Bev Seckinger
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Bev Seckinger |
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Email: bsecking@email.arizona.edu |
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Beverly Seckinger is an independent producer based in Tucson, Arizona. She is Professor and Interim Director of the School of Media Arts at the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses in media production, documentary studies, and LGBT Studies. She is also a founding member of the university's Institute for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, and since 1993 has served as director of the Lesbian Looks Film & Video Series. Seckinger's diary/documentary Laramie Inside Out, an exploration of the ongoing reverberations in her hometown community of Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder, is licensed to American Public Television for broadcast on PBS affiliates. Her previous videotapes include Mommie Queerest, a comic short about mother/daughter conflicts over gender socialization; Bottoms Up and Alice Unplugged, experimental satires on lesbian life in the 90's, both co-directed with Joyan Saunders; Planet in My Pocket, a critique of consumer multiculturalism; and Letter From Morocco, a personal documentary about neo-colonial relations. Her work has been screened at international festivals in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. Seckinger was the recipient of a Media Arts Fellowship for 2002 from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She is currently in production on Hippie Family Values, a feature-length documentary that explores the historical and contemporary hippie counterculture of the southwest. The project is supported by an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and a Research Fellowship from the Hanson Film Institute. |
