Melody Gilbert

Melody Gilbert
Residence St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Occupation Independent documentary film director

Melody Gilbert is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker, educator and journalist from St. Paul, Minnesota now stationed in Minneapolis.[1][2][3][4][5] She is co-founder of Darn Good Documentaries, and operates her own independent film production company, Frozen Feet Films.[6]

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Background

Gilbert has worked at television stations in Washington, D.C, New York, Wisconsin, California, Florida and Minnesota, including Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), KSTP-TV and WCCO-TV.[6] She taught broadcast journalism and documentary production at the University of Minnesota,[7] and is currently a visiting professor in Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College. She is an advisory board member of IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts, was a founding member of Minnesota Women in Film and Television, and is founder and President of Minnesota DocuClub.[6]

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Awards and recognition

Gilbert received regional Emmys as producer on Our Bodies/Ourselves (2000) (TPT),[7] and for Battered Lives (1996) (WCCO). She received the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) national award for best series for Defying Tradition: Hmong Teen Brides. Her short documentary Jamie Butcher Dies at Home was shown on ABC's Prime Time Live. She has also won a national award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) for Toxic testing, a short documentary about how the U.S. government sprayed citizens of Minneapolis with toxic chemicals in the 1950s. The documentary prompted an investigation led by the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone.

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References

  1. ^ Maerz, Melissa (September 10, 2003). "Final Cut Pro: With 'Whole,' Twin Cities-based filmaker Melody Gilbert discovers less is more". citypages.com (Citypages). http://www.citypages.com/2003-09-10/news/final-cut-pro&page=59. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  2. ^ Kerr, Euan (March 16, 2007). "Melody Gilbert's trip "Into the Darkness"". Minnesota Public Radio. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/16/urbanexplorers/. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  3. ^ Cisar, Katjusa (March 19, 2008). "WFF2008: Interview with "Urban Explorers" filmmaker Melody Gilbert". dane101.com. http://www.dane101.com/arts/2008/03/19/wff2008_interview_with_urban_explorers_filmmaker_melody_gilbert. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  4. ^ "Melody Gilbert". Minnesota Stories. March 3, 2006. http://www.mnstories.com/archives/2006/03/melody_gilbert.html. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  5. ^ "Iterview with Melody Gilbert". Film Click. 2008. http://www.filmclick.com/index.php?section=film.index&filmid=3051225213278. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  6. ^ a b c "Melody Gilbert official bio". Darn Good Documentaries. http://darngooddocs.com/who-we-are/melody-gilbert/. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  7. ^ a b Rasmussen, Brianne (November 3, 2000). "U journalism students fare well at first Minnesota Emmy Awards". Minnesota Daily. http://old.mndaily.com/articles/2000/11/03/14377. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  8. ^ Weinberg, Scott. "SXSW '05 Interview: 'A Life Without Pain' Director Melody Gilbert". eFilmCritic. http://efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=1373. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  9. ^ "Melody Gilbert - Documentary Filmmaker". Rift Magazine. February 4th, 2009. http://www.riftmagazine.com/?p=547. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  10. ^ Kerr, Euan (March 16, 2007). "Melody Gilbert's trip "Into the Darkness"". Minnesota Public Radio. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/16/urbanexplorers/. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 

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