Helen De Michiel

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.

Helen De Michiel
Born (1953-11-28) November 28, 1953
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Director
Producer
Activist
Author

Biography

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

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
  1. Thomas, Kevin (15 March 1996). "'Tarantella' Handles Ethnic Ties That Bind". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  2. "Turn Here Sweet Corn". pbs.org/. PBS. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  3. "The Listening Project". walkerart.org. Walker Art Museum. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  4. Hoopes, Laura. "The Gender Chip Project". Women in Science. Scitable. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  5. "The Gender Chip Project". Women Make Movies. Women Make Movies. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  6. Henry, Sarah. "Bay Area Bites". blogs.kqed.org/. KQED. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  7. "The Peabody Awards - George Foster Peabody Awards Board Members". Archived from the original on 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
  8. "President's Review and Annual Report 1994" (PDF). rockefellerfoundation.org. Rockefeller Foundation. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  9. "Bush Foundation". www.bushfoundation.org/. Bush Foundation. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  10. "Review Summary". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  11. Zimmerman, Patricia. "Helen De Michiel on New Nodes for Digital Futures". ithaca.edu/. Ithaca College. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
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