CINE: 2009 Educational Advisory Board

Featured Advisor: Melinda Levin

Melinda Levin is a documentary filmmaker and Chair of the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of North Texas. Working primarily in the documentary mode, Levin has produced, directed, edited and shot documentaries in the U.S. and abroad, including North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Her works have screened at New York's Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Art Museum, The Society for Applied Anthropology, The American Anthropology Association, The Society for Cinema and Media Studies and The Human Rights in a Changing Society Conference in Israel, and have been broadcast on PBS and shown at various film festivals and galleries.

She is President of the University Film and Video Association, serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Film and Video, is an executive officer for the University Film and Video Foundation and serves as a North American Delegate to the International Association of Film and Television Schools in Belgium. She recently co-edited a special issue on film and anthropology for the Journal of Film and Video, and her book, Post: Theory and Technique of Digital, Nonlinear Motion Picture Editing, co-authored with Fred P. Watkins, was published by Allyn and Bacon/Longman Press.

Current and recent productions include "The Global Rivers Project", an international documentary about the Amazon, Danube, Mississippi, Rio Grande and Ganges rivers, a separate film entitled "Mekong: Sweet Serpent" shot in Thailand in 2008, and documentary on sustainable ranching and development in the American Southwest entitled "Grazed: Ranching, Water, and Open Space in the Era of Sub-division."

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