Yvonne Welbon

출생 : 1967-04-21, Chicago, Illinois

약력

An award-winning independent filmmaker, originally from Chicago, Yvonne Welbon received a B.A. in history from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and at the age of 23, founded and published a premiere arts magazine with $300. She ran the magazine for five years. Welbon returned to the United States and enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an M.F.A. with a concentration in film and video and in 2001 a Ph.D. in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. Welbon has successfully produced and distributed over 20 films including Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis@ 100, winner of ten best documentary awards—including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary and Sisters in Cinema a documentary on the history of black women feature film directors. Her films have screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel, BET, HBO and in over one hundred film festivals around the world including Toronto, Berlin and Sundance. She is currently producing The New Black, a documentary directed by Yoruba Richen and her first trans-media project, Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of Out African American Lesbian Media-making (1986 – 2011), a web based online community building project that also includes a book of essays, a documentary, an archive and a mobile application. (8/14)

참여 작품

거침없이 당당하라
거침없이 당당하라
Executive Producer
두 명의 '블랙 라이브즈' 퀴어 운동가 자나에, 벨라가 시카고 경찰에 의해 살해된 두 젊은 흑인 레키아 보이드와 라쿠안 맥도널드에 대한 정의를 찾으려 하는 과정을 담았다. 그들의 목표는 이에 연루된 시 행정부와 로리 라이트풋이 이끄는 경찰 위원회에 진보적인 형사 사법 플랫폼을 제안하고 여성의 지도력을 높이는 것이다.​ (2021년 제23회 서울국제여성영화제) 는 '블랙 라이브스 매터(Black Lives Matter)' 운동에서 흑인 여성 퀴어 운동이 지닌 중요성을 드러낸다. 흑인 여성 퀴어 운동은 인종차별 반대 운동 안에서 남성 중심적인 위계와도 싸우면서 BLM의 문제의식이 다양한 정체성 및 소수자 정치로 확장되는 흐름에 있어 중요한 역할을 한다. 이 투쟁의 시간은 두 젊은 여성 자네이와 벨라를 중심으로 기록된다. 흑인-여성-퀴어로서의 경험은 경찰과 감옥으로 유지되는 지배적인 체제의 치안이 소수자 시민의 안전은커녕 그들에 대한 사회적 차별과 억압을 공고하게 만드는 장치임을 체득하도록 해 왔다. 래퍼 벨라는 투쟁의 시간을 담은 시를 읊고, 자네이는 학위 논문을 통해 차별이 중첩된 사회 구조 및 정책에 관해 비판한다. 두 여성들은 거리에서는 함께 분노하고, 각각 예술과 학문에 몸담고 있는 자신의 일을 갈고 닦는 데 고군분투한다. 이 여성들의 기록은 가족, 이웃, 단체, 동료 등과 보내는 공동체의 시간을 포함한다. 이 소수자 공동체 속에서 여성들은 자발적으로 서로를 보호하는 힘을 억압하는 사회 체제에 대한 비판적인 태도를 벼려 간다. 이들은 공동체의 건강을 해치면서 위로부터 시민을 통제하는 경찰과 감옥에 대항한다. 이 여성들은 흑인-여성-퀴어 공동체의 목소리로 “우리가 경찰이다”라고 외치면서 도시 공동체의 서로 보호하는 역량을 되찾는 운동을 거침없이 당당하게 이어간다. (2021년 제23회 서울국제여성영화제 /채희숙)
The New Black
The New Black
Producer
The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community's institutional pillar-the black church and reveals the Christian right wing's strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda. The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.
Sisters in Cinema
Sisters in Cinema
Writer
Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
Sisters in Cinema
Sisters in Cinema
Original Music Composer
Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
Sisters in Cinema
Sisters in Cinema
Producer
Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
Sisters in Cinema
Sisters in Cinema
Director
Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.
Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100
Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100
Director
The oldest known "out" African-American lesbian remembers ten colorful decades in this hour-long documentary, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1999. Born July 23, 1899, in Springfield, IL, Ruth Ellis spent most of her life in Detroit. A pioneering independent black businesswoman, she operated her own print shop until the age of 65. In the home she shared with Cecilene "Babe" Franklin, her partner of more than 30 years, she played host to innumerable gatherings of the city's African-American gays and lesbians in an age when segregation excluded them from white homosexual society. A participant in the civil rights movement and a witness of the riots that tore Detroit apart in the 1960s, Ellis later became an icon for, and active participant in, the city's multicultural lesbian and feminist community.
Compensation
Compensation
Producer
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.
Women of Vision
Women of Vision
Self
Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25. They are black, white, Puerto Rican, Yugoslavian, Asian American, biracial. They are straight, gay and bisexual. What they share is a need to express their own interpretations of what American culture is and could be and a belief that this work is made particularly powerful through the media.
Mother of the River
Mother of the River
Associate Producer
In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their friendship the young girl learns about independence, honor, humility and respect for others. MOTHER OF THE RIVER is a rare portrayal of slavery from a young woman's perspective.
Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself
Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself
Director
An Autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker’s six-year experience as an African American woman in Taiwan after college graduation. The highly original film recounts Welbon’s discovery, through another language and culture, of being respected for who she is, without the constant of American racism, and how it helped her achieve self-knowledge. Linking this story with that of earlier women in Welbon’s family, the richly textured memoir blends dramatic sequences with documentary footage.
Missing Relations
Missing Relations
Director
An experimental dramatic documentary which explores loss and denial in an African American family through the filmmaker's story of her kidnapped twin sisters, erased from family history for 24 years.
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
Writer
An interview with the filmmaker Julie Dash about her film training, vision and struggle to bring Daughters of the Dust to the American movie screen. Includes clips of Illusions and Diary of an African Nun.
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
Producer
An interview with the filmmaker Julie Dash about her film training, vision and struggle to bring Daughters of the Dust to the American movie screen. Includes clips of Illusions and Diary of an African Nun.
Sisters in the Life: First Love
Sisters in the Life: First Love
Director
A thirty-something Black lesbian reflects on falling for her best friend in junior high. Set in the 70s and 90s, this is a delightful tale of love and friendship.
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
Director
An interview with the filmmaker Julie Dash about her film training, vision and struggle to bring Daughters of the Dust to the American movie screen. Includes clips of Illusions and Diary of an African Nun.
Monique
Monique
Director
Using a childhood experience of racial bigotry at school, this film looks at the ways in which racism is ingrained in American society, even in the play of children. MONIQUE is a compelling exploration of identity and memory.