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FILM, VIDEO & MULTIMEDIA WORK

FREELANCE PRODUCER & EDITOR
New York / New Jersey, 2010 - present
- Producer and Editor, Boston Teacher Residency, promotional video
- Associate Producer and Editor, WGBH, Teachers' Domain, Cyberlearning Collection
- Assistant Editor, Freed Pictures

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
WGBH, Teachers Domain, Boston, MA, 2005 - 2010
Produced and edited over 100 five-minute web-based video segements and interactive activities correlating to K-12 curriculum content standards. Coordinated acquisition of source material, rights clearance, and preparation for web launch. For samples, click 1, 2, or 3.

EDITOR
Studio 7 Arts, Screening Room with Robert Gardner, Cambridge, MA, 2004 - 2006
Re-versioned and color-corrected episodes of 1970s television interview series for DVD. Prepared final sequences for DVD authoring.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, ASSISTANT EDITOR
Resolute Films for WGBH/FRONTLINE, Dangerous Prescription, Boston, MA, 2002 – 2003
Sole support staff for production. Researched content, conducted pre-interviews, gripped, and coordinated shoots, travel and deliverables. As assistant editor, assembled sequences, digitized and logged material, and created over 50 motion graphics.

CO-EDITOR
My Brilliant Chimps: Raising Keeli and Ivy, Boston, MA, 2002 – 2003
Resolute Films for Discovery Science Channel
Edited scenes, coordinated editing schedule for three editors, and digitized, logged and organized over 40 hours of footage.


INDEPENDENT WORK

CO-DIRECTOR
Canine Reverie, Clever Girls Collaborative,
Boston, MA, 2010
Directed scenes for animated film to accompany Concerning the Doodle, a new composition performed live by the Bang on a Can All-Stars at the Kaufman Center on February 24, 2010.

EDITOR, CO-DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER
Estranhos Poemas: Escritos de Claudina Pereira,
Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2008
(Strange Poems: The Writings of Claudina Pereira)
Collaboratively developed, directed, filmed, and edited experimental documentary. Screened at Balagan Film Series at Harvard University's Carpenter Center in November 2009.

CO-DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER
ABRAÇO: Pequenas Ações Terroristas (HUG: Small Terrorist Acts),
Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2008
Developed, directed and photographed live-action animation sequence and contributed footage for the closing video of a year-long performance art piece.

ANIMATION WORKSHOP LEADER
Developed and led a 2-day animation workshop for children in an indigenous Guarani village in Southeast Brazil, 2008.

GUEST CURATOR - Animated Documentary Programs
- DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, BC Canada 2006
- AnimaDoc, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Boston, MA 2006
- New England Animation Bash, Coolidge & Brattle Theatres, Boston, MA 2004
- Balagan Experimental Film & Video Series, Boston, MA 2004


BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

OPERATIONS MANAGER
Editshare, Boston, MA, 2004
Assisted the launch of a new business venture offering a networked storage product for editing workgroups. Wrote and designed marketing materials and press releases, coordinated trade-show logistics and direct mail campaigns, developed sales database, and maintanied web site.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Low Income Investment Fund, Oakland, CA, 1999 - 2001
Wrote dozens of proposals and grant reports, devised strategies for funder solicitation and cultivation, and managed grants for national community development financial institution.

PROGRAM AND FUNDRAISING CONSULTANT (Volunteer, AJWS)
Rural Institute for Development Education, Kanchipuram, India, 1997 - 1998
Secured funding and developed programs and fundraising systems for local non-governmental organization working to improve the lives of the rural poor in Tamil Nadu, India.

SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Progressive Asset Management, Oakland, CA, 1996 – 1997
Coordinated solicitation efforts for multiple get-out-the-vote campaigns to pass shareholder resolutions holding corporations accountable to human rights and environmental standards. Researched and evaluated corporations according to their social responsibility track records.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE

CO-COORDINATOR
Media Mentors, Women in Film & Video/New England, 2003 - 2008
Designed and implemented new mentorship program for women filmmakers.

BOARD MEMBER
Women in Film & Video New England, 2004 - 2006

PUBLICATIONS

Loud Paper Magazine: "Driving with the Stranger," Feature Article, Vol. 4, No. 1

DOXA Documentary Film & Video Festival program: "Animated Documentaries"

EDUCATION

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, graduated 1994
B.A., International Studies

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, school-year 1992-93

Future Media Concepts, Boston, MA, 2010
Adobe After Effects

Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 1999 - 2002
Courses: Final Cut Pro, Documentary Filmmaking, Super-8 Film Production,
Film Direction, Documentary History, and Writing for Documentaries

Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA 2001
Coursework: Interviewing Techniques and Lighting for Interviews

International Film & TV Workshops, Rockport, ME, July 2001
Four-Week Film School

References available upon request.