Melody Gilbert

Melody Gilbert
Melody Gilbert
Residence St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Occupation Independent documentary film director

Melody Gilbert is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker, educator and journalist from St. Paul, Minnesota now stationed in Minneapolis.[1][2][3][4][5] She is co-founder of Darn Good Documentaries, and operates her own independent film production company, Frozen Feet Films.[6]

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Background

Gilbert has worked at television stations in Washington, D.C, New York, Wisconsin, California, Florida and Minnesota, including Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), KSTP-TV and WCCO-TV.[6] She taught broadcast journalism and documentary production at the University of Minnesota,[7] and is currently a visiting professor in Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College. She is an advisory board member of IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts, was a founding member of Minnesota Women in Film and Television, and is founder and President of Minnesota DocuClub.[6]

Partial filmography

  • Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story (2008)
  • Urban Explorers (2007)
  • A Life Without Pain (2005)
  • Whole (2003)
  • Married at the Mall (2002)

Awards and recognition

Gilbert received regional Emmys as producer on Our Bodies/Ourselves (2000) (TPT[disambiguation needed ]),[7] and for Battered Lives (1996) (WCCO[disambiguation needed ]). She received the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) national award for best series for Defying Tradition: Hmong Teen Brides. Her short documentary Jamie Butcher Dies at Home was shown on ABC's Prime Time Live. She has also won a national award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) for Toxic testing, a short documentary about how the U.S. government sprayed citizens of Minneapolis with toxic chemicals in the 1950s. The documentary prompted an investigation led by the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone.

Additional sources

  • eFilmCritic interview, "SXSW '05 Interview: 'A Life Without Pain' Director Melody Gilbert"[8]
  • Rift Magazine, "Melody Gilbert - Documentary Filmmaker"[9]
  • Minnesota Public Radio, "Melody Gilbert's trip 'Into the Darkness'"[10]

References

  1. ^ Maerz, Melissa (September 10, 2003). "Final Cut Pro: With 'Whole,' Twin Cities-based filmaker Melody Gilbert discovers less is more". citypages.com (Citypages). http://www.citypages.com/2003-09-10/news/final-cut-pro&page=59. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  2. ^ Kerr, Euan (March 16, 2007). "Melody Gilbert's trip "Into the Darkness"". Minnesota Public Radio. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/16/urbanexplorers/. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  3. ^ Cisar, Katjusa (March 19, 2008). "WFF2008: Interview with "Urban Explorers" filmmaker Melody Gilbert". dane101.com. http://www.dane101.com/arts/2008/03/19/wff2008_interview_with_urban_explorers_filmmaker_melody_gilbert. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  4. ^ "Melody Gilbert". Minnesota Stories. March 3, 2006. http://www.mnstories.com/archives/2006/03/melody_gilbert.html. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  5. ^ "Iterview with Melody Gilbert". Film Click. 2008. http://www.filmclick.com/index.php?section=film.index&filmid=3051225213278. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  6. ^ a b c "Melody Gilbert official bio". Darn Good Documentaries. http://darngooddocs.com/who-we-are/melody-gilbert/. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  7. ^ a b Rasmussen, Brianne (November 3, 2000). "U journalism students fare well at first Minnesota Emmy Awards". Minnesota Daily. http://old.mndaily.com/articles/2000/11/03/14377. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 
  8. ^ Weinberg, Scott. "SXSW '05 Interview: 'A Life Without Pain' Director Melody Gilbert". eFilmCritic. http://efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=1373. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  9. ^ "Melody Gilbert - Documentary Filmmaker". Rift Magazine. February 4th, 2009. http://www.riftmagazine.com/?p=547. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  10. ^ Kerr, Euan (March 16, 2007). "Melody Gilbert's trip "Into the Darkness"". Minnesota Public Radio. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/03/16/urbanexplorers/. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 

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