Shannon Silva, M.F.A.
2122 Shirley Road, Wilmington, NC 28405
319-541-3984 / E-mail: shannonsilvafilms@gmail.com
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Film & Video Production, University of Iowa, Spring 2006
B.F.A. Studio Art – Photography, Texas State University, Spring 1997
EMPLOYMENT
• Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Fall 2006-Current
Senior Seminar in Documentary, Experimental and Animation Production
Intermediate and Advanced Editing
Intermediate Experimental and Documentary Production
Introduction to Film and Video Production
Reel Girls: Media Literacy and Documentary Production for Young Girls
VISIONS - Film Festival and Film Scholars Conference
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Research Assistant, Rhetoric, University of Iowa, 2005-2006
Pre-production researcher for Black American Gothic, a feature length documentary which considers
reverse urban migration, a national demographic trend whereby under-privileged blacks move from
urban centers to rural towns, in this case, from Chicago to Iowa City.
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Graduate Student Instructor, Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, 2002-2005.
Materials of 16mm Film Production
Introduction to Modes of Film and Video
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Workshop Instructor, Austin Cinemaker Coop, Austin, TX 2000-2002
Basics of Super 8mm
Stop-Motion and Multi-plane Animation
Hand-Manipulated / Hand-Processed Filmmaking Techniques
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Screenplay Competition Director, Austin Film Festival, 1998
In charge or soliciting, receiving and cataloging 3600 scripts. Once the scripts were catalogued my
duties included finding and managing industry and peer script readers, overseeing the jurying
process, teaching reading workshops, notifying finalist, hosting jurors and finalist at the festival, and
distributing awards.
CURRENT WORKS IN PROGRESS
• Red (Director/Writer), currently in the screenwriting stage
An experimental, coming of age narrative about a young girl growing up in Lumberton, North
Carolina. The film is a poetic memory piece, set in 1942, and focuses on the daughter of a
sharecropper, her complicated relationship with her parents, and her love for her sister and softball.
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Poser (Producer, Unit Production Manager), in production
Directed by Natalie Lentz, Poser is a short, experimental music video that explores the idea of
trends, pop culture and personal identity.
RECENT FILM PROJECTS
• Cybergenesis (Producer), 2015
Directed by Andre Silva, Cybergenesis is a creatively crowdsourced short film, that imagines a
future creation myth, crafted by cyber consciousness from bits and pieces of humanity’s online
legacy.
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Freestyle (Producer/Unit Production Manager), 2014
Directed by Lexi Lefkowitz, Freestyle is a short narrative children’s film. Violet is an isolated, but
spunky, 7-year-old, who dances to her own drummer while trying to fit into a world she doesn’t
quite understand.
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It’s a Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of Girlhood (Director/Producer), 2012
Since the birth of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in 1987, the girls' tween market has evolved from
almost non-existent into a $43 billion-dollar-a-year money-making machine. Framed by the structure
of a faux interactive website for tween girls, It’s a Girl Thing speaks with consumer critics, tween
brand marketers, girls, moms, and educators to explore the seemingly benign cultural universe of
candy-coated, pastel-colored, hyper-commercialized girl culture (and the tween queen phenomenon)
to reveal the complex and contradictory messages directed at today’s young girls. Historical
research, playful reenactments and found footage allow the film to look closely, and critically, at the
tween market's evolution and the role of Disney and Nickelodeons’ tween queens (Mary-Kate and
Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Miley Cryus, Miranda Cosgrove, Kiki Palmer, Selena
Gomez, and more) in the market's explosion.
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JumpaJumpa (Director/Producer), Fall 2009
Shot on black and white, 16mm, hand-processed film, and vibrant, color, digital video Jumpajumpa
is a musical love letter to the filmmaker’s first-born child after years of dealing with infertility.
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To Bare or To Bush (Director/Producer), Spring 2009
There was a time when refusing to shave your legs was an act of rebellion, but oh how times have
changed. Keep an eye on the latest beauty rag and eventually you’ll be reading that there’s now a
big trend for 15-25 year old women to be completely bare “down there.” With great sincerity, many
twenty-something women are claiming cleanliness/tidiness and yes, liberation, as their inspiration
for shaving or waxing their pubic areas. But is this being bare down there, just another attempt to
keep women in a childlike, youthful state? Could it be yet another damaging trend that only
encourages more body disorders? Or, on the flip side, is there a line between shaving your legs,
getting a bikini wax and just simply going all the way? And who’s got the right to say how far is too
far? In this short film, a collage of women’s voices (ages 20-55) express their opinions, concerns,
experiences, and amusement with the debate of whether or not there’s any harm in baring the bush.
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29 Places I Once Called Home (Director/Producer), Summer 2006
From motels and trailer parks along the east coast to a ranch house in suburban, small town Texas,
this 20-minute, experimental documentary utilizes super 8mm and 16mm footage along with family
interviews to explore the multi-layered connections between poverty, frequent relocation, substance
abuse, family violence and memory instability. Through the well-intentioned, but still unreliable,
voices of those closest to her as a child, the filmmaker attempts to wrangle a 'truth', any 'truth', out of
their stories in hopes of supplementing her spotty memories and thus finding a way to finally own
the elusive story of her childhood.
COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY AND JURIED FESTIVALS AND CONFERENCE SCREENINGS Director/Producer (*unless otherwise noted)
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Cybergenesis – Experimental Animation (Producer, Actress, 2015)
o Black Maria Film Festival – Touring, 2015
o FLEXFest – Gainsville, FL, February 2015
o Atlanta Film Festival – Atlanta, GA, March 2015
o Athens International Film + Video Film Festival – Athens, OH, April 2015
o Humboldt Film Festival – Humboldt, CA, April 2015
o Ann Arbor Expanding Frames (new media program at Ann Arbor Film Festival) – Ann
Arbor, MI, April 2015
o Trenton Film Festival – Trenton, NJ, June 2015
o Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN, August 2015
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Freestyle, Narrative short, 2013 (Producer/Unit Production Manager)
o Central Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL, July 2014
o Delta International Film Festival, Cleveland, MS, April 2014
o Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH, April 2014
o Route 66 Film Festival – Springfield, IL, April 2014
o Mill Valley Film Festival – San Rafael, CA, October 2014
o Tacoma Film Festival – Tacoma, WA, October 2014
o St. John’s Women’s Film Festival – St. Johns, Newfoundland, October 2014
o Atlanta Undeground Film Festival – Atlanta, GA, October 2014
o Dallas Video Festival – Dallas, TX, October 2014
o Silver Springs International Film Festival – Ocaloa, FL, November 2014
o Cucalorus Film Festival – Wilmington, NC, November 2014
o Citizen Jane Film Festival – Columbia, MO, November 2014
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It’s A Girl Thing: Tween Queens and the Commodification of Girlhood, Documentary Feature, 2012
o ISA XVIII World Congress of Sociology Conference, Yokohama, Japan, July 2014
o 77th Annual Southern Sociology Conference, Charlotte, NC, April 2014
o Child and Teen Consumption Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2014
o North American Conference of the Association of Consumer Research, Chicago, IL, October 2013
o Popular Culture Association in the South and American Culture Association in the South Conference,
Savannah, GA, October 2013
o S.U.R.G.E Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA April 2013
o Southeastern Women’s Sociology Association Conference, Greensboro, NC April 2013
o Artivist Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA Nov 2012
o Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC Nov 2012
o St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, St. Johns, NL, CA Oct 2012
o LA Femme Film Festival, Beverly Hills, CA Oct 2012
o Chicago International Social Change, Chicago, IL Oct 2012
o Docutah, St. George, UT Sept 2012
o Central Florida, Orlando, FL Sept 2012
o Phildelphia Independent Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA June 2012
o Twin Rivers, Asheville, NC May 2012
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Jumpajumpa, Experimental Documentary short, 2009
o Praxis Film Festival, Goldsboro, NC Jan 2012
o North Carolina Family Film Festival, Winton, NC July 2011
o Humboldt Film Festival, Arcata, CA April 2010
o Athens International Film + Video Fest, Athens, OH April 2010
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Too Bare or Too Bush, Experimental Documentary short, 2009
o Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, GA August 2010
o Athens International Film + Video Fest, Athens, OH April 2010
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Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX Nov 2009
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC Nov 2009
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Ichthyopolis, Animated short, Spring 2008 (*Producer/Co-Writer/LeadActress)
o Tar Heel Shorties, Pittsboro, NC April 2011
o Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Tampa, FL April 2010
o Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC April 2010
o Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, GA Aug 2009
o Arkansas Underground Film Fest, Hot Springs, AR Jul 2009
o Athens International Film + Video Fest, Athens, OH May 2009
o Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD May 2009
o Backup Film Festival, Weimar, GERMANY May 2009
o Next Frame Film Festival, Touring, 2009
o James River Film Festival, Richmond, VA Apr 2009
o Humboldt Film Festival, Arcata, CA Apr 2009
o Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI Mar 2009
o FLEX (Florida Experimental) Film Fest, Gainsville, FL Jan 2009
o New Genre Festival, Tulsa, OK Jan 2009
o Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Touring 2009
o Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX Nov 2008
o Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC Nov 2008
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29 Places I Once Called Home, Experimental Documentary, 20 min., Super 8/16mm/Digital Video, 2006
o Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC November 2007
o Rural Route at Anthology Archives, New York, NY July 2007
o Kozienalia 2007, Lublin, Poland May 2007
o University of Tennessee School of Art, Knoxville, TN May 2007
o Athens International Film + Video Fest, Athens, OH April 2007
o Iowa City Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA April 2007
o Hearts and Minds Film Festival, Wilmington, DE March 2007
o FLEX ’06: Florida Exp Film Festival, Gainesville, FL November 2006
o International Diversity Film Market, Washington, DC September 2006
o Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX August 2006
o UFVA: Next Frame Film Fest, Los Angeles, CA August 2006
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And Happiness Everywhere, Experimental Documentary, 8 min., Super 8/16mm/ Digital Video, 2004
o Michigan Womyn’s Film Festival, Walhalla, MI August 2008
o Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX Aug – Sept, 2006
o 11 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA October 2005
o Yes, Yes Allegiance, Olympia, WA October 2005
o Liberty Hall Comm. Center, Portland, OR October 2005
o Long Haul Info Shop, Berkeley, CA October 2005
o Artists’ Television Access, San Fracisco, CA October 2005
o Girl Fest, Honolulu, HI Sept. 2005
o Ms. Films Tour, Athens, GA June 2005
o Hi Mom! 8, Chapel Hill, NC June 2005
o Northern Lights Film Festival At Michigan Tech Univ., Houghton, MI March 2005
o Cans Film Festival at William & Mary College, Williamsburg, VA March 2005
o Women In the Dir. Chair, Chicago, IL March 2005
o Ms. Films Film Festival, Durham, NC February 2005
o Milwaukee International Festival, Milwaukee, WI October 2004
o Bearded Child, Grand Rapids, MN August 2004
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The Unbelievable Act of Totally Disappearing, 6 min., Experimental Documentary, 16mm, 2003
o Neuer Standort, Vienna, Austria November 2004
o 111Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA September 2004
o World Unity Festival, New York, NY September 2004
o Axiom Theatre, Houston, TX September 2004
o The Revival House, Westerly, RI September 2004
o Chaos Studios Art Space, Colorado Springs, CO September 2004
o Flicker Chapel Hill Unbelievable Act Chapel Hill, NC October 2003
o Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, New York, NY October 2003
o Flicker Austin, Austin, TX October 2003
o Light Reading, Iowa City, IA September 2003
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To the Dead Girl, Thank You, Experimental Documentary, 3 min., Digital Video, 2003
o Michigan Womyn’s Film Festival, Walhalla, MI August 2008
o Vinegar Hill Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA April 2005
o Iowa City International Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA April 2004
o Ms.Films Festival, Durham, NC February 2004
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Color Coded, Hand Manipulated Experimental, 4 min., Super 8, 2001
o Motion Showcase SXSW, Austin, TX March 2004
o Minecine, Shreveport, LA August 2002
o University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, TX April 2002
o Exploded Cinema, London, England, November 2001
o Wimbledon School of Art, London, England, November 2001
o Cinematexas, Austin, TX September 2001
o Flicker Austin, Austin, TX July 2001
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Peaceful Light, Hand Manipulated Experimental, 4 min., Super 8, 2001
o Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM April 2002
o Univ. of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX February 2002
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Syrup Dish, Experimental Animation, 4 min., Super 8, 2001
o Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX August 2002
o Bijou Theatre, Dallas, TX January 2002
o Flicker Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC December 2001
o Flicker Austin, Austin, TX May 2001
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I Let Go, Hand Painted Experimental, 4 min., Super 8, 2000
o Bijou Theatre, Dallas, TX January 2002
o Splice This!, Toronto, Canada June 2001
o Cinematexas, Austin, TX September 2000
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Infusion #2, Hand Manipulated Experimental, 3 min., 16mm, 2000
o Glitter Films #17, Raleigh, NC September 2001
o Flicker Austin, Austin TX October 2001
o Cinematexas, Austin, TX Sept. 2000
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11 Living Portraits, Experimental Documentary, 4 min., Super 8, 1998
o EVEO.com, On-Line Fest Spring 2000
ADDITIONAL FILMS WITHOUT JURIED SCREENINGS – Director/Producer (*unless otherwise noted)
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Letter to Brigid, Experimental Documentary, 15 min., Digital Video, 2006 (*Cinematographer)
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Whether She Was Still, Experimental Narrative, 4 min., Digital Video, 2002
9:34 AM, Experimental Documentary, 3 min., Digital Video, 2002
How I Chose To Remember It, Experimental Documentary, 4 min., Super 8, 2000
Round & Round, Hand Manipulated Experimental, 4 min., Super 8, 2000
Monster Bash, Narrative, 4 min., Super 8, 1999
Ink Sonatina, Hand Manipulated Experimental, 3 min., Super 8, 1999
Like Moths to the Flame, Hand Manipulated Experimental, 3 min., Super 8, 1999
The Other Side of the River, Hand Processed Experimental, 3 min., Super 8, 1999
Guilty, Narrative, 4 min., Super 8, 1998
LIVE PERMANCE FILM PROJECTS
• Frontera Fest Through A Clearing Austin, TX, February 2001 – Juried. Live 16mm film projection and dance
performance in a theater space.
DISTRIBUTED FILM
• Monster Hunter, Narrative Feature, Asylum Home Entertainment, 88 minutes, 35mm, 2000 (*Associate Producer,
Production Coordinator, Casting Assistant)
INVITATIONAL SCREENINGS
• Humanites Screening of It’s A Girl Thing, Cape Fear Community College, October 2013.
• Girlhood Screening and Lecture, hosted by the UNCW Women’s Studies Resource Center, featuring
It’s a Girl Thing screening and panel discussion, followed by Sharon Lamb’s lecture on Packaging
Girlhood, Spring 2013.
• 29 Places I Once Called Home, presentation for the Sociology and Criminology Department on
poverty and displacement, Fall 2011
• 15-Year Work Retrospective and Sneak Peak of ‘It’s A Girl Thing’ Work-In-Progress, Cucalorus
Film Festival Summer Series, June 2011
• The Unbelievable Act of Totally Disappearing, Land, Landscape & Reflections on Home, University
of Iowa, November 2003
DVD COLLECTIONS
• The Unbelievable Act of Totally Disappearing, Microcinema’s Autumnal Edition, 2004
• Color Coded, The Best of Flicker Austin (Vol. 1), 2003
• Color Coded, and Syrup Dish, Austin Cinemaker Coop’s Best of 2001/2002
• I Let Go, Austin Cinemaker Coop’s: Splice of Life, The Very Best of 2000
THEORETICAL CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
• Shannon Silva, Susan Bullers, Mariana Johnson, Donna King, Jean Anne Sutherland (2011), “Reel
Girls Project: Teaching Media Literacy Through Film,” Public Sociology: Research, Action, and
Change, ed. Philip Nyden, Leslie Hossfeld, Gwen Nyden, Sage Publications.
• “Home Movies: Advertising, Everyday Tactics, and Obsolescence” (2005)
• “Buy, Buy Love – Buy, Buy Happiness: Identifying with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen” (2003)
ARTISTIC & RESEARCH AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS/GRANTS
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$3000 UNCW Summer Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award. Funded May 2014
Best Social Documentary, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. June 2012
$2000 Engaged Teaching Fellowship, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of North Carolina
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Wilmington. Funded August 2010
Iowa Arts Fellowship, University of Iowa, $17,000 stipend plus full tuition. Funded August 2003May 2004
SERVICE & TEACHING AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS/GRANTS
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$2000 College of Arts & Sciences Applied Learning Grant for the VISIONS Film Festival and
Conference project, University of North Carolina Wilmington, (2012-2013)
Nomination for Faculty of the Month, National Residence Hall Honorary. May 2012
$3000 College of Arts & Sciences Applied Learning Grant for the VISIONS Film Festival and
Conference project, University of North Carolina Wilmington, (2011-2012)
$2000 Year of the Arts & Humanities Grant, University of Iowa, IC Microcinema Series, 2004
$2000 Texas Arts Grant, Austin Cinemaker Coop, Southern Tour, 2001
OUTREACH/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS
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Wilmington Female Filmmakers’ Collective, Education and Workshop Coordinator (January 2015 –
present)
WilmFFilm is focused on empowering local female filmmakers through educational workshops, mentoring, collaborative film shoots, shared resources and biweekly salon style meetings. The group is diverse in its age, experience, economic and racial demographics. The Education and Workshop team is in charge of organizing/designing/teaching free, hands-­‐on workshops with local filmmakers to provide instruction for members who may not otherwise have access to these resources. Workshops have include: Sound Recording with Alex Markowski, Directing Actors with Erika Dunton, Script Breakdowns with Becca Ederrer, and Introduction to Adobe Premiere with Mariah, Audra and myself. The current number of women on our private facebook group is 240+. Active members now number over 50. •
VISIONS Film Festival and Film Scholars Conference, Festival Director (Fall 2006-present)
VISIONS is an international film festival and conference designed to showcase the outstanding
achievements of undergraduate filmmakers and scholars from UNCW and around the world. The
project combines a Film Conference that allows critical thinkers the chance to revel in the acute
arguments proffered by talented scholars, with a Film Festival that exhibits the aesthetic triumphs of
emerging filmmakers. Uniquely, VISIONS, under the supervision of a faculty supervisor, is
managed, coordinated and run by UNCW Film Studies majors taking the FST 492: VISIONS
Producing the Undergraduate Film Festival and Film Scholars Conference class, offered each spring
by the Film Studies department. The project brings undergraduate presenters from universities
around the world to the UNCW campus to interact with our students, present and discuss their work,
and build networking relationships during the two-day event.
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Guest Lecture, Watson School of Education, 200 participants. (October 2011). “Documentary
Filmmaking in the Classroom for Visual Storytelling, Team Building, Media Literacy/Critical
Thinking and New Technology,” Lecture at Fostering A Spirit of Innovation Professional Learning
Day. Two presentations to roughly 200 public school K-12 teachers from New Hanover and
surrounding counties.
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The Reel Girls Project, Founder, Co-Supervisor (Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
Under the supervision of four professors (from Film Studies, Women’s Studies and Sociology), the
Reel Girls project provides college women from UNCW with the opportunity to mentor twenty-five
7th & 8th grade girls from DC Virgo Middle School. The project gives UNCW students practice in
outreach, public relations, community service, teaching and event coordination. The semester long
preparations culminate in a three day workshop in which the DC Virgo middle school students learn
to become critical evaluators of media as they become technologically proficient at making films that
tell real stories from their own experience. Finally, the young filmmakers experience the premiere
of their films in true Hollywood style at UNCW’s Lumina Theatre. Following the films, the college
students moderate a Q&A with the filmmakers for parents, friends and guests.
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Iowa City Microcinema, Co-Founder/Coordinator (2004-2006)
This organization was dedicated to bringing visiting filmmakers and free filmmaking
workshops to the eastern Iowa public. Events and guests included: The annual 48-hour
video race, Alternative Distribution with Peripheral Produce Director Matt McCormick, and handprocessed,
cameraless filmmaking with David Gatten.
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Austin Cinemaker Coop, Marketing/Programming (1998-2001)
By providing community workshops in Super 8mm filmmaking as well as quarterly screenings of
members work, this non-profit organization focused on promoting film production, post- production
and exhibition as an affordable art form. The organization also toured much of the southern
United States exhibiting Super 8 film by members as well as teaching workshops in stop- motion
animation, cameraless filmmaking and micro/no-budget production.
SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
• “Reel Girls: Feminism, Mentoring and Outreach through Film.” South Eastern Women’s Studies
Association Conference. Charlotte, North Carolina, April 2008.
CURATORIAL/PROGRAMMING WORK
• Pre-Screening Committee, Cucalorus Film Festival, 2007-2011, 2014
• Programmer, Chateaubriand Shorts Block with work by Experimental Filmmakers: Louise Despont,
Becka Barker, Leslie Dektor, Diane Bonder, Sarah Wood and Penny Lane, Cucalorus 13, Fall 2007
• Host, Experimental Filmmaker Roger Beebe, UNCW Film Studies Department, Spring 2007
Coordinator/Host, Experimental Filmmaker Naomi Uman, Moviemakers and Scholars
Series/Women’s History Month, UNCW, Spring 2007
• Coordinator/Host, Experimental Filmmaker David Gatten, Moviemakers and Scholars Series,
UNCW, Spring 2007
• Coordinator/Host, Video Vlogging and Alternative Distribution, Moviemakers and Scholars Series
with Chuck Olsen and Jen Simmons, UNCW, Fall 2006
• Coordinator/Programmer/Moderator, Local Collage Filmmakers Panel featuring work by Lauren
Cook, Aaron Valdez and Sasha Waters, as part of the "Collage as Cultural Practice" Conference,
University of Iowa, Spring 2005
• Coordinator, Make-Your-Own-Adventure Documentary Festival, IC Microcinema in conjunction
with the Iowa City International Documentary Festival, 2005
• Coordinator, Collage Festival, IC Microcinema, 2005
• Coordinator, 24-Hour Iowa City Video Race, IC Microcinema, 2004
• Coordinator, Screening/Workshop with filmmaker Matt McCormick, IC Microcinema, 2004
• Coordinator, Screening/Workshop with filmmaker Mary Beth Reed, Light Reading, 2003
• Pre-Screening Committee, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2003
• Coordinator/Programmer, Austin Cinemaker Coop Southwest US Film Tour, 2002
• Coordinator, Screening/Workshop with filmmaker David Gatten, Austin Cinemaker Coop, 2000
• Coordinator, Screening/Workshop with filmmaker Willie Varela, Austin Cinemaker Coop, 1999
COMMITTEE/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
• University of North Carolina Wilmington, Film Studies Department
o Women’s Studies Resource Center Advisory Board member Fall 2014-present
o Visions Faculty Supervisor Fall 2006-Present
o Departmental Social Media Supervisor Fall 2014-present
o End of Semester Screening Committee, Fall 2008-Present
o Production Committee, Member, Fall 2006 – Present
o Center For Teaching Excellence Liaison, Fall 2013-Summer 2014
o Cultural Events, Committee Chair, Fall 2010 – Spring 2013
o Banner Carrier, CAS Commencement, Spring 2012
o Louisa May Alcott documentary presentation, Thalian Hall, Fall 2011
o Assessment Committee, Chair, Fall 2009- Fall 2010
o Faculty Senator, Film Studies, Fall 2009-Spring 2010
o Curriculum Committee, Member, Fall 2006-2008
o Special Project Committee: Cucalorus, Member, Fall 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
o Public Relations Committee, Spring 2006, 2007
o Search Committee, Narrative, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007
o UNCW College Day Presenter, “Hand-Painted Filmmaking,” Fall 2006
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University of Iowa
o CCL Faculty Meeting Graduate Student Representative, 2003-2004
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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Wilmington Female Filmmakers’ Collective, Founding Member, January 2015 – present
University Film & Video Association, Member, 2012-Present
Cucolarus Film Festival/Organization, Member, 2006-Present
14th Annual Cucalorus Film Festival, Pre-Screening Committee, 2008
1st Annual UNCW Environmental Film Festival, Faculty Supervisor, Spring 2008
UNCW Reel Girls, Faculty Supervisor, Spring 2008
13th Annual Cucalorus Film Festival, Pre-Screening Committee, 2007
UNCW Reel Girls, Faculty Supervisor, Spring 2007
University of Iowa Essay Award, Nominations Committee, Spring 2007
Iowa City Microcinema, Co-founder/Programmer-Coordinator/Board Member, 2003-2005
41st Ann Arbor Film Festival, Pre-Screening Committee, 2003
Austin Cinemaker Coop, Membership-Volunteer Director/Programming Committee/Tour
Coordinator, 1998-2001
Reel Women, Member/Volunteer, 1998-2000
4th Annual Cinematexas Film Festival, Program Synopsis Writer, 1999
Austin Heart of Film Festival, Screenplay Competition Director, 1998
Monster Hunter (35mm Feature, Asylum Home Entertainment), Associate Producer/Production
Coordinator, 1996-1998
Austin Film Society, Member/Volunteer, 1995-1998