Media Arts Management
DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE PROGRAMMING
BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION, CA April 2007 - present
Responsible for Creative, Social media , Innovation, and Broadcast content and programming, Grants to producers, Fund development, Fiscal Sponsorship, and Preservation initiatives at BAVC, the largest nonprofit digital media arts center in the US. Director of Macarthur-funded Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, and the Nonprofit Institute for New Media Applications. Oversee deliverables on grant-funded program budget of 1.5million.
DIRECTOR OF MEDIA ARTS AND EDUCATION
BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION, CA March 2004 – April 2007
Responsible for education and professional training, media arts program management, corporate and community partnerships, staff management, curriculum and accreditation, workforce development programs, screening and exhibitions. Curated three ongoing screening series. Responsible for earned income budget of over 1.8million.
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR, FILM ARTS FOUNDATION
FILM ARTS FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA San Francisco, CA 2001, 2002, 2003
Responsible for program selection, administration and fundraising, event coordination, design, writing of program notes, press releases and promotional materials, all aspects of staffing and production of four-day, multi-venue festival, including film screenings with live performance, music and spoken word. Attendance over 10,000.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
OAKLAND FILMMAKER PROJECT, Oakland, CA 2003 - 2006
Responsible for program development, fundraising and administration of this new consortium of Oakland-based film and videomakers dedicated to community activism and social change. Programs of the OFP include the Oakland Filmmaker Festival, the Oakland Youth Arts Training Program and the Oakland Elders Oral History Project.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
GIRL TROUBLE, 2002 - 2003
Associate Producer for award-winning feature documentary GIRL TROUBLE. Responsible for editorial consultation, fundraising and grantwriting, new media initiatives, program planning, special events, curriculum development, publicity, broadcast contracts.
PRODUCER
KQED TELEVISION, San Francisco, CA 1993 – 1994, 2004 - 2007
Worked on three documentary and arts series: Viewpoints, Docs of the Bay, and SPARK!
NALIP 2008: Storytelling and New Media
Sundance 2008: Alternative Storytelling for New Media Platforms
PBS Content Summit 2008: Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
SFMOMA 2007: Preservation in the Digital Age
SF Foundation Center 2007: Fundraising for Independents
NBPC New Media Institute 2007: Digital Trends in Public Media
Women in Film and Television International 2007: New Opportunities/New Media
Center for Social Media 2007: Teaching Documentary
Frameline Persistent Vision 2006: LGBT Content and Emerging Technologies
Q-Me Con 2006: Tech Talk: Digital Production and Post
Independent Television Service, LGBT Advisory Panel
Frameline, Board of Directors 2001 – 2007 (1.4m Capital Campaign 2006/7)
SF Cinematheque, Advisory Board 2007 – present
Witness, Advisory Board, 2006 – present
SF Mayor's Digital Media Advisory Council, 2005 - 2007
Critical Images, Board of Directors, 2004 – present
SF Cinematheque, Board of Directors 1999 – 2001
Bay Area Women in Film and Television, Member
DIRECTOR
SAN FRANCISCO CHILDREN’S OUTDOOR THEATER FESTIVAL 1987 - 1989
Developed and directed three Children’s Outdoor Theater Festivals under the auspices of the San Francisco Artists-in-Schools program. Translated and scripted Afro-cuban folktales for live performance at San Francisco city schools and after-school programs. Responsible for all directing and rehearsal of students, staging, scoring, marketing and publicity.
ASSISTANT PROGRAM DIRECTOR
NEW PERFORMANCE GALLERY 1984 - 1986
Responsible for curatorial, development and marketing support. Wrote & administered major grants to NEA, CAC, and private foundations. Assisted Executive Director with national programming of new dance, theater and multi-media performances including Mark Morris, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Tim Miller, Charles Moulton, Jane Comfort, Eiko and Koma, among others. Curated “black box” series of emerging bay area performance artists. Wrote press releases & brochure copy for special events and season premieres. Coordinated activities of two resident dance companies, box office, dance school, guest artists and volunteers. Assisted with Board activities and development.
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
ODC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1983
Responsible for curatorial, development and marketing support. Wrote & administered major grants to NEA, CAC, and private foundations. Wrote press releases & brochure copy for special events and season premieres.
LECTURER, 1994 – present
CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
UC BERKELEY EXTENSION PROGRAM
Responsible for teaching courses and curriculum development in cinema and new media studies and production at the undergraduate and graduate levels -- detailed curriculum vitae available upon request
CHAIR, DOCUMENTARY FEATURES PANEL
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Responsible for pre-screening narrative feature entries and administration, selection and award recommendation for feature length documentary category for the San Francisco International Film Festival.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO 1995 - 1998
Responsible for teaching courses and curriculum development in cinema studies, screenwriting and production at the community college level -- detailed curriculum vitae available upon request
The Religious Felon: Jews in Prison, feature documentary, in progress
Pie Queen, 2002
Three Days on Pineapple Street, feature script, 2000
“swim, swim…” talking to sperm and other desperate acts, 1996
Naomi’s Legacy, 1994
Birthday Party at Repetition Café, 1992
Suspenders, 1990
Union Rescue: Stories of Renovation and Recovery, 1989
Sundance Film Festival, “swim, swim…”
Best of Women in the Director’s Chair World Tour, “swim, swim…”
Best of Women Make Movies Screening at Lincoln Center, “swim, swim…”
PBS Women of Vision Series, Naomi’s Legacy
Award Winner, National Jewish Video Competition, Naomi’s Legacy
Princess Grace Foundation Award/The Cary Grant Film Award, Naomi’s Legacy
First Prize, National Poetry Film Festival, Suspenders
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Prize, Best Graduate Experimental Film, Suspenders
Los Angeles Art & Humanitarian Award, Union Rescue
National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, March 2007
San Francisco Chronicle, September 2000
CREATIVE SCREENWRITING, Spring 1996
San Francisco State University, MFA in Cinema, 1994
Oberlin College, AB, 1982
major in Folklore and Ethnopoetics
minor in Theater