Helen De Michiel

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Helen De Michiel
Born (1953-11-28) November 28, 1953 (age 70)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Director
Producer
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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.

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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]

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