Helen De Michiel
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Helen De Michiel | |
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| Born | November 28, 1953 |
| Occupations | Director Producer Activist 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.
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] Lunch Love Community (2014), her transmedia episodic documentary co-directed with Sophie Constantinou, documents the evolution of school lunch reform in Berkeley.[6][7][8]
De Michiel was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 2001 to 2007.[9]
