EDUCATION:

Emerson College 1997
M.F.A. in Creative Writing
Thesis: Lizzie's Loves (Screenplay)

Boston College 1994
B.A. in English with Honors
Honors Thesis: The Divided Self: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Margaret Atwood

AWARDS:

2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival 2nd Place Award in Children's Film Category

2005 Baldwin Award for Alumni Recognition in Film & Video by Boston College

2000 Image Award for Vision and Excellence by Women in Film & Video, NE

1996 Best Video at the 1996 Temecula Valley Film Festival for Boxer Shorts

1996 Emerson College Duprey Best Screenplay Award for One More Shot 

WEB/BUSINESS:

Publisher/Founder of NewEnglandFilm.com, Boston, MA (1997-present)
Created the online magazine & resource NewEnglandFilm.com reaching 70,000 film and video makers
Oversees technical, design and editorial staff

Publisher of The Independent (2007-2009)
Led the re-launch of the 30-year publication The Independent (formerly The Independent Film & Video Monthly published by AIVF) online at www.independent-magazine.org
Managed editorial, technical and advertising staff

Project Director at Media Thinktank, Boston, MA (1995-2006)
Managed projects from start-to-finish, interacting with the client and team of developers
Worked with clients: VDay.org, CentralDispatch.com, Akamai Technologies, etc.

President/Founder of BuyIndies.com, Boston, MA (1999-2007)
Developed an online community for buying and selling independent, educational and hard-to-find films and videos that offered titles from over 1,000 film distributors and independent filmmakers

FILM:

Writer/Director of Red Sneakers, Providence, RI (2008)
Awarded 2nd Place in children’s category at Rhode Island International Film Festival in August 2008
Screened in 2008 at Woods Hole Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival

Director of Conversations with Women: Masturbation, Boston, MA (1998-2008)
Directed and edited an educational documentary with over 60,000 views on YouTube
Screened at Boston Film Night 2009

Director of The Missing Flinck, Boston, MA (2008)
Director of a miniDV mockumentary short for 48 Hour Film Project
Screened at Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, MA

Producer of 7 1/8, New York NY (2004)
Producer for 48 Hour Film Project miniDV short using Canon XL-1

Producer/Director of Media Action Project, Somerville MA (1997-1998)
Wrote, produced and edited a series of videos about domestic violence for the federal project

Writer/Co-Producer of Boxer Shorts, Boston MA (1996)
Co-wrote and co-produced award-winning hour-long video, Boxer Shorts

Script Reader at True Blue Productions, Universal Studios, Burbank, CA (1995)
Read incoming scripts, wrote synopses and analyses

TEACHING:

Writing the Short Film at Massachusetts College of Art

Expository Writing and Approaches to Essay Writing in the Writing, Literature and Publishing department of Emerson College

Video Production at Somerville & Malden Community Access TV Stations

Creating a Web Site and Creating an Online Magazine at Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston Center for Adult Education

How to Market Your Film at CineWomen New York

Guest Lecturer for Business of Independent Film at Emerson College and Filmmaking 1 at Boston College 

PUBLICATIONS:

Editor, The Independent’s Guide to Film Distributors
Edited the first edition of a book on film distribution for Independent Media Publications, Inc. in 2009 now available for sale on Amazon.com.

Writer, Editor and Publisher, The Independent
“Download This: The Future of Distribution,” “The Transformation of Television,” “No Ordinary Granny,” and other interviews and reports

Writer, Editor and Publisher, NewEnglandFilm.com
“How to Make a Short Film,” “How to Promote Your Film Online” and dozens of other filmmaker interviews, industry reports and festival coverage

Writer, Mondo Explorer
Comprehensive online travel guidebook for Paris

Writer, Bonjour Paris
“On Moving”: an article about moving to Paris

Writer, MovieMaker Magazine
Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Tobacco Addiction film review

Associate Editor, WHERE Magazine, Boston
Wrote numerous articles on travel and Boston for the leading visitor publication

Editor-in-Chief, The Heights
Wrote numerous articles and editorials for the Boston College newspaper and served as Editor-in-Chief in 1993

Additional Publications
Poems published in New Press Literary Quarterly, Hawaii Pacific Review, Stylus, Beacon Street Review

PANELS:

Led and participated on panels at National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture, Convergence at Tribeca, Global Entertainment Network Summit, Emerson College, Boston College, etc.

BOARDS:

Independent Media Publications (2007-present)
Women in Film Video New England Advisory Committee (2006-present) Coolidge Award Advisory Committee (2003-present)
Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers (2004-2005)
Massachusetts Media Alliance (1998-1999)

REFERENCES:  

Available upon request.