Portraits & Testimonies #1 - #6, (ongoing series) 2004-2006 (USA)

Portraits & Testimonies #1: One Minute Interview (2004)

• Aarau One Minute Film Festival, Aarau Switzerland, August 2005
• Amok-imation Tour: 9th MadCat Women's International Festival Tour, USA, 2006
  • College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
  • Columbia College, Chicago, IL
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  • Micro Cinema Club, Memphis, TN
  • Penn State University, University Park, PA
  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
  • Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  • Stetson University, DeLand, FL
  • UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
  • University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
  • Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
• Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, OH, April/May 2005 (click here to visit)
• Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, March 2005 (click here to visit)
• Bush Artist Summit, St. Paul, MN, October 2007
• 18th Dallas Video Festival, Dallas Texas, August 2005
• Detroit Film Center, Boxcar Series, April 2005 (click here to visit)
• Eksperimento 5, Manila, Philippines, Sept 2005
• Extra Short Film Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia, May 2005
• Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, March 2005 (click here to visit)
• Gimli Film Festival, Gimli Manitoba, Canada, July 2005
• Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, April 2005 (click here to visit)
• Images Mini Festival for Children, Toronto, Canada, April, 2005 (click here to visit)
• Iowa City International Documentary Festival, IA, April 2005 (click here to visit)
• L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2005
• 9th MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, Nov 2005
• Moondance International Film Festival, Semifinalist, Boulder, Co, May 2005
• Package Deals Tour: "Cold Hearts Revisited", 2007
  • Queensland Art Gallery, GoMA, Australian Cinémathèque, May 2008
  • Detroit Film Center, June 2007
  • Kendall Square Theatre, Boston MA, July 2007
  • Rotunda Cinematheque, Baltimore MD, October 2007
  • Scandinavia House, New York City, April 2007
• Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA, November 2005
• Walker Art Center: Women with Vision, Minneapolis, May 2005 (click here to visit)
• Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI, April 2005 (click here to visit)
  • Best Animated Short, Student Shorts Competition

Portraits & Testimonies #2: David Nickel (2005)

• Bush Artist Summit, St. Paul, MN, October 2007
• Forx Film Festival, Grand Forks, ND, 2006
• National Film Archive of Iceland (Kvikmyndasafn Íslands): permanent collection, 2006
• Package Deals Tour: "Cold Hearts Revisited", 2007
  • Queensland Art Gallery, GoMA, Australian Cinémathèque, May 2008
  • Detroit Film Center, June 2007
  • Kendall Square Theatre, Boston MA, July 2007
  • Rotunda Cinematheque, Baltimore MD, October 2007
  • Scandinavia House, New York City, April 2007
• Skaftfell Menningarmiðstöð (Skaftfell Culture House), Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, May 2006

Portraits & Testimonies #3: Cris Siqueira (2005)

• Aarau One Minute Film Festival, Aarau Switzerland, August 2007
• Bush Artist Summit, St. Paul, MN, October 2007
• Forx Film Festival, Grand Forks, ND, 2006
• I.D. Docs Tour: 11th MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Tour, 2008
  • UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Feb 2008
  • Union Theatre, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 2008
  • Minnesota State University Moorhead, April 2008
  • Bowling Green State University, Ohio, April 2008
  • Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 2008
  • Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL, April 2008
  • College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, May 2008
• Chico State University, Chico, CA, September 2008
• Iowa City Experimental Film Festival, IA, October 2007
• 11th MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, September 2007
• Moving Words, Moving Pictures: An Evening of Film & Music, MN, October 2007
• National Film Archive of Iceland (Kvikmyndasafn Íslands): permanent collection, 2006
• Package Deals Tour: "Cold Hearts Revisited", 2007
  • Queensland Art Gallery, GoMA, Australian Cinémathèque, May 2008
  • Detoit Film Center, June 2007
  • Kendall Square Theatre, Boston, MA, July 2007
  • Rotunda Cinematheque, Baltimore, MD, October 2007
  • Scandinavia House, New York City, April 2007
• Skaftfell Menningarmiðstöð (Skaftfell Culture House), Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, May 2006
• South Dakota Film Festival, Aberdeen SD, September 2007
• Walker Art Center: Women with Vision, Minneapolis, MN, 2007

Portraits & Testimonies #4: Mark Borchardt (2005)

• Bush Artist Summit, St. Paul, MN, October 2007
• Forx Film Festival, Grand Forks, ND, 2006
• National Film Archive of Iceland (Kvikmyndasafn Íslands): permanent collection, 2006
• Skaftfell Menningarmiðstöð (Skaftfell Culture House), Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, May 2006

Portraits & Testimonies #5: Mike Schank (2005)

• Bush Artist Summit, St. Paul, MN, October 2007
• Forx Film Festival, Grand Forks, ND, 2006
• National Film Archive of Iceland (Kvikmyndasafn Íslands): permanent collection, 2006
• Skaftfell Menningarmiðstöð (Skaftfell Culture House), Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, May 2006

Portraits & Testimonies #6: Mae Meier (2006)

• Aarau One Minute, Aarau Switzerland, August 2007
• Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ, 2007
  • Director's Citation, Honorable Mention
• Bush Artist Summit, St. Paul, MN, October 2007
• Fargo Winter Carnival, Fargo, ND, 2007
• Forx Film Festival, Grand Forks, ND, 2006
• Gimli Film Festival, Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, June 2007
• Images Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007
• Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, IA, 2007
• National Film Archive of Iceland (Kvikmyndasafn Íslands): permanent collection, 2006
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, September 2007
• Skaftfell Menningarmiðstöð (Skaftfell Culture House), Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, May 2006
• South Dakota Film Festival, Aberdeen SD, September 2007
• UFVA Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, 2008
  

Summertime, 2006 (Iceland)

• Sjónvarpið, RUV Icelandic National Television Broadcast, Iceland, May 2006

The Art of Effort, 2005 (Israel)

• Delta International Film & Video Festival, Cleveland, MS, 2007
• Detroit Docs International Film Festival, October 2007
• Fargo Winter Carnival, Fargo, ND, 2007
• Forx Film Festival, Grand Forks, ND, 2006
• Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, IA, 2007
• PA Festival of Films, Pennsylvania Film Institute, 2007
• South Dakota Film Festival, Aberdeen SD, September 2007
• Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI, 2007

For the Children, 2005 (Israel)

• Forx Film Festival, Grand Forks, ND, 2006

Landslag, 2004 (Iceland)

• National Film Archive of Iceland (Kvikmyndasafn Íslands): permanent collection, 2006
• 43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2005
• Griot Editorial Best Editing Award
• Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, OH, April/May 2005 (click here to visit)
• Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, March 2005 (click here to visit)
  • Honorable Mention Experimental Film
• Chlotrudis Short Film Festival, Brookline, MA, Oct 2005
• Chlotrudis Shorts Redux, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA, Feb 2006
• Detroit Film Center, Boxcar Series, April 2005 (click here to visit)
  • Best of Boxcar Collection, 1st Annual DVD
• Eksperimento 5, Manila, Philippines, Sept 2005
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck Germany, April 2005
• Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, March 2005
• Gimli Film Festival, Gimli Manitoba, Canada, July 2005
• Iowa City International Documentary Festival, IA, April 2005 (click here to visit)
  • Kodak Vision Award
• L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2005
• 9th MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2005
• Milwaukee International Film Festival, Midwest Filmmakers Competition, 2006
• Moondance International Film Festival, Boulder, CO, May 2005
  • Moodance Calypso Award
• Package Deals: "Cold Hearts: Iceland" Premiere, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY, April 2006
• Package Deals Tour: "Cold Hearts: Iceland", 2006-2007
  • AS220, Providence, RI, July 2006
  • Alamo Drafthouse, Austin, TX, January 2007
  • Allmanna Galleriet 925, Stockholm, Sweden, December 2006
  • Antimatter Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, September 2006
  • Ashdod Film and Music Festival, Ashdod, Israel, 2007
  • Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City, March/April 2007
  • Croatian Film Association Cinema, Zagreb, Croatia, October 2006
  • Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX, August 2006
  • Detroit Film Center, Detroit, MI, September 2006
  • Duchess Presents, Chicago, IL, July 2006
  • Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club, Memphis, TN, September 2006
  • Kendall Square Theatre, Boston, MA, July 2007
  • Queensland Art Gallery, GoMA, Australian Cinémathèque, May 2008
  • The Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia, PA, October 2006
  • Roxy Bar & Screen, London, England, August 2006
    
  • Short Cuts Film Club, Visby, Sweden, April 2007
  • Sound Unseen Music + Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN, August 2006
  • The Varsity, Seattle, WA, November 2006
    
  • Zeitgeist Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, June 2006
• Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA, Nov 2005
• 32nd Student Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
  • National Finalist & Regional Winner : Alternative Film
• Taste of Iceland Film Festival, Seattle, WA, November 2006
• Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI, April 2005 (click here to visit)
• Women Without Borders Festival, Union Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, March 2006
  

The Sleeper, 2003 (USA)

• Promotional video for Milwaukee Public School: Garden Homes Montessori School.

Low Grade Genius, 2002 (USA)

• Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, 2003

Fargo Street Hawks, 2001 (USA)

• Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, 2003
• Seawhores Tour, USA, 2002-2003
• Fargo Winter Carnival, Fargo, ND, 2002

Cemanahuac, 2000 (Mexico)

• Promotional video for Cemanahuac Language School in Cuernavaca Mexico.

The F.U.P. is Forming, 1999 (USA)

• Fargo Winter Carnival, Fargo, ND, 2002
• Gallery Geysir, Reykjavik Iceland, 2000
• Trentino Film Festival, Fargo, ND, 2000
  

Assistant Professor of Film: Minnesota State University Moorhead, 2006 - Present

Department Chair : Minnesota State University Moorhead, Film Studies Dept., 2008 - Present

Independent Filmmaker & Video Artist, 1999 - Present

Adjudicator: Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, 2007

• 2008 Media Arts Panel, Maryland State Arts Council
• 2008 Media Arts Panel, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
• 2008 Media Arts, Delaware Division of the Arts

Instructor: Grunnskóli Hofsós, Iceland, Video Production, Spring 2006

Filmmaker: Helen Bader Foundation & UWM, 2005

Lecturer: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Film Department, 2004

Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Film Department, 2003-2005

Art Department Production Unit : Studios USA Television, New York, NY, 2002-2003

• Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Freelance, Minneapolis, MN, 2001-2002

• Not Another Hollywood Film: No Time for Cold Feet (Documentary Feature)
• Comedy Central Productions: Let's Bowl! (Television Series)
• Twist Productions (Television commercials)
  

University of Minnesota, 2002
BIS - Film Studies, Film Production, Icelandic Language & Culture

Minneapolis Community Technical College, 2002
AS - Filmmaking

Artist Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2009
YWCA Woman of the Year in Education, “Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women”, 2008
Excellence Award: Excellence in Service to the Community from MSUM Academic Affairs, 2008
Superwoman Award, Annual Rusty Awards, presented by MSUM Cinethusiast students, 2008
Bush Artist Fellow, 2007
Faculty Grant, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 2007
Fulbright Scholar, Iceland, 2005-2006
Artist Residency, Skaftfell Culture House, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, 2006
Eastman Product Grant, Eastman Kodak Company, 2004-2005
Chancellor's Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2003-2005
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2003-2005
IRSEP Scholar to Iceland, University of Minnesota, 2000-2001

University Film & Video Association, Active Member, 2005 - Present
Fulbright Alumni Association, Active Member, 2006-Present

Apple Certified Pro, Final Cut Pro 6 Level 1 Certification, 2008

TOCAR Academic Team (Training Our Campuses Against Racism), MSUM: 2008 – Present
Women Studies Program Committee, MSUM, 2007-Present
Women Studies Associated Faculty Member, MSUM, 2007 - Present
Graduate Faculty Member, MSUM, 2008 – 2014 approved appointment
Instructional Technology Advisory Committee, MSUM, 2007-Present
Search Committee Chair, Film Production Faculty, 2008
Search Committee Chair, Film History/Criticism Faculty, 2008
Search Committee Member, Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities, 2008
Published Article: University of Iceland, Office of International Education Newsletter, May 2006
Black & Gold Committee, UWM Peck School of the Arts, 2004-2005

Fargo Film Festival, Co-Chair, 2007 - Present
Fargo Film Festival, Experimental Jury Chair, 2006 - Present
Icelandic Klub of Fargo/Moorhead, Active Member, 2008 – Present
Fargo Marathon (Half Marathon Run), KVLY “Run for the Children” 2008
UFVA Annual Conference, Formal Screening Respondent, 2008
Nike+ Women’s Half Marathon, for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 2008
Fargo Film Festival: Animation Jury Chair, 2006 – 2008
Panelist, "Illuminating Women", Fargo Film Festival (with Judy Irola, Mary Trunk & Melody Gilbert), 2007
Workshop Leader: Expanding Your Horizons Conference for Young Women Grades 7-9, April 2007
Nike+ Women’s Half Marathon, for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 2007
Habitat for Humanity, documentary videographer, 2006
Milwaukee International Film Festival: Mid by Midwest Features Juror, 2004

Cellist: 1990-Present
Fine Woodworking Apprentice, Fillingham Art Furniture Design, 2003-2004
Monotype Printmaker, when able to access a press, 1995, 2004-2005
Short Film Assistance, DP, AC, Sound, Gaffer, Actress, various