 An
Emmy award winner for her work on the
documentary Moving Stories from WTTW TV
(PBS) Chicago, Diane Zander is currently
pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts degree in
Film and Video Production at the University
of Texas at Austin under a continuing
fellowship. A summa cum laude graduate of
Northwestern University (Evanston,
Illinois), she studied Radio Television Film
with a minor in art history.
The majority of her documentary and
experimental work deals with gender issues
and how female identities and femininities
are constructed and complicated. Her film
and video work has been shown both at
festivals across the country, including
Women in the Directors' Chair in Chicago,
South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, the
Dallas Video Festival, and the Culture Under
Fire Festival in Kansas City. Her work has
also appeared on Image Union, a PBS showcase
in Chicago for independent film and video.
She has been invited to show her work and
speak about feminist documentary practice at
international academic conferences such as
the Visible Evidence Conference on
Documentary and Console ing Passions
Conference for Television, Video, and
Feminism, and the National Feminist Graduate
Student Conference. She has received grants
for her work from the Texas Council for the
Humanities, the Austin Film Society's Texas
Filmmakers' Production Fund, the Dallas
Chapter of Women in Film, and the Liberace
Foundation for the Performing and Visual
Arts. As a media educator, she teaches
production skills to children, teenagers,
and college students.
She has worked professionally as an
associate producer, writer, and editor for
WTTW TV (PBS) Chicago on the Emmy award
winning documentary Moving Stories; as a
video journalist for CNN Headline News; as a
producer and production assistant on
Weeknight Edition at KURT TV (PBS) Houston;
as a research assistant for CNN Presents; as
an editing engineer for Northwestern
University Media Services; as a production
assistant for Kartemquin Films on Hoop
Dreams Reunion; and as a production
assistant for Artbeat Chicago, Record Row:
Cradle of Rhythm and Blues, and Image Union,
all at WTTW TV (PBS) Chicago
|
Past Recipients