Helen De Michiel
Helen De Michiel | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 28, 1953 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Director Producer Activist Author |
Helen De Michiel (born November 28, 1953) is an American director, producer, media arts advocate, strategist and author whose work includes film, television, multimedia installation and digital transmedia.
Biography
[edit]As a producer, director and writer, her work includes the dramatic feature film Tarantella (1995, starring Mira Sorvino)[1] that toured festivals worldwide and was broadcast nationally on the public television series Independent Lens in 1997. Her documentary: Turn Here Sweet Corn (1990) was broadcast on the PBS series POV in 1993 and continues to be in educational distribution for environmental organizers.[2] As artist-in-residence, she has created participatory media installations, including The Listening Project (1994) for the Walker Art Center[3] and Paying Attention (2003) for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Her documentary, The Gender Chip Project (2006) was created in an innovative participatory process with a cohort of young women studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and is distributed by Women Make Movies.[4][5] Her groundbreaking transmedia episodic documentary, Lunch Love Community (2014) documents the evolution of school lunch reform in Berkeley.[6]
De Michiel was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 2001 to 2007.[7]
Awards
[edit]De Michiel has received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation[8] and the Bush Foundation.[9] An earlier video essay, Consider Anything, Only Don’t Cry (1988) received the "Best New Vision" Golden Gate Award at the 1989 San Francisco International Film Festival.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ Thomas, Kevin (15 March 1996). "'Tarantella' Handles Ethnic Ties That Bind". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "Turn Here Sweet Corn". pbs.org/. PBS. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "The Listening Project". walkerart.org. Walker Art Museum. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ Hoopes, Laura. "The Gender Chip Project". Women in Science. Scitable. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "The Gender Chip Project". Women Make Movies. Women Make Movies. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ Henry, Sarah. "Bay Area Bites". blogs.kqed.org/. KQED. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "The Peabody Awards - George Foster Peabody Awards Board Members". Archived from the original on 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
- ^ "President's Review and Annual Report 1994" (PDF). rockefellerfoundation.org. Rockefeller Foundation. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "Bush Foundation". www.bushfoundation.org/. Bush Foundation. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "Review Summary". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ Zimmerman, Patricia. "Helen De Michiel on New Nodes for Digital Futures". ithaca.edu/. Ithaca College. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
