiana University, Bloomington 2002 Exercises in Leadership - IBM Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference, NY Financial Foundations for Filmmakers - Women in the Director's Chair Getting Your Work Out Into the World - AIVF and The Video Databank "Redefining Media Images of Black Women: A Personal Journey" Smith College Women Directors of Color African American Women in Cinema Conference, NY Film Panel Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writer's Conference Visiting Artist Vassar College, Smith College, Antioch University, Ohio State University, York University, Northwestern University 2001 "Deliverance: The Business of Distribution" Persistent Vision Conference, San Francisco "Climbing Out of the Girl Ghetto" Lake Placid Film Festival "Roles for Women: Indie and Beyond" Boston International Women's Film Festival "Producer's Forum" Atlanta Film & Video Festival "The State of Black Independent Cinema" Sundance Film Festival "Reel Women: A Global Body of Work" Purdue University, Calumet 2000 "Racing the Real" Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago "Writing African American Women into Film History;" University of Wisconsin, Madison "From Words Into Pictures: A Seminar on Writing the Independent Film" Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison "Celluloid History: Documentary Strategies in Films on Queer History" The Future of the Queer Past: A Transnational History Conference, The University of Chicago "Lesbian Filmmaking and Beyond" Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema "Representing the Race - Queer Images of Blackness" Black Queer Studies in the Millennium Conference, UNC - Chapel Hill "The Role of Film Festivals in the World of Filmmakers" Columbia College Chicago 1999 "Home" Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival, Chicago "Women, Visual Media, and Cultural Production" Scripps College, Claremont, CA "A Historical Overview of Feature Film Production by African American Women" The Chicago Historical Society to top of page
SELECTED PANELS AND LECTURES (continued) 1998 "Black Spectatorship" - Panel Respondent Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, California "Borders and Border Crossings: Interdisciplinary and Transnational `Dialogues and Empirical Practices" - Remembering Wei Yi-fang... Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island "Women in Shorts;" The Tillie K. Lubin Symposium Brandies University, Waltham, MA "Using the Internet for Documentary Pre-production" Antioch Summer Documentary Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio "Documentary Development" Women in the Director's Chair Salon Series, Chicago 1997 "Race and Identity in Contemporary Art & Literature" University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana "The Future of Black Filmmaking : Producing" Black Harvest Film Festival, The Film Center, Chicago "Black Lesbian Film and Video Artists for Beginners" Indiana University, Bloomington University of California, Santa Barbara 1996 "African American Filmmaking Today" Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro, Italy "From Daughters of the Dust to Waiting to Exhale" Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois "Fifteen Years of Women's Media" Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago 1995 "Feminisms," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Tribute to African American Cinema DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago 1993 "Sistah Action!" San Francisco Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival "The Other Queer Cinema" Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana to top of page

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