Yvonne Welbon
Yvonne Welbon is an American independent film director, producer and screenwriter based in Chicago.
Biography
Welbon has directed eight films and produced a dozen others. Her work has been screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, BET, the Sundance Channel and in over one hundred film festivals around the world. Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 won ten best documentary awards—including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Her ongoing Sundance Documentary Fellow project is Sisters in Cinema,[1] a documentary, website and forth-coming book based on her doctoral dissertation about the history of African American women feature film directors.
Her producer credits include: John Pierson's Split Screen, Zeinabu Irene Davis' Sundance dramatic competition feature Compensation,[2] Cheryl Dunye's HBO film Stranger Inside,[3] Thomas Allen Harris' Berlin International Film Festival award-winning documentary É Minha Cara (That's My Face),[4] and Catherine Crouch's directorial debut Stray Dogs.[5]
Recently produced documentaries include: Scale, by Alex Juhasz,[6] GARBAGE! The Revolution Starts at Home, by Andrew Nisker,[7] and The Water Front, by Liz Miller.[8]
Welbon received an undergraduate degree in History from Vassar College. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and founded and published an arts magazine. She returned to the United States and completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's, Directing Workshop for Women.
Welbon is the current department chair and an assistant professor in the Journalism and Media Studies department at Bennett College for Women, a women's HBCU in Greensboro, NC. She has been teaching at Bennett since August 2008.
Filmography
Director
- Monique (1991)
- The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash (1992)
- Sisters in the Life: First Love (1993)
- Missing Relations (1994)
- Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself (1996)
- Split Screen (TV series, 1997)
- Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999)
- The Taste of Dirt (2003)
- Sisters in Cinema (2003)
Producer
- Monique (1991)
- One Small Step (1999)
- Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999)
- Stray Dogs (2003)
- Sisters in Cinema (2003)
Selected Articles
- Ehrenstein, David. Sisters with Cameras. The Advocate, February 17, 2004.
- Lindsey, Craig D. 'Sisters' gives Fascinating Insight. The News & Observer, February 6, 2004.
- Moss, Marilyn. Sisters in Cinema. The Hollywood Reporter, February 6, 2004.
- Sumner, Jane. Filmmaker finds 'Sisters' in cinema but not Hollywood, Dallas Morning News, February 6, 2004.
- Bianco, Robert. Critics Corner- What to Watch This Weekend. USA Today. February 5, 2004.
- Mertes, Cara. Yvonne Welbon: The Indies' Own Self-Help Guru, The Independent, March 2003 Koehler, Robert. Sisters in Cinema. Variety. March 11, 2003.
- Merk, Ron. Be Your Own Distributor: If You Want Something Done Right..., Release Print, April 2002
- "The Innovators - Featuring 117 Gay and Lesbian Trend-Breakers: Yvonne Welbon" The Advocate. August 14, 2001
- Juhasz, Alexandra - Yvonne Welbon. Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
- "She Said Cinema: Yvonne Welbon," broadcast on the Sundance Channel, April 2001
- Stein, Rob. "Living With Pride," In The Life, #904, broadcast on PBS, April/May 2000
- Raab, Barbara. "The Book of Ruth," The Advocate, April 11, 2000
- Graham, Renee. "Life in the Pop Lane: Inspiring 'Pride' Depicts Life of Oldest Black Lesbian," The Boston Globe, April 11, 2000
- Wisco, Albert. "Yvonne Welbon at the Toronto Film Festival." Studio2, TV Ontario, broadcast November 12, 1999
- Willis, Holly. "Fifty Creatives to Watch." Variety, August 23–29, 1999
- Shen, Ted. "Film Explores Pride, Prejudice of a Lifestyle." The Chicago Tribune, August 26, 1999
- Willis, Holly. "Twenty-Five New Faces of Indie Film." Filmmaker, Summer 1998
- Redding, Judith M. and Victoria A. Brownworth "Yvonne Welbon: Memory." Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors, Seattle,WA: Seal Press, 1997, pp. 112 – 116.
- Walker, Cary. "Rethinking the Past: Learning to Question Mainstream Perceptions" Focus, Vol. XVII, 1997, pp. 13–22.
- Carter, Tammy."Soul Searching in the Far East." Times-Picayune, (New Orleans) July 28, 1996.
- Mura, David. "Alternative Gazes." New Observer, (Philadelphia, PA), July 17, 1996.
- Scott, Tony. "P.O.V. Remembering Wei Yi-fang..." Variety, July 29, 1996,
- Shen, Ted. "Reel Life: The Kindness of Strangers," The Reader, February 2, 1996.
- Miller, Cheryl. "In The Life: New Works by Black Lesbian Filmmakers." Hot Wire Vol 8, No. 3, September 1992.
References
- ^ http://www.sistersincinema.com/
- ^ http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c607.shtml
- ^ http://www.cheryldunye.com/
- ^ http://www.chimpanzeeproductions.com/home.html
- ^ http://www.catherinecrouch.com/
- ^ http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~ajuhasz/scale/index.html
- ^ http://www.garbagerevolution.com/
- ^ http://www.waterfrontmovie.com/
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