Michele Meek is a writer and filmmaker whose expertise has spanned the media, publishing and technology industries.
she pioneered the development of NewEnglandFilm.com, the premiere magazine and resource for independent filmmaking in the northeast in 1997. Currently she is publisher and board member of the nonprofit Independent Media Publications which has re-launched AIVF's The Independent film magazine.
She founded Little Plum Pictures and wrote and directed Red Sneakers, which premiered at the Woods Hole Film Festival in 2008 and received second place in the children's category at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. In addition, her most recent educational documentary Conversations with Women premiered in Boston and can be viewed on YouTube.
She received the Duprey Screenwriting Award for her short script One More Shot at Emerson College where she earned her MFA in writing. She co-produced the movie version of the script as part of the compilation video Boxer Shorts.
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Respected as a young entrepreneur and champion of independent film, she received the 2005 Baldwin Award for Alumni Recognition in Film & Video by Boston College and the 2000 Image Award for Vision and Excellence by Women in Film & Video New England.
Her entrepreneurial successes have been lauded in Inc. Magazine, National Public Radio, and The Boston Globe and she has spoken on numerous panels including the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, Convergence at Tribeca, Global Entertainment Network Summit, among others.
Over the years, she has guest-lectured at Boston College and Emerson College and has taught film and writing courses at Emerson College, Boston Film Video Foundation and Massachusetts College of Art. She has also served on numerous juries for film awards, festivals and screenwriting competitions.
She has written extensively on film and travel in leading publications such as MovieMaker Magazine, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, WHERE Magazine, Bonjour Paris and indieWIRE. Her poems have been published in the New Press Literary Quarterly, Hawaii Pacific Review, Stylus, and Beacon Street Review.