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DR. YVONNE WELBON

Dr. Yvonne Welbon has produced and distributed more than 20 films, including Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 (winner of 10 best documentary awards, including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary), The New Black (about the fight for marriage equality in the African American community directed by Yoruba Richen), and Sisters in Cinema (a documentary on the history of black women feature-film directors). Her films have screened on HBO, BET, PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel, as well as at more than 100 film festivals around the world. 

She is currently developing the Sisters in the Life web-based online community-building project which will include a book (under contract with Duke University Press), a documentary film, an archive, and a mobile app. Her freelance-producer projects have included Zeinabu irene Davis's Sundance feature Compensation, Cheryl Dunye's HBO film Stranger Inside, and Catherine Crouch's directorial debut Stray Dogs starring Guinevere Turner. Originally from Chicago, Dr. Welbon received an undergrad degree in history from Vassar. She then spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin, and founded/published a premiere arts magazine. She returned to the U.S. and completed an M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Dr. Welbon is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. She has taught at University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and chaired the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Bennett College for Women as a tenured associate professor. She is currently interim creative director at Chicken & Egg Pictures in Brooklyn, New York. Website: http://chickeneggpics.org/about/


MARCH 16-17, 2018
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